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Can Data Lakes Survive the Data Silo Onslaught?

Data lakes are hot. There's no doubt about that. But will the data lake concept hold water in the long term? The jury is still out on that question, as the number and type of databases proliferates, as big Hadoop environ Read more…

Transcending Regulatory Compliance: Creating Business Value from Data Governance

Data governance has emerged to the forefront of financial services ever since this vertical became inundated with increasing and evolving regulations, penalties, and regulatory entities at the end of the last decade. Str Read more…

Data Management and Governance in the Data Lake

A data lake is a central location in which to store all your data, regardless of source or format. It is typically built using Hadoop. The data can be structured or unstructured. You can use a variety of storage, analyti Read more…

Using Analytic Pipelines to Drain Data Swamps

Hadoop excels as a platform for storing vast amounts of data, but it may or may not be the best place for enterprises to run analytic queries. Now enterprises may want to consider an emerging big data architecture that f Read more…

How Graph-Based Smart Data Lakes Will Democratize Value Extraction from Big Data

The prevalence of big data and the value it generates has greatly, and perhaps indelibly, altered contemporary business practices in two pivotal ways. Firstly, the value of just-in-time analytics is contributing to a Read more…

Struggling Under Multiple Databases? Get Used To It

Programmers are a fickle bunch. One day they're all using Java, and the next day Python is the hot new thing. While developers indelibly will dabble in different languages, we're now seeing them do similar things with da Read more…

From Data Lakes to State Analytics

Earlier this year, I published my thoughts around a data lake use case that I called “The Union of the State.” Since this post published, the topic of data lakes and data analytics has become more widely debated than Read more…

Data Lake Showdown: Object Store or HDFS?

The explosion of data is causing people to rethink their long-term storage strategies. Most agree that distributed systems, one way or another, will be involved. But when it comes down to picking the distributed system-- Read more…

Hadoop, Triple Stores, and the Semantic Data Lake

Hadoop-based data lakes are springing up all over the place as organizations seek low-cost repositories for storing huge mounds of semi-structured data. But when it comes to analyzing that data, some organizations are fi Read more…

Why Big Data Isn’t Changing Everything (At Least Not Yet)

Think everything is different in this new big data world, that the world of data lakes, mobile devices, predictive analytics, and the cloud are rewriting the rules of business technology? Then think again, says Tony Fish Read more…

Microsoft Scales Data Lake into Exabyte Territory

Microsoft today announced its Azure Data Lake, an HDFS-compatible data repository designed to store vast amounts of structured and unstructured data for customers who want to analyze or explore it later with their choice Read more…

What Lies Beneath the Data Lake

Hadoop and the data lake represents potential business breakthrough for enterprise big data goals, yet beneath the surface is the murky reality of data chaos. In big data circles, the “data lake” is one of the top Read more…

How to Get a ‘Network Effect’ from Your Big Data Lake

One of the hidden benefits of being a data-driven organization is a so-called "network effect" that occurs around data and analytics. When an organization has several successful big data analytics projects under its belt Read more…

Why ‘Data Lakes’ May Create Drowning Risks

Many organizations tackling Big Data projects find themselves swimming in uncharted waters, but the concept of a “data lake” may be at least one way to keep them from wading in too deep. A data lake can be defined Read more…

The Land of a Thousand Big Data Lakes

The prospect of storing and processing all of one's data in an enterprise data lake running on Hadoop is gaining momentum, particularly when it comes to today's massive unstructured data flows. However, given what we kno Read more…

The Aspirational Data Lake Value Proposition

The industry hype around Hadoop and the concept of the Enterprise Data Lake has generated enormous expectations reaching all the way to the executive suite. Yet, when trying to establish a Modern Data Architecture, organ Read more…

EMC, Pivotal Add Compute to Hadoop Data Lake

Storage vendor EMC Corp. and cloud specialist Pivotal have partnered to roll out a new version of a Data Lake Hadoop Bundle that adds a compute option to the big data product along with accelerated analytics that come wi Read more…

Are Data Lakes All Wet?

Enterprise data management platforms known as "data lakes" are being promoted as, among other things, a potential solution to "information siloes" by combining different managed collections of data in an unmanaged data l Read more…

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