In the pre-digital era, IT departments mastered a variety of technological approaches to extract value from data. Data warehouses, analytical platforms, and different types of databases filled data centres, accessing storage devices where records were safely preserved on disk for their historical value.

In-memory computing platform company, Hazelcast has unveiled Hazelcast Jet, said to be the only streaming engine with no external system dependencies. According to the company, the result is the industry’s fastest stream processing engine that dramatically simplifies implementation from the smallest to largest deployments.