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Reading Time: 5 minutes In my previous post, I described the data fabric architectural pattern. Before turning to the data lakehouse, let’s first look at what I mean by an architectural pattern. The Power of a Pattern An architectural pattern, or logical architecture, describes…
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: 3 minutes Uber owns no fleet, and Airbnb owns no real estate. These and other companies have grown very quickly, with relatively little investment, by establishing thin customer-interface layers above complex systems of goods or services owned by third parties. Point is to…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Organizations are increasingly turning to the cloud to take advantage of scalable yet elastic computing and storage resources. The availability and economics of the cloud for flexible and scalable high-performance environments has radically changed the way information architects envision the…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Today, the market offers a wide range of IaaS options for data storage, with several public clouds vying for the attention of enterprise customers. Still, on-premises systems remain an option, and several companies prefer to maintain their own private clouds….
Reading Time: 3 minutes Konecranes is an industry-leading group of lifting operations, with a broad customer base that includes engineering and process industries, shipyards, and ports. The company delivers productivity-enhancing solutions and services for lifting equipment of all sizes. In 2020, Konecranes had a…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Credit Agricole is one of the world’s largest cooperative financial institutions, with operations in more than 50 countries and providing a diverse set of financial services including retail banking, cooperative banking, investment banking, private banking, wealth management, and asset management….
Reading Time: 3 minutes BHP is a global resources company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. It is among the world’s top producers of major commodities, including iron ore, metallurgical coal, and copper, and has substantial interests in oil and gas. BHP has operations and offices…
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you are in the data management world, you probably help your company to redefine its data analytics architecture, especially in the context of cloud adoption. At some point in the process, someone might have stared at the myriad boxes…
Reading Time: 2 minutes After over a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, perhaps we can now finally see the light at the end of the tunnel, though it may still seem a bit far off. Already, the economy is starting to recoup some of…
