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Reading Time: 2 minutes The Magic Quadrant (MQ) is a well-known and influential series of research reports published annually by the IT research and consulting firm Gartner, Inc. These reports provide overviews and actionable insights regarding market direction, shifts, and players in various major IT markets…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Kerberos has become the one-stop authentication option in secure corporate environments. From the data side, Kerberos provides multiple data storage and processing systems with the ability to offer a consistent single sign-on infrastructure throughout the entire corporate network. This invokes…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Many companies today are embarking on data governance initiatives to avoid drowning in big data. As explained here, data governance tries to establish an upfront agreement regarding: What the company needs to track How those things should be named What…
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: 3 minutes Intelligent caching is a key capability of an enterprise class data virtualization platform. Caching serves many purposes: one of the common uses is to enhance performance when dealing with sources with varying latencies, an increasingly common situation with data virtualization…
Reading Time: 6 minutes The logical data warehouse is the data architecture of the future — fast, flexible and ideal to support self-service BI. In the past year, I have published quite a lot regarding the architectural advantages of the logical data warehouse (read…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Anyone working in business intelligence and analytics must count themselves lucky. And I’m feeling lucky too. We were here when Tableau and Qlik set a seismic market shift in motion, from reliance on IT to business user independence, creating the…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Recently there has been a lot of discussion around the concept of the logical data warehouse. What is the cause of this buzz? Why are logical data warehouses so important for data professionals? To understand this, we first need to…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Complex questions that need simple … but not simplistic … answers. Update: make sure you also read the second part of this content. Data Virtualization Performance and Source System Impact (Part 2) Within sixty seconds into a data virtualization conversation,…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Why 80% of data lakes fail and what you can do about it. The issues and implications of Brexit are all over the news … regionalism vs globalism, independence vs shared governance and regulation, closed vs open borders … and…
