Reading Time: 5 minutes Today, many applications call themselves “data catalogs.” The idea seems, on the face of it, easy to understand: a data catalog is simply a centralized inventory of the data assets within an organization. Data catalogs also seek to be the…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Many businesses are moving towards a cloud-based approach in terms of managing their data, but that doesn’t mean that incorporating the cloud into businesses is an easy process. Also, after moving to a cloud-based environment, many organizations realize that their…
Reading Time: 3 minutes MultiChoice Group is a media and entertainment giant from South Africa that provides satellite television service with brands such as DStv and GOtv. With its Showmax brand, it also operates in the online subscription video-on-demand segment and competes with international…
Reading Time: 4 minutes The amount of expanding volume and variety of data originating from various sources are a massive challenge for businesses. In attempts to overcome their big data challenges, organizations are exploring data lakes as repositories where huge volumes and varieties of…
Reading Time: 3 minutes In a previous post, I discussed the unbridled copying of data by IT and the new design principle called data minimization, and I said that it was time for data-on-demand architectures. In fact, the post was a plea for developing…
Reading Time: 4 minutes “Le roi est mort, vive le roi.” This phrase—the king is dead, long live the king—marks the transfer of power from one monarch to the next. In times of potentially troublesome change, the apparent paradox and inner poetry of these…
Reading Time: 4 minutes To understand how to accelerate and simplify cloud data integration and leverage cloud marketplaces, we first need to understand: What exactly is cloud data integration? It is nothing more than a consolidation of data from disparate data sources in which…
Reading Time: 3 minutes At the heart of every organization lies a data architecture, determining how data is accessed, organized, and used. For this reason, organizations must periodically revisit their data architectures, to ensure that they are aligned with current business goals. Here, as…
Reading Time: 2 minutes A recent post, on the cost and impact of persisted data, got me thinking: If data is the new oil, as some believe, then data virtualization is akin to the electrification of gas/petrol-powered cars. An Inconvenient Truth Cloud migration strategies,…
Reading Time: 2 minutes “Clouds in Africa only bring rain” – A former business partner said this to me about five years ago, before I worked at Denodo, about the future of cloud technology in Africa. Recently we held our first Denodo user group…
