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Metadata, the Neglected Stepchild of IT

Data Virtualization

Reading Time: 3 minutes While cleaning up our archive recently, I found an old article published in 1976 about data dictionary/directory systems (DD/DS). Nowadays, we no longer use the term DD/DS, but “data catalog” or simply “metadata system”. It was written by L.

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The Top Three Entangled Trends in Data Architectures: Data Mesh, Data Fabric, and Hybrid Architectures

Cloudera

Each of these trends claim to be complete models for their data architectures to solve the “everything everywhere all at once” problem. Data teams are confused as to whether they should get on the bandwagon of just one of these trends or pick a combination. First, we describe how data mesh and data fabric could be related.

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Top 10 Metadata Management Influencers, Sites, and Blogs You Must Follow in 2021

Octopai

Aptly named, metadata management is the process in which BI and Analytics teams manage metadata, which is the data that describes other data. In other words, data is the context and metadata is the content. Without metadata, BI teams are unable to understand the data’s full story.

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Metadata Improves Security, Quality, and Transparency

TDAN

They use data better. How does Spotify win against a competitor like Apple? Using machine learning and AI, Spotify creates value for their users by providing a more personalized experience.

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Metadata is the Magic Behind Data Fabric

TDAN

The main goal of creating an enterprise data fabric is not new. It is the ability to deliver the right data at the right time, in the right shape, and to the right data consumer, irrespective of how and where it is stored. Data fabric is the common “net” that stitches integrated data from multiple data […].

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Data Governance in a Data Mesh or Data Fabric Architecture

Data Virtualization

Reading Time: 2 minutes Data mesh is a modern, distributed data architecture in which different domain based data products are owned by different groups within an organization. And data fabric is a self-service data layer that is supported in an orchestrated fashion to serve.

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AI at Scale isn’t Magic, it’s Data – Hybrid Data

Cloudera

A recent VentureBeat article , “4 AI trends: It’s all about scale in 2022 (so far),” highlighted the importance of scalability. The article goes on to share insights from experts at Gartner, PwC, John Deere, and Cloudera that shine a light on the critical role that data plays in scaling AI. . Data science needs analytics.