Octopai

DECEMBER 12, 2021

What enables you to use all those gigabytes and terabytes of data you’ve collected? Metadata is the pertinent, practical details about data assets: what they are, what to use them for, what to use them with. Without metadata, data is just a heap of numbers and letters collecting dust. Where does metadata come from?

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Alation

JANUARY 13, 2022

Spoiler alert: data fabric and data mesh are independent design concepts that are, in fact, quite complementary. Data fabric has captured most of the limelight; it focuses on the technologies required to support metadata-driven use cases across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Gartner on Data Fabric.

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Alation

JANUARY 25, 2022

As a reminder, here’s Gartner’s definition of data fabric: “A design concept that serves as an integrated layer (fabric) of data and connecting processes. In this blog, we will focus on the “integrated layer” part of this definition by examining each of the key layers of a comprehensive data fabric in more detail.

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