Andrew White

MARCH 31, 2023

What I Did at the Conference I had the pleasure and opportunity to present to attendees four times: An overview of our modern data and analytics strategy and operating model. A workshop that helps diagnostically map specific data to specific business outcomes. I hosted 25 1-1s in between the meetings and presentations.

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Andrew White

JANUARY 9, 2022

On Thursday January 6th I hosted Gartner’s 2022 Leadership Vision for Data and Analytics webinar. Data mesh seems to mean a network of systems and hubs connected to help cope with silos. Perhaps a data mesh is what a pure architecture might design. Here is the link to the replay, in case you are interested.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 29, 2024

Instrumentation library: OTel provides an instrumentation model that runs on all platforms. Benefits of OpenTelemetry The OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP) simplifies observability by collecting telemetry data, like metrics, logs and traces, without changing code or metadata.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In this blog, we’ll do the same with data mesh, unpacking the four key pillars, with a few notes on the role of the data catalog. While data fabric takes a product-and-tech-centric approach, data mesh takes a completely different perspective. That model has failed to support rapid data growth. ” 1.

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Cloudera

JUNE 6, 2019

The typical Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub Cluster starts with a few dozen nodes in the customer’s datacenter hosting a variety of distributed services. Over time, workloads start processing more data, tenants start onboarding more workloads, and administrators (admins) start onboarding more tenants. Cloudera Manager (CM) 6.2

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Cloudera

JANUARY 21, 2021

With CDW, as an integrated service of CDP, your line of business gets immediate resources needed for faster application launches and expedited data access, all while protecting the company’s multi-year investment in centralized data management, security, and governance. Start self-service ad-hoc data warehousing.

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Alation

JANUARY 17, 2023

Data would be pulled from various sources, organized into, say, a table, and loaded into a data warehouse for mass consumption. This was not only time-consuming, but the growing popularity of cloud data warehouses compelled people to rethink this process. An example of a data science tool is Dataiku.

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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. Our organization is struggling with the guardrails between the data governance and management concepts. Here’s an example.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In legacy analytical systems such as enterprise data warehouses, the scalability challenges of a system were primarily associated with computational scalability, i.e., the ability of a data platform to handle larger volumes of data in an agile and cost-efficient way. Limited flexibility to use more complex hosting models (e.g.,

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Jet Global

MAY 1, 2023

These licensing terms are critical: Perpetual license vs subscription: Subscription is a pay-as-you-go model that provides flexibility as you evaluate a vendor. Pricing model: The pricing scale is dependent on several factors. Let’s just give our customers access to the data. Perpetual, by contrast, is paid up front.

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