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Reading Time: 3 minutesIn many digitally advanced governments, smart nation ambitions are reshaping how citizen services and digital infrastructure are delivered. From the convenience of identity platforms to AI-powered chatbots and automation tools, innovation is evident everywhere. But the real challenge often lies…
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs data and analytics workloads grow, so do cloud costs, which can add up to some of the largest expenditures in modern organizations. Escalating costs from data storage, compute-intensive queries, and egress fees have turned cloud cost management into a…
Reading Time: 8 minutesIt’s an interesting question. After doing extensive research on AI readiness, I found myself trying to understand what the experts had to say on the matter. One surprising statistic from the Rand Corporation is that 80% of artificial intelligence (AI)…
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this era of data democratization, organizations are aggressively pursuing data self-service initiatives to empower users across departments with seamless access to data. However, many are not factoring in the needs of a new digital stakeholder: generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)…
Reading Time: 5 minutesGenerative AI has opened up new possibilities for organizations that want to be creative and fearless with their data. In my first post in this series, I introduced ways that data fabric and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) can support large…
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI marks a significant leap in technology, promising to deliver transformational automation and innovation across diverse industries and use cases. Having said that, as everyone races to develop next generation AI…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn this post, I’m going to cover logical data management and its impact on data mesh architectures. But there’s a lot of confusion in the marketplace today between different types of architectures, specifically data mesh and data fabric, so I’ll…
Reading Time: 6 minutesData lake, by combining the flexibility of object storage with the scalability and agility of cloud platforms, are becoming an increasingly popular choice as an enterprise data repository. Whether you are on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and leverage AWS S3…
Reading Time: 3 minutesLast month, IDC announced that LeasePlan, a car-as-a-service company, was the winner of IDC’s European Data Strategy and Innovation awards, in the category of Data Management Excellence, for LeasePlan’s logical data fabric. This is a testament to the maturity of…
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt seems like a strange question, but consider how much energy is consumed by blockchain, and in particular, Bitcoin. According to recent reports by the Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance, Bitcoin consumed about 0.55% of the world’s electricity production in…
