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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: 2 minutes The world is becoming more and more digital, isn’t it? But do you wonder what the future of data strategy looks like? Data exploration and analysis can bring enormous value to a business. End consumers and institutions can both benefit…
Reading Time: 3 minutes The pandemic has forever changed the way we live and do business. Practically overnight, organizations have been forced to adapt by modernizing their data architecture to support new types of analysis and new ways to connect to data. To gain…
Reading Time: 3 minutes The market for data lakes has recently seen an impressive wave of new-generation engines that provide highly efficient processing of very large data volumes stored in distributed file systems, like S3, ADLS and others. With low cost of storage in…
Reading Time: 5 minutes In my previous post, I described the data fabric architectural pattern. Before turning to the data lakehouse, let’s first look at what I mean by an architectural pattern. The Power of a Pattern An architectural pattern, or logical architecture, describes…
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: 3 minutes Uber owns no fleet, and Airbnb owns no real estate. These and other companies have grown very quickly, with relatively little investment, by establishing thin customer-interface layers above complex systems of goods or services owned by third parties. Point is to…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Today, the market offers a wide range of IaaS options for data storage, with several public clouds vying for the attention of enterprise customers. Still, on-premises systems remain an option, and several companies prefer to maintain their own private clouds….
Reading Time: 5 minutes “Data mesh” is a new data analytics paradigm proposed by Zhamak Dehghani, one that is designed to move organizations from monolithic architectures such as the data warehouse and the data lake to more decentralized architectures. As long-time supporters of logical…
Reading Time: 3 minutes BITanium, based out of South Africa, is a longstanding Denodo partner. Here, I would like to highlight the stories of two companies that have leveraged our partnership to unlock the full power of data within their organizations. First, a little…
