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Reading Time: 4 minutes Why 80% of data lakes fail and what you can do about it. The issues and implications of Brexit are all over the news … regionalism vs globalism, independence vs shared governance and regulation, closed vs open borders … and…
Reading Time: 2 minutes This topic would have seemed incongruous only a few years ago. After a rather long gestation period, data virtualization and its adoption worldwide have surged in recent years to reach enterprise maturity. Yet there is a lot of FUD (fear,…
Reading Time: 3 minutes One of the ways that you can tell that a concept or technology is gaining currency is that many people start interpreting or associating with it in their own way, sometimes in very, very different ways. Data virtualization is a…
Reading Time: 3 minutes I was on a recent visit to a major railroad and logistics company who is our customer. While at lunch with the chief IT architect discussing our ongoing project, he said with a twinkle in his eye:” I hope to…
Reading Time: 2 minutes I recently attended Business Technology Forum by Forrester Research in Florida. As the event title indicates business and technology cross-over more than ever, just as software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications have done for operations, and now self-service business intelligence (Self-Service BI) and…
Reading Time: 3 minutes I recently read an excellent article “A Strategist’s Guide to the Internet of Things” by Strategy & (formerly Booz & Company), which prompted me to think about what the Internet of Things for data strategists and data professionals. As we…
Reading Time: 3 minutes You’ve undoubtedly heard the (tired) definition of big data involving the three “Vs” for volume, variety, and velocity. Now there’s a growing movement to associate a fourth V-word with big data sets: virtualization. But what is data virtualization? For years,…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Real-world big data use cases have moved beyond “possibilities” to multiple use patterns including analytics and low-cost archival storage of large datasets. In all cases, big data is thought of in an ENTERPRISE sense, even if big data analytics that is performed…
Reading Time: 2 minutes While Big Data Analytics has become all the rage over the past few years, another technology also has entered the mainstream: Data Virtualization. Data Virtualization is the process of abstracting different data sources through a single data access layer which…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Most companies have inadvertently locked away the value of their enterprise data assets, because they can rarely harness the right information at the right time. When they finally do access information, it is often inaccurate, incomplete or unavailable. This is…
