IntroductionThe rise of enterprise data lakes in the 2010s promised consolidated storage for any data at scale. However, while flexible and scalable, they often resulted in so-called "data swamps"- repositories of inaccessible, unmanaged, or low-quality data with fragmented ownership. This article highlights the shift toward decentralised, domain-aligned structures, such as … [Read more...] about From Data Lake to Data Products: Operationalising Analytics at Scale
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The Evolution of Data Lakes in the Cloud: From Storage to Intelligence
Today, data isn't just something businesses collect-it's the foundation for smart decisions and innovation. As the amount of data keeps growing and businesses find new ways to use it, data lakes have evolved a lot. What started as a simple place to store vast amounts of data has transformed into a powerful, cloud-based platform that helps companies analyze and make sense of … [Read more...] about The Evolution of Data Lakes in the Cloud: From Storage to Intelligence
Data Lake Implementation: Best Practices and Key Considerations for Success
Centralization and limitless scalability across data storage, retrieval, and sorting are fundamental to enterprise-grade data lakes. A data lake is a one-stop repository that serves users' data needs 24/7. Therefore, global organizations use it to store unfathomable amounts of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data assets. This post describes the best practices and … [Read more...] about Data Lake Implementation: Best Practices and Key Considerations for Success
The Complexity of Modern Data Environments
Most enterprises today lock away data behind multiple silos. When most people think of these silos, data marts and other old school data architecture approaches usually come to mind. But the modern cloud environment has made things much more complex. Fractured, siloed data environments are not beneficial to any business looking to actually drive value from their data and use … [Read more...] about The Complexity of Modern Data Environments
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