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Reading Time: 3 minutesBy Barry Devlin “I want it all, and I want it now,” sang Freddie Mercury in “I Want It All.” Today’s businesspeople, it turns out, feel just the same way. The pace of business has ramped up dramatically over the…
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the Bronze age, recycling became large-scale, opening the doors to cross-border trade and collaboration across nations. Unwanted bronze implements were melted down and poured into a mold to make new implements, and thus the manufacturing technology of the bronze…
Reading Time: 6 minutesAcross 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: 3 minutesIn all of my conversations about data, the same words and phrases keep coming up – agility, performance, security, governance, the heterogeneity of data sources (data silos), and ease of access, just to name a few. I use them so…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe current data landscape is fragmented, not just in location but also in terms of shape and processing paradigms: data lakes, IoT architectures, noSQL and graph data stores, SaaS vendors, etc. are found coexisting with relational databases to fuel the…
Reading Time: 4 minutes2019 is the year of the data-driven organization. The more data an organization collects, the more insights they will have, right? Well no actually, it’s more about how you glean the insights from the data rather than how much data…
Reading Time: 7 minutesData are the eyes with which we look at reality. They are the means – not the only one – with which every company can aspire to have full awareness of itself and of the context in which it operates…
Reading Time: 3 minutesNew York is one of the greatest tourist destinations in the world, but navigating your way through this vibrant city can be challenging. If you go there, one thing you cannot miss is the prevalence of Citi Bikes, which offer…
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn the previous article we reviewed the architectural elements of the virtual data lake, and will discuss why a virtual data lake can play a key role for the data scientist. In this post, we will review why it plays…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe concept of big data is funny to me. It is funny because there isn’t any small data when it comes to large corporations. 99% of the companies we work with have big data and it is getting bigger. Companies’…
