Alation

JUNE 17, 2021

Leading companies like Cisco, Nielsen, and Finnair turn to Alation + Snowflake for data governance and analytics. By joining forces, we can build more potent, tailored solutions that leverage data governance as a competitive asset. Lastly, active data governance simplifies stewardship tasks of all kinds.

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IBM Journey to AI blog

JULY 5, 2023

Data Lakes have been around for well over a decade now, supporting the analytic operations of some of the largest world corporations. Such data volumes are not easy to move, migrate or modernize. The challenges of a monolithic data lake architecture Data lakes are, at a high level, single repositories of data at scale.

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Precisely

MARCH 9, 2023

Data warehouse vs. data lake, each has their own unique advantages and disadvantages; it’s helpful to understand their similarities and differences. In this article, we’ll focus on a data lake vs. data warehouse. It is often used as a foundation for enterprise data lakes.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

AUGUST 21, 2024

Amazon DataZone is a data management service that makes it quick and convenient to catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored in AWS, on-premises, and third-party sources. The data lake environment is required to configure an AWS Glue database table, which is used to publish an asset in the Amazon DataZone catalog.

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Dataversity

JANUARY 28, 2021

It has been ten years since Pentaho Chief Technology Officer James Dixon coined the term “data lake.” While data warehouse (DWH) systems have had longer existence and recognition, the data industry has embraced the more […]. The post A Bridge Between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

APRIL 3, 2025

Data governance challenges Maintaining consistent data governance across different systems is crucial but complex. Amazon AppFlow was used to facilitate the smooth and secure transfer of data from various sources into ODAP. The following diagram shows a basic layout of how the solution works.

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phData

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

With the amount of data companies are using growing to unprecedented levels, organizations are grappling with the challenge of efficiently managing and deriving insights from these vast volumes of structured and unstructured data. What is a Data Lake? Consistency of data throughout the data lake.

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Pickl AI

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Discover the nuanced dissimilarities between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses. Data management in the digital age has become a crucial aspect of businesses, and two prominent concepts in this realm are Data Lakes and Data Warehouses. It acts as a repository for storing all the data.

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Dataversity

MAY 26, 2022

A data lake becomes a data swamp in the absence of comprehensive data quality validation and does not offer a clear link to value creation. Organizations are rapidly adopting the cloud data lake as the data lake of choice, and the need for validating data in real time has become critical.

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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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Data Science Dojo

JULY 6, 2023

It enables data engineers to define data models, manage dependencies, and perform automated testing, making it easier to ensure data quality and consistency. Fivetran: Fivetran is a cloud-based data integration platform that simplifies the process of loading data from various sources into a data warehouse or data lake.

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Alation

JANUARY 27, 2022

People might not understand the data, the data they chose might not be ideal for their application, or there might be better, more current, or more accurate data available. An effective data governance program ensures data consistency and trustworthiness. It can also help prevent data misuse.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The rise of data lakes, IOT analytics, and big data pipelines has introduced a new world of fast, big data. How Data Catalogs Can Help. Data catalogs evolved as a key component of the data governance revolution by creating a bridge between the new world and old world of data governance.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Data and governance foundations – This function uses a data mesh architecture for setting up and operating the data lake, central feature store, and data governance foundations to enable fine-grained data access.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This past week, I had the pleasure of hosting Data Governance for Dummies author Jonathan Reichental for a fireside chat , along with Denise Swanson , Data Governance lead at Alation. Can you have proper data management without establishing a formal data governance program?

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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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Dataversity

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The rise of data lakes and adjacent patterns such as the data lakehouse has given data teams increased agility and the ability to leverage major amounts of data. Constantly evolving data privacy legislation and the impact of major cybersecurity breaches has led to the call for responsible data […].

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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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Dataversity

APRIL 23, 2021

Within the Data Management industry, it’s becoming clear that the old model of rounding up massive amounts of data, dumping it into a data lake, and building an API to extract needed information isn’t working. Click to learn more about author Brian Platz.

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Precisely

JUNE 24, 2024

The Precisely team recently had the privilege of hosting a luncheon at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in London. It was an engaging gathering of industry leaders from various sectors, who exchanged valuable insights into crucial aspects of data governance, strategy, and innovation.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

A new research report by Ventana Research, Embracing Modern Data Governance , shows that modern data governance programs can drive a significantly higher ROI in a much shorter time span. Historically, data governance has been a manual and restrictive process, making it almost impossible for these programs to succeed.

