Data Mesh and Unified Data Access Governance
In her groundbreaking article, How to Move Beyond a Monolithic Data Lake to a Distributed Data Mesh, Zhamak Dehghani made the…
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Data Architecture Articles
Data Mesh and Data Fabrics
Today’s enterprise data landscape is very complex. Data is coming to the enterprise from everywhere and anywhere at high speed…
DB2 and Nulls are Much Ado About Nothing
A null represents missing or unknown information at the column level. A null is not the same as 0 (zero)…
Database Security Best Practices
Risk-Based Security’s 2020 Q3 study indicates that between January and September 2020, about 36 billion databases were hacked. While this…
Have We Forgotten the Purpose of Technology in Business?
Fundamentally, the purpose of technology in business is to manage the treasure trove of data captured within sophisticated technological systems.…
Business Pace Contributes to Data Challenges
The increasing speed and pace of business certainly contributes to several data challenges (quality, timeliness, availability and, most important, usability…
None Shall Pass! Are Your Database Standards Too Rigid?
Rigidly adhering to a standard, any standard, without being reasonable and using your ability to think through changing situations and circumstances…
Converting Big Data into Actionable Intelligence
In today’s world, access to data is no longer a problem. There are such huge volumes of data generated in…
Metadata Improves Security, Quality, and Transparency
How does Spotify win against a competitor like Apple? They use data better. Using machine learning and AI, Spotify creates…
Is Artificial Intelligence a Problem or an Opportunity?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to have reached its peak, and yet it is still growing and reaching even the most…