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Reading Time: 2 minutes In the software world, we constantly represent real phenomena in abstract terms, and this is no exception in the world of data storage. We say that data storage, like matter, adheres to the Law of Increments, which states that, according…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Data is at the center of every company. Through the information that is generated by a company’s processes on a daily basis, companies can improve decision-making capabilities now for better business results down the road. However, every day, companies generate…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Most organizations are moving their IT systems to the cloud. In most cases, they are performing these migrations to increase the scalability of both processing and storage, and generally to free the organization from the limitations of on-premises systems. However,…
Reading Time: 3 minutes We are always focused on making things “Go Fast” but how do we make sure we future proof our data architecture and ensure that we can “Go Far”? Technologies change constantly within organizations and having a flexible architecture is key….
Reading Time: 3 minutes During a recent house move I discovered an old notebook with metrics from when I was in the role of a Data Warehouse Project Manager and used to estimate data delivery projects. For the delivery a single data mart with…
Reading Time: 4 minutes The best technology acts without having to manage it, or worse, having to familiarize oneself with it more than it seems necessary. In some industrial sectors, this has already happened. We simply consume electricity, without being forced to know the…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Software systems designers often structure their thinking around the underlying functional and data/information components of their desired applications. This approach—analogous to the scientific method of breaking a system into its smallest sub-parts in order to understand how it works—forms the…
Reading Time: 7 minutes In the last few years, data virtualization technology has experienced tremendous growth, emerging as a key component for enabling modern data architectures such as the logical data warehouse, data fabric, and data mesh. Gartner recently named it “a must-have data…
Reading Time: 5 minutes Consider a business scenario in which a user wants to determine the sales per month at a product level, and the filter conditions vary for different cases and across different users (So it would require multiple ad hoc queries). If…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Agile processes and automation are on the rise, causing companies to increasingly seek data virtualization solutions, which offer several important benefits: First, maintenance is cheaper compared to traditional tools, and data virtualization, which does not rely on data replication, eliminates…
