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Reading Time: 2 minutes Data management is the key to unlock the true potential of your business. The right combination of data management tools can make all the difference to your data strategy. Access to critical data can drive important business decisions and also…
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 The 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 minutes Regulatory compliance keeps getting more complex. Facing a range of regulations covering privacy, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), to financial regulations such as Dodd-Frank and Basel II, to…
Reading Time: 3 minutes As any data leader will tell you, it is impossible to derive any value from data unless it is accessible and reliable, regardless of where the data resides. Unfortunately, organizations are far from achieving this goal, because their data is…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Most organizations are moving their IT systems to the cloud. In most cases, they are performing these migrations to increase the scalability of both processing and storage, and generally to free the organization from the limitations of on-premises systems. However,…
Reading Time: < 1 minute Big data infrastructures, supported by effective new data science tools and the IoT, are making it possible to understand the actions and proclivities of customers at a highly granular level. This is inspiring organizations to modernize their data architectures, with…
Reading Time: 5 minutes Data virtualization has a privileged position in modern architectures for data discovery and use cases such as data fabric and logical data warehousing. Data virtualization provides unified data access, data integration, and a delivery layer, bridging the gap between distributed…
Reading Time: 6 minutes The Forrester report “Predictions 2018: A year of reckoning” predicted that 80% of firms affected by the GDPR will not be able to comply with the regulation by the time it comes into force on May 25. Of those noncompliant…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Cloud technologies, whether applications or data storage and processing, are becoming a fact of life for the majority of organizations. The scalability, agility, and cost savings are proving to be compelling reasons for organizations moving to the Cloud. But who…
