AWS Big Data

APRIL 19, 2023

Independent data products often only have value if you can connect them, join them, and correlate them to create a higher order data product that creates additional insights. A modern data architecture is critical in order to become a data-driven organization. Mike is the author of two books and numerous articles.

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TDAN

JUNE 4, 2019

My book “The Data-Centric Revolution” will be out this summer. I will also be presenting at Dataversity’s Data Architecture Summit coming up in a few months. Both exercises reminded me that Data-Centric is not a simple technology upgrade. It’s going to take a great deal more to shift the status quo.

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TDAN

JUNE 6, 2023

You would think that after knocking around in semantics and knowledge graphs for over two decades I’d have had a pretty good idea about Knowledge Management, but it turns out I didn’t. I think in the rare event the term came up I internally conflated it with Knowledge Graphs and moved on. The first tap […]

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TDAN

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The data world continues to change rapidly and you may want to consider these predictions when planning for the new year. Special thank you to Altair for providing the following set of bold predictions for 2023. The rise of generative AI startups: Generative artificial intelligence exploded in 2022.

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TDAN

JANUARY 31, 2023

Government systems produce and store a large amount of data daily. Government leaders want to utilize this data to make decisions faster and more efficiently. It is nearly impossible to make well-informed decisions if that data is not visible, accessible, organized, and cannot be seamlessly discovered across the enterprise.

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TDAN

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Top-quality data currently represents one of the most important resources for any company. Startups that lack familiarity with important tendencies and trends in their industry need to have this crucial data […].

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TDAN

AUGUST 17, 2021

The increasing speed and pace of business certainly contributes to several data challenges (quality, timeliness, availability and, most important, usability of the data).

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TDAN

JULY 18, 2023

It is no secret that cloud migration and transformation helps your business attain desired growth, cost savings, agility, and profitability. With these, your team is able address customer needs faster, monitor app performance, and scale applications according to demand.

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TDAN

AUGUST 1, 2023

Rural areas worldwide are disconnected in a landscape that nearly requires the internet to work or socially interact. But eventually, the entire planet will have equal, high-speed internet access. Neglecting the digital divide and broadband gap will cause cybersecurity concerns for communities entering the digital era.

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JUNE 21, 2022

Twenty-five years ago today, I published the first issue of The Data Administration Newsletter. It only took a few months to recognize that there was an audience for an “online” publication focused on data administration. […].

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TDAN

JUNE 1, 2021

One of the ideas we promote is elegance in the core data model in a Data-Centric enterprise. Look at most application-centric data models: you would think they would be simpler than the enterprise model, after all, they are a small subset of it. This is harder than it sounds.

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TDAN

JANUARY 20, 2021

In the cloud-era, should you store your corporate data in Cosmos DB on Azure, Cloud Spanner on the Google Cloud Platform, or in the Amazon Quantum Ledger? The overwhelming number of options today for storing and managing data in the cloud makes it tough for database experts and architects to design adequate solutions.

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TDAN

JANUARY 3, 2023

For a while now, vendors have been advocating that people put their data in a data lake when they put their data in the cloud. The Data Lake The idea is that you put your data into a data lake. Then, at a later point in time, the end user analyst can come along and […].

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TDAN

MAY 16, 2023

Procurement is an essential function within any organization, involving the acquisition of goods and services necessary for business operations. However, with the rise of digitalization and technology, procurement processes have become increasingly vulnerable to cyber threats.

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TDAN

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

They had seemingly achieved many of the benefits of becoming data-centric through decentralization: all […].

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TDAN

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In 2006, the world learned an inconvenient truth. The planet we call “home” was getting hotter and we were to blame. Naturally, being intelligent and rational beings, we took the action necessary to prevent the oncoming catastrophe.

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TDAN

OCTOBER 20, 2021

As technology is improving itself with continuous upgrades, it has led to the birth of using software without installing it on your device, such service is known as Software as a Service (SaaS). With the introduction of such services in the market, there is also a demand for business stats to appear in real-time. Through […].

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TDAN

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Today’s enterprise data landscape is very complex. Data is coming to the enterprise from everywhere and anywhere at high speed from myriad of data sources. Some data is structured, some data is unstructured, some data is binary, and some data is semi-structured.

