CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

A high hurdle many enterprises have yet to overcome is accessing mainframe data via the cloud. Mainframes hold an enormous amount of critical and sensitive business data including transactional information, healthcare records, customer data, and inventory metrics.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 18, 2024

Many organizations operate data lakes spanning multiple cloud data stores. In these cases, you may want an integrated query layer to seamlessly run analytical queries across these diverse cloud stores and streamline your data analytics processes. This serves as the S3 data lake data for this post.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 2, 2023

Apache Iceberg is an open table format for very large analytic datasets, which captures metadata information on the state of datasets as they evolve and change over time. Iceberg has become very popular for its support for ACID transactions in data lakes and features like schema and partition evolution, time travel, and rollback.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 29, 2024

In the era of big data, data lakes have emerged as a cornerstone for storing vast amounts of raw data in its native format. They support structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, offering a flexible and scalable environment for data ingestion from multiple sources.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Amazon Redshift , launched in 2013, has undergone significant evolution since its inception, allowing customers to expand the horizons of data warehousing and SQL analytics. This allowed customers to scale read analytics workloads and offered isolation to help maintain SLAs for business-critical applications.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

It aims to bridge the gap between various data formats and processing systems, offering a standardized approach to data storage and retrieval. With UniForm, you can read Delta Lake tables as Apache Iceberg tables. This expands data access to broader options of analytics engines.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 9, 2023

A modern data architecture enables companies to ingest virtually any type of data through automated pipelines into a data lake, which provides highly durable and cost-effective object storage at petabyte or exabyte scale.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 9, 2025

Iceberg offers distinct advantages through its metadata layer over Parquet, such as improved data management, performance optimization, and integration with various query engines. Unlike direct Amazon S3 access, Iceberg supports these operations on petabyte-scale data lakes without requiring complex custom code.

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Metadata Snapshot Cost-Benefit Optimization 107

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 29, 2024

To achieve this, they aimed to break down data silos and centralize data from various business units and countries into the BMW Cloud Data Hub (CDH). This led to inefficiencies in data governance and access control.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 15, 2025

For container terminal operators, data-driven decision-making and efficient data sharing are vital to optimizing operations and boosting supply chain efficiency. Enhance agility by localizing changes within business domains and clear data contracts. Eliminate centralized bottlenecks and complex data pipelines.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Amazon DataZone now launched authentication supports through the Amazon Athena JDBC driver, allowing data users to seamlessly query their subscribed data lake assets via popular business intelligence (BI) and analytics tools like Tableau, Power BI, Excel, SQL Workbench, DBeaver, and more.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 3, 2024

They understand that a one-size-fits-all approach no longer works, and recognize the value in adopting scalable, flexible tools and open data formats to support interoperability in a modern data architecture to accelerate the delivery of new solutions.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Amazon Redshift enables you to efficiently query and retrieve structured and semi-structured data from open format files in Amazon S3 data lake without having to load the data into Amazon Redshift tables. Amazon Redshift extends SQL capabilities to your data lake, enabling you to run analytical queries.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 18, 2024

Over the years, organizations have invested in creating purpose-built, cloud-based data lakes that are siloed from one another. A major challenge is enabling cross-organization discovery and access to data across these multiple data lakes, each built on different technology stacks.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Analytics remained one of the key focus areas this year, with significant updates and innovations aimed at helping businesses harness their data more efficiently and accelerate insights. This zero-ETL integration reduces the complexity and operational burden of data replication to let you focus on deriving insights from your data.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 31, 2023

Tens of thousands of customers today use Amazon Redshift to analyze exabytes of data and run analytical queries, making it the most widely used cloud data warehouse. With Amazon Redshift, you can query the data in your S3 data lake using a central AWS Glue metastore from your Redshift data warehouse.

