Challenges of today’s monolithic data architecture
3 min read - The real-world challenges organizations are facing with big data today are multi-faceted. Every IT organization knows there is more raw data than ever before; data sources are in multiple locations, in varying forms and of questionable data quality. To add…
Data platform trinity: Competitive or complementary?
6 min read - Data platform architecture has an interesting history. Towards the turn of millennium, enterprises started to realize that the reporting and business intelligence workload required a new solution rather than the transactional applications. A read-optimized platform that can integrate data from…
An evolutionary history of enterprise data architectures
5 min read - There’s an evolutionary paradox that biologists and geneticists have observed multiple times in nature when two nearly-identical species inhabit separate, geographically distant regions. A good example is the species pair of Hodgson’s Frogmouth and Sri Lanka Frogmouth, who inhabit two…
Driving data lake success with automated governance, storage options and enterprise readiness
5 min read - The importance of the data lake has continued to grow as organizations contend with the growth of unstructured data and its sources. By one estimate “80% of worldwide data will be unstructured by 2025” [1] meaning that companies must take…
How big data empowers transformation for communication service providers
4 min read - As 5G networks drive the next wave of transformation for the communications industry, big data and analytics will play a critical role as communication service providers (CSPs) realign their business strategies and implement plans to restructure their operations, architecture and…
Data that rocks: Get behind Denmark’s premier music festival
4 min read - What people buy, where they go and what they share tells a story. Increasingly so with data. In the case of public events, understanding crowd behavior and consumption can help make or break an event’s reputation where guests’ safety and…