Click to learn more about author Daniel Mintz. Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), data has to be controlled, secured and deleteable or anonymized. This means that all businesses housing large volumes of data are faced with a dilemma: figuring out which data to keep and ensuring that data that is kept is secure. […]
Data Lakes: Cleaning Up Data’s Junk Drawer
Click to learn more about author Paul Brunet. We all have that place where we end up stashing those things we think we’ll need or want someday. Some of us throw the stuff in a junk drawer in the kitchen. Others squirrel it away to the attic or into a closet in the spare bedroom. […]
What’s the Difference Between a Data Warehouse and Data Lake?
Click to learn more about video blogger Andrew Brust. The Big Data & Brews video blog series continues with host Andrew Brust, Senior Director of Market Strategy and Intelligence at Datameer. The series touches on hot topics within the business of Big Data, Analytics, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Modern BI, NoSQL and Next […]
Data Lake vs. Data Swamp: Leveraging Enterprise Data
One organization’s Data Lake may very well be someone else’s Data Swamp. The difference lies in how data is curated. What does this mean? For starters, a Data Lake describes where vast amount of data of various types and structures can be ingested, stored, assessed, and analyzed. Specifically, Data Lakes make it easy for Data […]
Data Lake Management Reaches Maturity
Does this scenario sound familiar? In an organization’s quest to become data-driven and analytics-savvy, it has worked to implement a Data Lake. The initial hope was that such an organization would realize greater agility for certain use cases than was possible with a Data Warehouse – which were time-consuming to set up, costly to maintain, […]
In Defense of the Data Swamp
Click to learn more about author Kimberly Nevala. Like political discourse in the US, the issue of the Data Lake has been decidedly polarized. Two sides advocating for better data access and faster insight. Each taking drastically different approaches to achieve the goal. To be fair: moderates exist and are – in many cases – […]
How to Prevent A Data Lake from Becoming a Data Swamp
Click to learn more about video blogger Andrew Brust. The Big Data & Brews video blog series continues with host Andrew Brust, Senior Director of Market Strategy and Intelligence at Datameer. The series touches on hot topics within the business of Big Data, Analytics, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Modern BI, NoSQL and Next […]