There's a lot of fact, fiction and confusion surrounding data lakes. Not so much with my fellow chief technology officers (CTOs), but perhaps at the chief executive officer (CXO) level. It's not ...

Both data warehouses and data lakes offer robust options for ensuring that data is well-managed and prepped for today’s analytics requirements. However, the two environments have distinctly different ...

The data lake has become accepted as an important component of a modern data architecture, enabling a wider variety of data to be accessed by users. Yet, challenges persist. Recently, John O’Brien, ...

Ingesting large volumes of disparate data can yield a rich source of information — but it's also a recipe for data chaos. Use these tips to improve data quality as your data lake grows. Image: ...

We often view technological advance as an inevitable movement of forward progress –a manifest destiny for the tech world. Yet it’s wrong to assume new is always better. New technologies often bring ...

Data lakes can help agencies pool data from different sources and in a variety of formats to gain new insights that aid their missions. Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech ...

In the early 2000s, manufacturers asked, “How can we collect more data?” The industry resoundingly responded. Today, manufacturers collect unprecedented amounts of data, causing many to remember the ...

Dive into data lakes—what they are, how they're used, and how data lakes are both different and complementary to data warehouses. In 2011, James Dixon, then CTO of the business intelligence company ...

Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines cost-effective data storage with machine learning and data analytics, and it's available on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Could it be an affordable alternative for your ...

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