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Reading Time: 2 minutesI recently attended Business Technology Forum by Forrester Research in Florida. As the event title indicates business and technology cross-over more than ever, just as software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications have done for operations, and now self-service business intelligence (Self-Service BI) and…
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe last couple of years have seen successful Hadoop deployments in large companies as the established paradigm for Big Data scenarios. One of the most popular architectures in this new ecosystem is the so-called “data lake”. In short, the idea…
Reading Time: 3 minutesData lakes have captured the imagination in the past few months. The idea of having all of your data stored in a ‘lake’ – available to all and sundry – is very appealing to both data architects and to the…
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne of the best parts of my job is helping customers realise their goals of turning a theoretical proposed enterprise architecture with all its promise into a reality by deploying an Enterprise Data Access Layer. It’s a tenuous link, but…
Reading Time: 3 minutesYou’ve undoubtedly heard the (tired) definition of big data involving the three “Vs” for volume, variety, and velocity. Now there’s a growing movement to associate a fourth V-word with big data sets: virtualization. But what is data virtualization? For years,…
