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Alation Introduces Agile Information Stewardship with the Release of TrustCheck

According to a recent press release, “Alation Inc., the data catalog company, today announced the general availability of TrustCheck, a new set of features that transforms data governance practices. Alation TrustCheck introduces real-time data governance guardrails directly into the workflow of self-service analytics users. TrustCheck users are automatically alerted to both constraints and best practices, […]

A Brief History of Data Storage

Punch cards were the first effort at data storage in a machine language. Punch cards were used to communicate information to equipment “before” computers were developed. The punched holes originally represented a “sequence of instructions” for pieces of equipment, such as textile looms and player pianos. The holes acted as on/off switches. Basile Bouchon developed […]

Alation Delivers Governance for Insight in Data Lakes, Both On-premises and in the Cloud

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 […]