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Driving Business Value and ROI from a Hybrid Cloud Data Lake

Alation

For many enterprises, a hybrid cloud data lake is no longer a trend, but becoming reality. Due to these needs, hybrid cloud data lakes emerged as a logical middle ground between the two consumption models. Without business context, business users are less likely to use the data lake and insights will be hard to come by.

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Interview with: Sankar Narayanan, Chief Practice Officer at Fractal Analytics

Corinium

Some of the work is very foundational, such as building an enterprise data lake and migrating it to the cloud, which enables other more direct value-added activities such as self-service. The rule of thumb I have seen work well is 2-3 data engineers for every data scientist in the organization. It is fast and slow.

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Data transformation takes flight at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport

CIO Business Intelligence

The original proof of concept was to have one data repository ingesting data from 11 sources, including flat files and data stored via APIs on premises and in the cloud, Pruitt says. There are a lot of variables that determine what should go into the data lake and what will probably stay on premise,” Pruitt says.

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Data Cataloging in the Data Lake: Alation + Kylo

Alation

When it was no longer a hard requirement that a physical data model be created upon the ingestion of data, there was a resulting drop in richness of the description and consistency of the data stored in Hadoop. You did not have to understand or prepare the data to get it into Hadoop, so people rarely did.

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Mosaic builds a global IT foundation for growth

CIO Business Intelligence

They also built an Azure-based data lake to provide global visibility of the company’s data to its 13,000-strong workforce. Doing so will help Mosaic achieve greater ROI even as it reduces technical debut, the CIO says. Digital transformation projects have always been about creating a data-driven business.

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Forrester Does the Math on the ROI of the Alation Data Catalog

Alation

The research examined the potential ROI enterprises realize by deploying Alation. Forrester created a framework for evaluating the financial impact of the Alation Data Catalog on their organizations. They looked at the benefits, costs and risks associated with a data catalog investment.

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Your New Cloud for AI May Be Inside a Colo

CIO Business Intelligence

Many companies whose AI model training infrastructure is not proximal to their data lake incur steeper costs as the data sets grow larger and AI models become more complex. The reality is that the cloud is not a hammer that should be used to hit every AI nail. Alternate approach: Colocation services for AI infrastructure.