Click to learn more about author Itamar Ankorion. Enterprises are struggling to keep pace. With a daily average of 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created, business users and executive teams are barely able to stay afloat in the growing amount of data incoming from IoT devices, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies. This data growth […]
Attunity Launches Streaming Data Pipeline Solution for Data Lakes on AWS
A new press release reports, “Attunity Ltd., a leading provider of data integration and big data management software solutions, announced a new solution today, Attunity for Data Lakes on Amazon Web Services (AWS) designed to automate streaming data pipelines on AWS. The offering is designed to support streaming real-time data from major enterprise databases, mainframes, […]
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. […]
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, […]
Attunity Enhances Data Governance Capabilities for Data Lakes
Attunity, Ltd. (NASDAQ CM: ATTU), leading provider of data integration and big data management software solutions, announced in a recent press release “new product enhancements to its data integration platform that improve data governance capabilities for organizations moving data to clouds and data lakes. As these new analytic systems grow in size and scale, a lack […]
Data Curation 101: The What, Why, and How
Humans have an imperative to practice Data Curation. People have and continue to gather, maintain, and archive data at ever greater volumes, and they always have. They drive to get useful data for today and tomorrow. As Mike Schmoker elegantly states, “Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those […]
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 […]
Databricks Launches Delta to Combine the Best of Data Lakes, Data Warehouses
by Angela Guess A new press release reports, “Databricks, provider of the leading Unified Analytics Platform and founded by the team who created Apache Spark™, today announced Databricks Delta, the first unified data management system that provides the scale and cost-efficiency of a data lake, the reliability and query performance of a data warehouse, and […]
Ventana Research Launches Dynamic Insights for Data Lakes
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Ventana Research announced today its newest market research endeavor on Data Lakes using its latest innovative service, Ventana Research Dynamic Insights. This new approach to research comes from the industry’s most trusted market research provider; one that has built its reputation on research facts that reliably […]
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 […]