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

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

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.

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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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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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erwin

APRIL 2, 2021

How can companies protect their enterprise data assets, while also ensuring their availability to stewards and consumers while minimizing costs and meeting data privacy requirements? Data Security Starts with Data Governance. Lack of a solid data governance foundation increases the risk of data-security incidents.

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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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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

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. From enhancing data lakes to empowering AI-driven analytics, AWS unveiled new tools and services that are set to shape the future of data and analytics.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 4, 2021

And if data security tops IT concerns, data governance should be their second priority. Not only is it critical to protect data, but data governance is also the foundation for data-driven businesses and maximizing value from data analytics. But it’s still not easy. But it’s still not easy.

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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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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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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

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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AWS Big Data

MAY 7, 2024

Data governance is a key enabler for teams adopting a data-driven culture and operational model to drive innovation with data. Amazon DataZone allows you to simply and securely govern end-to-end data assets stored in your Amazon Redshift data warehouses or data lakes cataloged with the AWS Glue data catalog.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Data silos are a perennial data management problem for enterprises, with almost three-quarters (73%) of participants in ISG Research’s Data Governance Benchmark Research citing disparate data sources and systems as a data governance challenge.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 16, 2023

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. Iceberg captures metadata information on the state of datasets as they evolve and change over time. Choose Create.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

For many enterprises, a hybrid cloud data lake is no longer a trend, but becoming reality. With an on-premise deployment, enterprises have full control over data security, data access, and data governance. Data that needs to be tightly controlled (e.g. The Problem with Hybrid Cloud Environments.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 5, 2025

Quick setup enables two default blueprints and creates the default environment profiles for the data lake and data warehouse default blueprints. You will then publish the data assets from these data sources. Add an AWS Glue data source to publish the new AWS Glue table. Review and choose Create.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 24, 2023

AWS Lake Formation helps with enterprise data governance and is important for a data mesh architecture. It works with the AWS Glue Data Catalog to enforce data access and governance. This solution only replicates metadata in the Data Catalog, not the actual underlying data.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Collaboration – Analysts, data scientists, and data engineers often own different steps within the end-to-end analytics journey but do not have an simple way to collaborate on the same governed data, using the tools of their choice.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

In an earlier blog, I defined a data catalog as “a collection of metadata, combined with data management and search tools, that helps analysts and other data users to find the data that they need, serves as an inventory of available data, and provides information to evaluate fitness data for intended uses.”.

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erwin

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Insights: Given the meaning of the data is the same, regardless of the domain it came from, an organization can use its data to power business insights. Compliance: It improves data governance to comply with such regulations as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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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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AWS Big Data

MARCH 7, 2023

A data hub is a center of data exchange that constitutes a hub of data repositories and is supported by data engineering, data governance, security, and monitoring services. A data hub contains data at multiple levels of granularity and is often not integrated.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 26, 2024

New feature: Custom AWS service blueprints Previously, Amazon DataZone provided default blueprints that created AWS resources required for data lake, data warehouse, and machine learning use cases. You can build projects and subscribe to both unstructured and structured data assets within the Amazon DataZone portal.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Solutions data architect: These individuals design and implement data solutions for specific business needs, including data warehouses, data marts, and data lakes. Application data architect: The application data architect designs and implements data models for specific software applications.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Jim Hare, distinguished VP and analyst at Gartner, says that some people think they need to take all the data siloed in systems in various business units and dump it into a data lake. But what they really need to do is fundamentally rethink how data is managed and accessed,” he says.

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Alation

APRIL 6, 2023

Data governance is traditionally applied to structured data assets that are most often found in databases and information systems. This blog focuses on governing spreadsheets that contain data, information, and metadata, and must themselves be governed. Simply put, metadata adds context.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 9, 2024

For our heater example, Icebergs change log view would allow us to effortlessly retrieve a timeline of all price changes, complete with timestamps and other relevant metadata, as shown in the following table. Hes passionate about helping customers use Apache Iceberg for their data lakes on AWS.

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Alation

JUNE 14, 2021

And third is what factors CIOs and CISOs should consider when evaluating a catalog – especially one used for data governance. The Role of the CISO in Data Governance and Security. They want CISOs putting in place the data governance needed to actively protect data. So CISOs must protect data.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 17, 2023

A data lakehouse is an emerging data management architecture that improves efficiency and converges data warehouse and data lake capabilities driven by a need to improve efficiency and obtain critical insights faster. Let’s start with why data lakehouses are becoming increasingly important.

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Alation

JANUARY 26, 2023

These data requirements could be satisfied with a strong data governance strategy. Governance can — and should — be the responsibility of every data user, though how that’s achieved will depend on the role within the organization. How can data engineers address these challenges directly?

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 26, 2024

In this post, we discuss how you can use purpose-built AWS services to create an end-to-end data strategy for C360 to unify and govern customer data that address these challenges. Then, you transform this data into a concise format. Let’s find out what role each of these components play in the context of C360.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 27, 2022

Gartner defines a data fabric as “a design concept that serves as an integrated layer of data and connecting processes. The data fabric architectural approach can simplify data access in an organization and facilitate self-service data consumption at scale. 2 “Exposing The Data Mesh Blind Side ” Forrester.

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Andrew White

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The outline of the call went as follows: I was taking to a central state agency who was organizing a data governance initiative (in their words) across three other state agencies. All four agencies had reported an independent but identical experience with data governance in the past. An expensive consulting engagement.

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