Is it time to Embrace a Hybrid Data Ecosystem?

From a data management strategy point of view, we all understand the critical importance of the enterprise data warehouse. Yet new business imperatives and new technologies have significantly changed the data management landscape, hereafter changing the role of the EDW.

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Data Virtualization Is Hot at the Gartner BI Summit

A Fantastic, Immersive Opportunity

Last week I attended the Gartner BI Summit in Los Angeles.  While I am an avid follower of Gartner’s Information Management, Analytics and BI research, it was great to hear this content directly from the analysts and gauge the reaction of the thousand plus attendees.

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What is Your Strategy for Data Virtualization?

Five Popular Data Virtualization Usage Patterns

Data virtualization is a versatile data integration solution that can be deployed to solve a wide range of data integration challenges.  Based on nearly ten years of successful implementations, several common usage patterns have emerged to help guide your enterprise’s data virtualization adoption strategy.

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Ten Mistakes to Avoid When Virtualizing Data – Part 1

In late 2008, I wrote the cover article for the November edition of Virtualization Journal. Ten Mistakes to Avoid When Virtualizing Data described the ten most common mistakes made by data virtualization’s early adopters. 

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Is the EDW Dead?

“The King is dead. Long live the King” is a traditional proclamation made following the accession of a new monarch. But what happens when the original king was highly revered and his successor brings foreign ways to the throne?

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Big Data Meets Data Virtualization

Not Your Grandfather’s Data Warehouse – Big Data and Virtualization Impact your EDW Architecture” is the title of a recent CIO.com blog by Brian Hopkins, a new analyst in Enterprise Architecture group at Forrester Research.  Brian makes some great points about how two key technologies, Big Data and Data Virtualization, are impacting information architecture strategies and changing the role of the enterprise data warehouse as we know it.

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Data Federation a Hit with Netezza Crowd

I spent the last three days at one of our key partner’s annual user conference, Netezza’s Enzee Universe. The place was buzzing with excitement.  I spent the better part of the three days hanging out at the Composite Booth at the conference exhibit area, also known as the Partner Galaxy.

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How to Add Agility to an Enterprise Data Warehouse?

EDWs Have Strengths and Limitations

Supporting critical, yet ever changing information requirements in an environment of ever increasing data volumes and data source complexity is a challenge well understood by our large enterprises and government agencies customers.

This inexorable pressure has and will continue to drive the demand for enterprise data warehouse (EDW) centric solutions to support the array of business intelligence applications that rely on data sourced from the EDW.

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