Many organizations nowadays are struggling with finding the appropriate data stores for their data. Let’s zoom in on some key data structures to facilitate corporate decision making by means of ...

Data lakes and data warehouses are two of the most popular forms of data storage and processing platforms, both of which can be employed to improve a business’s use of information. However, these ...

Data lake is a newer IT term created for a new category of data store. But just what is a data lake? According to IBM, “a data lake is a storage repository that holds an enormous amount of raw or ...

Every college and university has data storage needs, and student records are just the beginning. IT systems demand storage as well: Internet logs, security events, building systems, security cameras ...

Choosing the right data management solution comes with a long list of considerations for district IT teams, including where to start. Banks, co-host of the Packet Pushers Podcast, has been managing ...

At the 2nd Annual Semantic Layer Summit, which took place April 26, AtScale founder and CTO Dave Mariani sat down with Bill Inmon, recognized by many as the father of the data warehouse, to discuss ...

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Kenneth Harris, a NASA veteran who worked on the James Webb Space Telescope, shares how hardware and software ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Data lakes are cool, but you don’t have to jump in head-first. It’s easy to start by dipping ...

Data warehouse systems have been at the center of many big data initiatives going as far back as the 1980s. Today companies from leading cloud hyperscalers such as Amazon Web Services (Redshift) and ...

I work at a startup and our data is very messy at the moment, as you might imagine. We have a few product level transactional databases, but no central database to store it all in a useful way for ...