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Reading Time: 3 minutes If you want to know why a Physical Data Warehouse is no longer suitable for newer data types, register to the webinar “The Big BI Dilemma – Bimodal Logical Data Warehouse to the Rescue!” by Rick van der Lans on…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Logical data warehouses, driven by data virtualization, are the force of the future. Yet while many BI specialists have embraced the logical data warehouse in theory, they struggle with the actual practical application of data virtualization. Some seem to feel…
Reading Time: 4 minutes After my previous posts about the performance of data virtualization in Logical Data Warehouse and Logical Data Lake scenarios, I have received similar feedback from many of you, “ that is all very interesting… but we want numbers!” Well, you…
Reading Time: 6 minutes Update: Interested in data virtualization performance? Check out our most recent post, “Physical vs Logical Data Warehouse Performance: The Numbers.” After my initial post about the topic, I have received several requests to provide more examples of how query…
Reading Time: 3 minutes We are naturally inclined to think that our relationship with data develops solely in the world > data > use direction, in which data captures what happens in the world, and we use data to understand events in the world…
Reading Time: 5 minutes In the previous article we reviewed the architectural elements of the virtual data lake, and will discuss why a virtual data lake can play a key role for the data scientist. In this post, we will review why it plays…
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 Big data has entered many companies’ data centers and is already transforming whole business models. The grade of adoption varies from initial test and educational projects towards fully-fledged big data landscapes; on-premise or leveraging the flexibility and power of cloud…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Today, data is the lifeblood that can dictate the difference between success or failure. However, becoming truly data-driven remains an elusive goal for many. This gap between aspiration and reality is not for lack of effort; it stems from the…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Recently, I was fortunate enough to get some time with the CIO of a mid-sized financial services company. When I asked him what his most pressing priority was for 2024, he answered, “taming the data storm.” CIOs are no longer viewed…
