With the onset of the pandemic, global businesses began to realize the power of operational efficiency, scalability, and growth. With this realization came the crucial need to shift their data centers to managed service ecosystems – cloud platforms in all their variations. However, locating a suitable data center partner on the cloud has not been an […]
Data Lakehouses: The Future Of Data Migration
It’s no surprise that, in 2023, business enterprises want to become truly data-driven organizations. For many of these organizations, the path toward becoming more data-driven lies in the power of data lakehouses, which combine elements of data warehouse architecture with data lakes. Data lakehouse architecture is particularly attractive to businesses that want to more rapidly […]
What Is a Data Lakehouse?
A data lakehouse is a data storage space containing unstructured and structured data. While data warehouses can store structured data and data lakes are designed for unstructured data, the data lakehouse was developed to provide a resource for both types of data. Data lakehouses allow users to combine the structure and features of a data warehouse with the low-cost […]
Data Mesh Architecture Benefits and Challenges
ThoughtWorks consultant Zhamak Dehghani created the concept of data mesh as a self-serve, domain-oriented design that later evolved into a data-as-a-product design. By integrating and analyzing data from disconnected systems all at once, the data mesh architecture benefits the organization by eliminating the need to pull data from multiple systems and preprocess it. In a […]
Are Data Warehouses Still Relevant?
Over the past few years, enterprise data architectures have evolved significantly to accommodate the changing data requirements of modern businesses. The emergence of advanced data storage technologies, such as cloud computing, data hubs, and data lakes, makes us question the role of traditional data warehouses in modern data architecture. Data warehouses were first introduced in the […]
What Is Data Mesh?
Data mesh is a type of organization and architectural paradigm, or – in simpler words – a distributed architecture for Data Management. The goal is to provide accessibility by distributing the data in the way that the end user needs it. It allows teams to embrace a self-serve data architecture design where they can look at data as […]
The Rise of Cloud Architecture
The rising popularity of cloud architecture signals a central theme: Global businesses in the coming years will migrate their data center operations fully to the cloud, as it offers some inherent advantages over on-premise set-ups. Business survival in the digital age has become synonymous with migration to the cloud. When businesses look for unlimited data storage and […]
2022 DATAVERSITY Top 20
Every December, we here at DATAVERSITY set aside time to dig through our data and reflect on the hits and misses of the year. We want to know: Which content did you, our data-loving readers, consume and enjoy the most? Which Data Management topics and experts helped you learn valuable new skills, succeed at your […]
What Is a Data Lake?
A data lake is an environment where a vast amount of data, of various types and structures, can be ingested, stored, assessed, and analyzed. Data lake technologies can scale to massive volumes of data, and combining datasets is easy with data stored in a relatively raw form. A data lake architecture can centralize data over distributed storage, providing a scalable, […]
The Importance of a Modern Data Architecture
The legacy architecture of some organizations’ data systems may need a serious upgrade to stay competitive. For example, the old architecture of a business may provide a clumsy fit when accessing cloud services and take longer to transfer data and perform tasks within the cloud. This results in higher cloud costs. Additionally, upgrading to a […]