Data lake solutions
Drive smarter decisions by capitalizing on more data types from more data sources
From raw data to AI
Collect, govern, manage, access and analyze big data
Business users and data scientists need to derive insights from all of your big data. You can help with a data management strategy that replaces data silos with agile, scalable solutions that can collect, store, govern and secure raw data from across your enterprise, making it ready for analysis.
IBM data lake solutions combine cost-effective, enterprise-class open source technology, with a security-rich ecosystem of products, services and multivendor support. As a compliment to data warehouses or business intelligence solutions, data lakes from IBM offer a repository that can fuel machine learning and real-time advanced analytics in a collaborative environment. They support extremely large data volumes, collecting petabytes of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data from a variety of sources, including those previously untapped such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices and social media.
What is a data lake? (05:17)
Why IBM for data lake solutions
Enterprise-grade open source
IBM is committed to open source technologies and the security, interoperability and data access they bring to advanced analytics.
Partnership with Cloudera
Together, IBM and Cloudera provide a choice of integrated technologies to build, manage and use a data lake for data science at scale.
Multivendor software support
IBM offers a single point of contact, regardless of software edition. A Forrester Research study finds IBM clients can save as much as 25%.
Data lake solutions
Step 1: Build a foundation
On-premises, cloud or hybrid options
IBM Power Systems
Simplify with a cloud data lake deployment or use IBM compute and storage to build out an on-premises data lake.
IBM Spectrum® Scale
Optimize your storage capacity, while protecting and efficiently moving enterprise data in your hybrid environment.
Step 2: Manage and govern
Accelerate results and improve accuracy
Security-rich, governed platform
Optimize your data lake solution with an industry-leading, enterprise-grade big data platform offered by IBM and Cloudera.
Data lake governance
Use time-tested data governance solutions that improve data quality, integration and security.
Step 3: Access and analyze
Bring speed and AI to your data analysis
IBM Db2® Big SQL
Use an enterprise-grade, hybrid, ANSI-compliant SQL engine to gain massively parallel processing and advanced data queries in your data lake.
IBM Big Replicate
Replicate data as it streams into your data lake, so files do not need to be fully written or closed before transfer.
IBM Watson® Studio
Build and train AI and machine learning models, plus prepare and analyze data from your data lake, all in a flexible hybrid cloud environment.
Data lake use cases
Financial Services
Improve customer targeting, make better informed underwriting decisions and provide better claims management while mitigating risk and fraud.
Healthcare
Respond quicker to emerging diseases; improve direct patient care, the customer experience, and administrative, insurance and payment processing.
Communications Service Providers
Optimize network monitoring, management and performance to help mitigate risk and reduce costs. Improve customer targeting and service.
Data lake resources
Connect more data
Integrate a data lake into your data management strategy to generate new insights from more data types and sources.
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