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Reading Time: 4 minutesData virtualization receives its deserved recognition, as the market has significantly matured over the past few years. For the first time, Gartner has published a data virtualization specific Market Guide1, which particularly focuses on why data virtualization should be considered…
Reading Time: 6 minutesWhen creating an enterprise data layer using data virtualization some of the questions that usually came up are, what are the options for metadata management and how to provide data governance now that everything is accessed from a new unified…
Reading Time: 4 minutesFirst there was EII (Enterprise Information Integration) otherwise known as data federation. Data federation technologies allow one central data store (virtual or physical) to link to one or more remote data sources. The central store allows the consuming application to…
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhy 80% of data lakes fail and what you can do about it. The issues and implications of Brexit are all over the news … regionalism vs globalism, independence vs shared governance and regulation, closed vs open borders … and…
Reading Time: 5 minutesIf you check the reference logical architectures for big data analytics proposed by Forrester and Gartner, or ask your colleagues building big data analytics platforms for their companies (typically under the ‘enterprise data lake’ tag), they will all tell you…
Reading Time: 3 minutesThere has been a lot of rhetoric around how data is the new oil and why it is the most critical asset and a resource that an enterprise owns. No doubt, enterprise data, today, is business capital. However making meaningful…
Reading Time: 5 minutesImagine you’ve been walking in the Alps on a hot summer’s day, you’ve reached the highest point of your trek and you come across the crystal clear water of a mountain lake, who wouldn’t want to jump in? In the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesData science disciplines have evolved rapidly in recent years. Fueled by the rise of big data and the internet of things, advanced analysis of large data sets are driving science, business and marketing decisions. At the same time, the exponential…
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs governments worldwide aim to become smarter like Dubai, Barcelona or Singapore, their ultimate goal is to become percipient, astute, shrewd, and quick. That means that smart city governments need to use emerging technologies like Big Data and Internet of…
Reading Time: 4 minutesAfter 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…
