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Ha! The memes great no doubt about it. Love how leader is only focuses on the cost of tooling. Very short sited in my opinion. If you turn the tools loose against the data available and allow your true Talent ( your associates ) drive the value streams. You can really drive value out of the data. Don’t get me wrong Splunk should not be your data lake. Although turning despairat data into doing is one of Splunks super powers in my opinion. I get it. When you have hundred of competing tools that are purpose fit. It does stand out and look expensive. But! Those tools can’t do what SPL does with wire speed data in my experience.

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A new Black-owned financial institution could emerge west of Texas! The investment group Redemption Holding Co. (RHC), led by former White House Policy Advisor Ashley D. Bell, wants to acquire Holladay Bank & Trust in Holladay, UT, per an outlet. If approved, the Utah financial institution will be renamed Redemption Bank and become the only Minority Depository Institution west of Texas. "All of us require a bank to operate, and the reality was there was no Black-owned bank that we could sit on top of to operate with the way we're currently constructed," Bell told The Sacramento Observer. Alongside Bell will be Dr. Bernice A. King, the youngest child of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. Per The Wall Street Journal, she will join the bank's advisory board and serve as the senior vice president for impact banking. Read more here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/g5FdWJSy #AFROTECH #Investmentbanking #Banking #BlackOwnedBank

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Great article on the importance of Black owned financial institutions.

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