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TDAN

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In the world of data, automation plays a well-honed role in rapidly developing modern data estates. Before we proceed any further, let’s establish an understanding about the purpose of a corporate data estate. A data estate is the technical architecture and enterprise infrastructure that enables organizations to […].

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TDAN

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Your security team has plenty of challenges, but securing and protecting your data with consistent, granular, and automated enforcement across your hybrid cloud data estate shouldn’t be one of them.

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AUGUST 20, 2019

Blockchain is a distributed, shared, permissioned ledger for recording transactions with consensus, provenance, immutability, and finality. It is the technology that drives virtual currencies like Bitcoin. But its potential spans many more industries and use cases than just virtual currencies. But let’s back up for a minute.

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TDAN

MAY 31, 2022

One very influential factor that can potentially undermine your data and document strategies is the natural and emotional reactions of people when things change. It is common to take great care in the selection and implementation of new technology.

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TDAN

MAY 3, 2022

This column focuses on challenges of edge computing and explore strategy considerations for implementing and utilizing edge computing in the organization.

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AUGUST 5, 2020

Desperate situations call for desperate measures. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our lifestyle. If you switch on the television, chances are 9 out of 10 channels are talking about COVID-19 and how the numbers are going up across the world. Medical and healthcare experts emphasize preventive measures.

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TDAN

MAY 5, 2020

Many businesses keep their data in silos and employ analytics at a process or departmental level. Centralizing these data silos to create a data mart, warehouse, or lake gives organizations more visibility over operations and results in more accurate analytics that take a wider range of internal and external factors into consideration.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

A few months back, our company enjoyed a retreat a few hours north of the city. We bonded, brainstormed, and set visions and goals for the development of our company and our products. We also had bonfires with s’mores, and that’s more relevant than you might think. We ended up with a surplus of marshmallows […].

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JUNE 18, 2019

The first step to fixing any problem is to understand that problem—this is a significant point of failure when it comes to data. Most organizations agree that they have data issues, categorized as data quality. However, this definition is […].

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

There is a movement to upend traditional thinking about information systems by putting data and meaning at the center of strategy, architecture, and system development sequencing. Past waves have receded, largely because […].

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

Everyone’s talking about data. Data is the key to unlocking insight— the secret sauce that will help you get predictive, the fuel for business intelligence. It relies on data. The good news is that data has never […]. The transformative potential in AI?

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

We’re living in a time where data is a crucial part of everything. quintillion bytes of data, and that number is only growing more extensive with the arrival of the Internet of Things. More importantly, this data doesn’t just stand still. Every day, we generate around 2.5 It moves, accumulates, and evolves.

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TDAN

AUGUST 6, 2019

Deep learning, as defined by MathWorks, is a system of artificial intelligence that is built around learning by example. Multiple industries have already understood the benefits that deep learning brings to their operational capabilities.

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

Is there a difference between open data and public data? And it’s a big one. There is a general consensus that when we talk about open data, we are referring to any piece of data or content that is free to access, use, reuse, and redistribute. Due to the way most governments have rolled out […].

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TDAN

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When it comes to marketing, business owners need to be fast in adjusting their strategies to fit the continuous advancement in technologies. Today, nearly everyone has a mobile phone or another smart mobile device with them at all times.

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DECEMBER 31, 2019

If you are targeted by a criminal online, then you risk losing everything— from your essential data to your reputation. The average cost of a global data breach cost has increased in 2019 and is now $3.92 Cyber-attacks are a huge problem for today’s businesses. That means that any breach could bankrupt your business. […].

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JULY 2, 2019

Before the end of the decade, the number of connected objects is projected to expand greatly. According to several different analysts, the number of connected objects by 2020 could be as low as 26 billion or as high as 50 billion. But even the low end of that range is quite large. Indeed, connectedness is […].

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Peter James Thomas

MAY 3, 2019

Data Architecture / Infrastructure. When I first started focussing on the data arena, Data Warehouses were state of the art. More recently Big Data architectures, including things like Data Lakes , have appeared and – at least in some cases – begun to add significant value.

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TDAN

APRIL 30, 2019

AI is a new buzzword in the corporate environment, and although 98% of companies are aiming to become data-driven, less than one third succeeded in 2018. There are multiple reasons behind this inability to adopt AI and data-driven approaches.

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