by Angela Guess

A new press release states, “Alation Inc., the collaborative data company, today announced deeper support for cataloging data lakes deployed both on-premises and in the cloud, including data lakes built with Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). The Alation Data Catalog is the first data catalog to enable data consumers with a complete view into the modern data pipeline. Alation 5.0 delivers governed data within the data lake with increased transparency, empowering self-service analytics users to achieve rapid return on investment through insight discovery.”

Venky Ganti, co-founder and chief technology officer at Alation, commented, “For many organizations, data lakes have become a standard, low-cost way to store data in the cloud and on-premises. But, this technological innovation managed to push the cost of organizing data from the data creator to the data consumer. Wading through data lake complexity makes successful self-service analytics nearly impossible… With a data catalog, analysts can drive thoughtful insights from their data lake, immediately.”

The release goes on, “Alation addresses the complexity of working with data lakes with an enterprise data catalog designed to curate and share context throughout the enterprise. Alation’s new native integration with file systems, including Amazon S3 and HDFS; integration with data processing engines such as Spark, Presto and Impala; and integration with leading data management products, such as the open source project Kylo and Trifacta Enterprise Wrangler, delivers a transparent view into the full context of data stored in the data lake. This visibility into both the path the data traverses within the data lake and the data transformations made throughout the journey consolidates technical and business context into an easily digestible format for more accurate, trusted insights.”

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