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Reading Time: 4 minutes Since its first incarnation almost 35 years ago in my IBM Systems Journal article, the data warehouse (DW) has remained a key architectural pattern for decision-making support. By decision-making support, I mean everything from simple reporting and querying to AI-based…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Independent technology and market research company – Forrester Research has published The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Data Fabric, Q2 2020 report. Using three high-level categories: offering, strategy, and market presence, the report has characterized and stacked up 15 enterprise data fabric…
Reading Time: 3 minutes According to Gartner, 60% of all the big data projects fail and according to Capgemini 70% of the big data projects are not profitable. There can only be one conclusion, big data projects are hard! There is not one specific…
Reading Time: 3 minutes The recently published The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Fabric, Q2 2018 highlights the need for an integrated infrastructure – the ‘fabric’ – to support your big data. In the headlong rush to create data lakes and other big data architectures, organizations…
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: 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: 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: 2 minutes UPDATE: This event has now passed but you can watch all the sessions on-demand now by following this link. Last year we held the world’s first conference on fast data strategy, and it was an outstanding success. We presented over…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Challenges to Enterprise-wide Adoption of Big Data Technologies Lack of comprehensive strategic planning is proving to be the greatest impediment to enterprise-wide adoption of big data technologies. While organizations are quick to invest in new technologies like Hadoop cluster and…