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phData

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The main goal of a data mesh structure is to drive: Domain-driven ownership Data as a product Self-service infrastructure Federated governance One of the primary challenges that organizations face is data governance. What is a Data Lake? Today, data lakes and data warehouses are colliding.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

Many teams are turning to Athena to enable interactive querying and analyze their data in the respective data stores without creating multiple data copies. Athena allows applications to use standard SQL to query massive amounts of data on an S3 data lake. Create a data lake with Lake Formation.

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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. The ability to connect straight to the source allows knowledge workers to work natively in spreadsheets, pulling data directly from true data sources like the data warehouse or data lake.

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The Data Administration Newsletter

MARCH 15, 2022

In her groundbreaking article, How to Move Beyond a Monolithic Data Lake to a Distributed Data Mesh, Zhamak Dehghani made the case for building data mesh as the next generation of enterprise data platform architecture.

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Understand what insights you need to gain from your data to drive business growth and strategy. Best practices in cloud analytics are essential to maintain data quality, security, and compliance ( Image credit ) Data governance: Establish robust data governance practices to ensure data quality, security, and compliance.

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Dataversity

DECEMBER 16, 2020

According to IDC, the size of the global datasphere is projected to reach 163 ZB by 2025, leading to the disparate data sources in legacy systems, new system deployments, and the creation of data lakes and data warehouses. Most organizations do not utilize the entirety of the data […].

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IBM Journey to AI blog

JUNE 15, 2023

It is comprised of commodity cloud object storage, open data and open table formats, and high-performance open-source query engines. To help organizations scale AI workloads, we recently announced IBM watsonx.data , a data store built on an open data lakehouse architecture and part of the watsonx AI and data platform.

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IBM Journey to AI blog

AUGUST 4, 2023

Data democratization instead refers to the simplification of all processes related to data, from storage architecture to data management to data security. It also requires an organization-wide data governance approach, from adopting new types of employee training to creating new policies for data storage.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

You can streamline the process of feature engineering and data preparation with SageMaker Data Wrangler and finish each stage of the data preparation workflow (including data selection, purification, exploration, visualization, and processing at scale) within a single visual interface.

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Dataversity

JULY 25, 2024

Over the past few years, the industry has increasingly recognized the need to adopt a data lakehouse architecture because of the inherent benefits. This approach improves data infrastructure costs and reduces time-to-insight by consolidating more data workloads into a single source of truth on the organization’s data lake.

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Alation

JANUARY 13, 2022

Thoughtworks says data mesh is key to moving beyond a monolithic data lake. Spoiler alert: data fabric and data mesh are independent design concepts that are, in fact, quite complementary. Thoughtworks says data mesh is key to moving beyond a monolithic data lake 2. Gartner on Data Fabric.

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Pickl AI

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Key Takeaways Big Data originates from diverse sources, including IoT and social media. Data lakes and cloud storage provide scalable solutions for large datasets. Processing frameworks like Hadoop enable efficient data analysis across clusters. Data Lakes allows for flexibility in handling different data types.

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Pickl AI

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Key Takeaways Big Data originates from diverse sources, including IoT and social media. Data lakes and cloud storage provide scalable solutions for large datasets. Processing frameworks like Hadoop enable efficient data analysis across clusters. Data Lakes allows for flexibility in handling different data types.

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The Data Administration Newsletter

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For most organizations, the process of becoming more data-driven starts with better understanding and using their own data. But internal data is just the tip of the iceberg. Underneath the surface of the (data) lake is the untapped value of external data, which has given rise to the data marketplace.

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The Data Administration Newsletter

MAY 31, 2022

As we enter a new cloud-first era, advancements in technology have helped companies capture and capitalize on data as much as possible. Deciding between which cloud architecture to use has always been a debate between two options: data warehouses and data lakes.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

External Tables Create a Shared View of the Data Lake. We’ve seen external tables become popular with our customers, who use them to provide a normalized relational schema on top of their data lake. Essentially, external tables create a shared view of the data lake, a single pane of glass everyone can reference.

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