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BizAcuity

MARCH 29, 2019

Data lakes are centralized repositories that can store all structured and unstructured data at any desired scale. The power of the data lake lies in the fact that it often is a cost-effective way to store data. The power of the data lake lies in the fact that it often is a cost-effective way to store data.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We often see requests from customers who have started their data journey by building data lakes on Microsoft Azure, to extend access to the data to AWS services. In such scenarios, data engineers face challenges in connecting and extracting data from storage containers on Microsoft Azure.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Collibra is a data governance software company that offers tools for metadata management and data cataloging. The software enables organizations to find data quickly, identify its source and assure its integrity.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 10, 2023

Since the deluge of big data over a decade ago, many organizations have learned to build applications to process and analyze petabytes of data. Data lakes have served as a central repository to store structured and unstructured data at any scale and in various formats.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

With this new functionality, customers can create up-to-date replicas of their data from applications such as Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Zendesk in an Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse and Amazon Redshift. SageMaker Lakehouse gives you the flexibility to access and query your data in-place with all Apache Iceberg compatible tools and engines.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, AI-powered cloud data warehouse that delivers the best price-performance for your analytics workloads at any scale. It enables you to get insights faster without extensive knowledge of your organization’s complex database schema and metadata. Your data is not shared across accounts.

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Metadata Sales Data Warehouse Optimization 97

AWS Big Data

AUGUST 15, 2024

Unlocking the true value of data often gets impeded by siloed information. Traditional data management—wherein each business unit ingests raw data in separate data lakes or warehouses—hinders visibility and cross-functional analysis. Amazon DataZone natively supports data sharing for Amazon Redshift data assets.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 20, 2023

With data becoming the driving force behind many industries today, having a modern data architecture is pivotal for organizations to be successful. In this post, we describe Orca’s journey building a transactional data lake using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Apache Iceberg, and AWS Analytics.

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Data Lake Analytics Snapshot Data Quality 94

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

These formats, exemplified by Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, and Delta Lake, addresses persistent challenges in traditional data lake structures by offering an advanced combination of flexibility, performance, and governance capabilities. These are useful for flexible data lifecycle management.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The Analytics specialty practice of AWS Professional Services (AWS ProServe) helps customers across the globe with modern data architecture implementations on the AWS Cloud. Of those tables, some are larger (such as in terms of record volume) than others, and some are updated more frequently than others.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In August, we wrote about how in a future where distributed data architectures are inevitable, unifying and managing operational and business metadata is critical to successfully maximizing the value of data, analytics, and AI.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 10, 2024

Organizations have multiple Hive data warehouses across EMR clusters, where the metadata gets generated. To address this challenge, organizations can deploy a data mesh using AWS Lake Formation that connects the multiple EMR clusters. An entity can act both as a producer of data assets and as a consumer of data assets.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

For many organizations, this centralized data store follows a data lake architecture. Although data lakes provide a centralized repository, making sense of this data and extracting valuable insights can be challenging. Clean up To avoid incurring future charges, delete the resources you created.

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DataKitchen

AUGUST 3, 2021

First-generation – expensive, proprietary enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence platforms maintained by a specialized team drowning in technical debt. Second-generation – gigantic, complex data lake maintained by a specialized team drowning in technical debt. See the pattern?

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

As technology and business leaders, your strategic initiatives, from AI-powered decision-making to predictive insights and personalized experiences, are all fueled by data. Yet, despite growing investments in advanced analytics and AI, organizations continue to grapple with a persistent and often underestimated challenge: poor data quality.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 25, 2023

But most important of all, the assumed dormant value in the unstructured data is a question mark, which can only be answered after these sophisticated techniques have been applied. Therefore, there is a need to being able to analyze and extract value from the data economically and flexibly. The solution integrates data in three tiers.

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AWS Big Data

MAY 24, 2023

When you build your transactional data lake using Apache Iceberg to solve your functional use cases, you need to focus on operational use cases for your S3 data lake to optimize the production environment. availability. show() The snapshots that have expired show the latest snapshot ID as null.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Data lakes are a popular choice for today’s organizations to store their data around their business activities. As a best practice of a data lake design, data should be immutable once stored. A data lake built on AWS uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as its primary storage environment.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

These nodes can implement analytical platforms like data lake houses, data warehouses, or data marts, all united by producing data products. The following diagram illustrates the building blocks of the Institutional Data & AI Platform.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 7, 2024

At the same time, they need to optimize operational costs to unlock the value of this data for timely insights and do so with a consistent performance. With this massive data growth, data proliferation across your data stores, data warehouse, and data lakes can become equally challenging.

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Jet Global

JULY 2, 2019

To address the flood of data and the needs of enterprise businesses to store, sort, and analyze that data, a new storage solution has evolved: the data lake. What’s in a Data Lake? Data warehouses do a great job of standardizing data from disparate sources for analysis. Taking a Dip.

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