AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Data is your generative AI differentiator, and a successful generative AI implementation depends on a robust data strategy incorporating a comprehensive data governance approach. Data governance is a critical building block across all these approaches, and we see two emerging areas of focus.

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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. Business units access clean, standardized data.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

JUNE 12, 2019

Under that focus, Informatica's conference emphasized capabilities across six areas (all strong areas for Informatica): data integration, data management, data quality & governance, Master Data Management (MDM), data cataloging, and data security.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, enterprises across regulated industries face a critical challenge as they navigate their digital transformation journeys: effectively managing and governing data from legacy systems that are being phased out or replaced. We have created two groups: Data Engineering and Auditor.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

APRIL 8, 2021

Organizations are accelerating their digital transformation and looking for innovative ways to engage with customers in this new digital era of data management. The challenge is to ensure that processes, applications and data can still be integrated across cloud and on-premises systems.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

JANUARY 22, 2021

Organizations are dealing with exponentially increasing data that ranges broadly from customer-generated information, financial transactions, edge-generated data and even operational IT server logs. A combination of complex data lake and data warehouse capabilities are required to leverage this data.

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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

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. and Delta Lake 2.3.0. Apache Iceberg 1.2.0,

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This integration enables data teams to efficiently transform and manage data using Athena with dbt Cloud’s robust features, enhancing the overall data workflow experience. This enables you to extract insights from your data without the complexity of managing infrastructure.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 10, 2024

In this post, we delve into the key aspects of using Amazon EMR for modern data management, covering topics such as data governance, data mesh deployment, and streamlined data discovery. Organizations have multiple Hive data warehouses across EMR clusters, where the metadata gets generated.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2022

This would be straightforward task were it not for the fact that, during the digital-era, there has been an explosion of data – collected and stored everywhere – much of it poorly governed, ill-understood, and irrelevant. Further, data management activities don’t end once the AI model has been developed.

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erwin

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The Regulatory Rationale for Integrating Data Management & Data Governance. Now, as Cybersecurity Awareness Month comes to a close – and ghosts and goblins roam the streets – we thought it a good time to resurrect some guidance on how data governance can make data security less scary.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 2, 2024

According to Kari Briski, VP of AI models, software, and services at Nvidia, successfully implementing gen AI hinges on effective data management and evaluating how different models work together to serve a specific use case. Data management, when done poorly, results in both diminished returns and extra costs.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Data fabric refers to technology products that can be used to integrate, manage and govern data across distributed environments, supporting the cultural and organizational data ownership and access goals of data mesh.

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erwin

APRIL 2, 2021

Organizations are managing more data than ever. With more companies increasingly migrating their data to the cloud to ensure availability and scalability, the risks associated with data management and protection also are growing. Data Security Starts with Data Governance.

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DataKitchen

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In the book, author Zhamak Dehghani reveals that, despite the time, money, and effort poured into them, data warehouses and data lakes fail when applied at the scale and speed of today’s organizations. A distributed data mesh is a better choice. Disrupting Data Governance: A Call to Action, by Laura B.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Data governance is the process of ensuring the integrity, availability, usability, and security of an organization’s data. Due to the volume, velocity, and variety of data being ingested in data lakes, it can get challenging to develop and maintain policies and procedures to ensure data governance at scale for your data lake.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

But collecting data is only half of the equation. As the data grows, it becomes challenging to find the right data at the right time. Many organizations can’t take full advantage of their data lakes because they don’t know what data actually exists.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Data architecture definition Data architecture describes the structure of an organizations logical and physical data assets, and data management resources, according to The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). An organizations data architecture is the purview of data architects. Cloud computing.

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Data Virtualization

JUNE 16, 2022

Reading Time: 6 minutes Data Governance as a concept and practice has been around for as long as data management has been around. It, however is gaining prominence and interest in recent years due to the increasing volume of data that needs to be.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

To avoid the inevitable, CIOs must get serious about data management. Data, of course, has been all the rage the past decade, having been declared the “new oil” of the digital economy. Still, to truly create lasting value with data, organizations must develop data management mastery.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 24, 2023

Building a data lake on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) provides numerous benefits for an organization. However, many use cases, like performing change data capture (CDC) from an upstream relational database to an Amazon S3-based data lake, require handling data at a record level.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 4, 2021

With hackers now working overtime to expose business data or implant ransomware processes, data security is largely IT managers’ top priority. And if data security tops IT concerns, data governance should be their second priority. Effective data governance must extend beyond the IT organization.

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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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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Ventana Research recently announced its 2020 research agenda for data, continuing the guidance we’ve offered for nearly two decades to help organizations derive optimal value and improve business outcomes. Data volumes continue to grow while data latency requirements continue to shrink.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 21, 2023

Data-driven organizations treat data as an asset and use it across different lines of business (LOBs) to drive timely insights and better business decisions. This leads to having data across many instances of data warehouses and data lakes using a modern data architecture in separate AWS accounts.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The data can also help us enrich our commodity products. How are you populating your data lake? We’ve decided to take a practical approach, led by Kyle Benning, who runs our data function. Then our analytics team, an IT group, makes sure we build the data lake in the right sequence.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In today’s data-driven world , organizations are constantly seeking efficient ways to process and analyze vast amounts of information across data lakes and warehouses. This post will showcase how this data can also be queried by other data teams using Amazon Athena. Verify that you have Python version 3.7

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

JANUARY 14, 2021

Organizations still struggle with limited data visibility and insufficient insights, which are often caused by a multitude of reasons such as analytic workloads running independently, data spread across multiple data centers, data governance, etc.

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Alation

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Data Swamp vs Data Lake. When you imagine a lake, it’s likely an idyllic image of a tree-ringed body of reflective water amid singing birds and dabbling ducks. I’ll take the lake, thank you very much. Many organizations have built a data lake to solve their data storage, access, and utilization challenges.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 29, 2024

However, the initial version of CDH supported only coarse-grained access control to entire data assets, and hence it was not possible to scope access to data asset subsets. This led to inefficiencies in data governance and access control. The architecture is shown in the following figure.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 26, 2024

Last week, we announced the general availability of custom AWS service blueprints , a new feature in Amazon DataZone allowing you to customize your Amazon DataZone project environments to use existing AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and AWS services to embed the service into your existing processes.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 27, 2022

Data fabric and data mesh are emerging data management concepts that are meant to address the organizational change and complexities of understanding, governing and working with enterprise data in a hybrid multicloud ecosystem. The good news is that both data architecture concepts are complimentary.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 9, 2024

The dashboard now in production uses Databricks’ Azure data lake to ingest, clean, store, and analyze the data, and Microsoft’s Power BI to generate graphical analytics that present critical operational data in a single view, such as the number of flights coming into domestic and international terminals and average security wait times.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 25, 2024

This post is co-authored by Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Director of Product, Salesforce Data Cloud. In today’s data-driven business landscape, organizations collect a wealth of data across various touch points and unify it in a central data warehouse or a data lake to deliver business insights.

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