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Reading Time: 5 minutes In my previous post, I described the data fabric architectural pattern. Before turning to the data lakehouse, let’s first look at what I mean by an architectural pattern. The Power of a Pattern An architectural pattern, or logical architecture, describes…
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you’ve decided to implement a data lake, you might want to keep Gartner’s assessment in mind, which is that about 80% of all data lakes projects will actually fail. Obviously, you want to be in that 20% that succeed….
Reading Time: 2 minutes Recently, we have seen the rise of new technologies like big data, the Internet of things (IoT), and data lakes. But we have not seen many developments in the way that data gets delivered. Modernizing the data architectures is the…
Reading Time: 5 minutes We are in the midst of a significant transformation in each and every sphere of business. We are witnessing an Industrial 4.0 revolution across the industrial sectors. The way products are getting manufactured is being transformed with automation, robotics, and…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Too often the design of new data architectures is based on old principles: they are still very data-store-centric. They consist of many physical data stores in which data is stored repeatedly and redundantly. Over time, new types of data stores,…
Reading Time: 4 minutes According to CIO magazine, the first chief data officer (CDO) was employed at Capital One in 2002, and since then the role has become widespread, driven by the recent explosion of big data. The CDO role has a variety of…
Reading Time: 4 minutes These days, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) seem to be everywhere around us, answering questions, designing components, and even driving cars. Can they also help with data virtualization? For sure. But first, let’s make sure that when we…
Reading Time: 6 minutes Across all vertical markets, organizations adopt data virtualization as a core part of their IT infrastructure because data is becoming more distributed, more heterogeneous, and larger in volume. The pressures on business to be more competitive are continually growing, so…
Reading Time: 4 minutes In many businesses today, data complexity is already a challenge with more and more data stores both on-premises and in the cloud as well as thousands of possible data sources. The days of just having a data warehouse and some…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Alice Well’s early successes as CIO at Advanced Banking Corporation (ABC) in solving the old problem of getting real-time data (Gaining Real Time Insight) to the call center and the newer opportunity presented by the data lake (A Warehouse in…
