Reading Time: 6 minutes The amount of data a company can manage these days is huge, but making use of these data for analytics and decision-making can be hard and expensive using traditional approaches.Traditional architectures like data warehouses and data lakes rely on storing…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Landslides have caused more than 11,500 fatalities in 70 countries between 2007-2010. Over 1000 people were victims of a landslide that hit Sierra Leone in August 2017. The situation is getting worse as the volume and intensity of rainfall in…
Reading Time: 2 minutes As you are probably already aware, this month we are excited for the arrival of Denodo DataFest 2017, our company flagship event of the year, which is kicking off on October 19 – 20 in New York, and October 26…
Reading Time: 3 minutes The strength of Hadoop and NoSQL systems in supporting big data systems is indisputable. These big data technologies are designed, built, and optimized specifically for large-scale and high-performance environments. Their support for massively parallel hardware architectures and cheap commodity hardware…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Geospatial data and the data virtualization world Geospatial data is information about a physical entity that can be represented by a set of values in a coordinate reference system. This kind of data is today very commonly used for enriching…
Reading Time: 7 minutes Many organizations have made it a high priority to implement a data virtualization solution. This makes sense, since traditional data warehouses can no longer keep pace with the explosive growth in data volumes and user queries. The logical data warehouse…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Data Scientists hold coveted positions in the analytics arena. We picture them spending most of their time gazing into the data and making predictions, and some of the time preparing the data for analysis. Unfortunately, the reverse seems to be…
Reading Time: 2 minutes We have entered an almost unprecedented era where data threatens to overwhelm us. We need efficient data management, but it all comes down to this: Without a way to simplify our consumption of this onslaught of data, businesses are in…
Reading Time: 4 minutes It seems at present there is huge amount of hype on big data and the concept of a data lake related to data virtualisation. Already however there is confusion as to what a data lake is with multiple different definitions…
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…
