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Teradata CTO pours cold water on lakehouse concept

Despite industry efforts to get both data exploration and business analysis workloads onto a single “lakehouse” system, separate data lakes…

Oct 18, 2022 Yves Mulkers 65M views 3 min read

Q&A: How Data Science Fits into the Cloud Spend Equation

The work of data science teams can be intertwined with cloud and other tech assets, which can make them part…

Aug 28, 2022 Yves Mulkers 22M views 3 min read

The rise of the data lakehouse: A new era of data value

With 65 million vaccine doses to administer at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Luigi Guadagno, CIO of Walgreens, needed…

Aug 22, 2022 Yves Mulkers 11M views 4 min read

Tips to plan storage elements of artificial intelligence

Organizations create more data than ever before. Newer, faster technologies and storage systems have risen to the challenge, but the…

Aug 4, 2022 Yves Mulkers 44M views 4 min read

Databricks promises cheap cloud data warehousing

Databricks, the company born out of the Apache Spark boom, has let loose a raft of updates at its San…

Jul 16, 2022 Yves Mulkers 2.4M views 3 min read

Who manages data lakes and what skills are needed?

Among the most common components of modern data architecture is the use of a data lake, which is a location…

Apr 3, 2022 Yves Mulkers 29M views 3 min read

Apache Arrow: driving columnar analytics performance and connectivity

Big data has come a long way since MapReduce. Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat’s 2004 paper from Google gave birth…

Feb 7, 2022 Yves Mulkers 60M views 3 min read

Snowflake, AWS Warm Up to Apache Iceberg

Apache Iceberg, the table format that ensures consistency and streamlines data partitioning in demanding analytic environments, is being adopted by…

Feb 5, 2022 Yves Mulkers 46M views 3 min read

Top 10 Most In-Demand Skills in the World of Data Science

Hindsight is always 20/20, but someone needs to be looking into the future before it gets here. That’s the role…

Jan 29, 2022 Yves Mulkers 60M views 3 min read

Compare Hadoop vs. Spark vs. Kafka for your big data strategy

Big data became popular about a decade ago. The falling cost of storage led many enterprises to retain much of…

Nov 21, 2021 Yves Mulkers 33M views 3 min read