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Reading Time: 4 minutes With so much valuable data potentially available, it can be frustrating for organizations to discover that they can’t easily work with it because it’s stuck in disconnected silos. Limited data access is a problem when organizations need timely, complete views…
Reading Time: 3 minutes The recently published The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Fabric, Q2 2018 highlights the need for an integrated infrastructure – the ‘fabric’ – to support your big data. In the headlong rush to create data lakes and other big data architectures, organizations…
Reading Time: 3 minutes The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect on May 25th, 2018, and all businesses that serve European Union customers will be required to comply. Companies that fall short of compliance with GDPR will be subject…
Reading Time: < 1 minute The success and survival of business is becoming increasingly tied to the way in which companies understand and harness the data that they have access to. In Bernard Marr’s article “What is Data Virtualization and Why Does It Matter?” he…
Reading Time: 2 minutes The big-data-world, it seems, is jumping on the data-virtualization-bandwagon. According to Gartner, “By 2018, organizations with data virtualization capabilities will spend 40% less on building and managing data integration processes for connecting distributed data assets.”1 This solidifies data virtualization as…
Reading Time: < 1 minute UPDATE: This event has now passed but you can watch all the sessions on-demand now by following this link. The second annual Fast Data Strategy Virtual Conference is just around the corner: Wednesday, March 29th in the Americas and Thursday,…
Reading Time: 2 minutes UPDATE: This event has now passed but you can watch all the sessions on-demand now by following this link. Last year we held the world’s first conference on fast data strategy, and it was an outstanding success. We presented over…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Challenges to Enterprise-wide Adoption of Big Data Technologies Lack of comprehensive strategic planning is proving to be the greatest impediment to enterprise-wide adoption of big data technologies. While organizations are quick to invest in new technologies like Hadoop cluster and…
