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Intel has officially launched its 5th Gen Xeon CPU family codenamed Emerald Rapids, bringing higher performance & efficiency with lower TCO.

GeoParquet adds geospatial types to Apache Parquet to serve as an efficient cloud-native vector data format

SINGAPORE, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Veritas Technologies, a leader in multi-cloud data management, today announced it has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions for the 17th time.1Veritas believes this recognition further validates the company's investment and commitment to delivering a rapid pace of innovation and the most advanced solutions to protect and recover the critical data of the world's largest enterprises. E...

Since I started working at Planet, I kept hearing about Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs (COGs). My colleague Chris Holmes even wrote a post explaining what they are and how they’re useful. I decided to implement a Go library to be able to work with COGs. Much of Planet’s satellite imagery is in the GeoTIFF format, including this nice image of Los Angeles from our February 2018 Global Basemap: An image of Los Angeles from Planet’s February 2018 Basemap. ©2018 Planet Labs Inc, CC BY-SA 4.0. As a ...

Light Every Night – New nighttime light data set and tools for development Illustration of a satellite view of Planet Earth. ©Rakchai Duangdee/Shutterstock The power was out again. Sitting in a darkened room in western Senegal, the man talked happily about how the arrival of electricity a decade ago had transformed life in the village of Gaouane. But becoming accustomed to reliable electricity had an unexpected downside: “Now when the power goes out, it feels even darker than before we had...