The increasing importance of intelligent operational applications driven by artificial intelligence (AI) is blurring the lines that have traditionally divided the requirements between operational and analytic data platforms. Operational data platforms have traditionally been deployed to support applications targeted at business users and decision-makers to run the business, with analytic data platforms typically supporting applications used by data and business analysts to analyze the business.
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Topics:
embedded analytics,
Cloud Computing,
AI & Machine Learning,
Analytics & Data,
analytic data platforms,
Operational Data Platforms
In recent years, many enterprises have migrated data platform workloads from on-premises infrastructure to cloud environments, attracted by the promised benefits of greater agility and lower costs. The scale of cloud data platform adoption is illustrated by Ventana Research’s Data Lakes Dynamic Insights research: For two-thirds (66%) of participants, the primary data platform used for analytics is cloud based. As the quantity and importance of the data platform workloads deployed in the cloud...
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Topics:
business intelligence,
Cloud Computing,
data operations,
AI & Machine Learning,
robotic automation,
Analytics & Data,
analytic data platforms
Discussion about potential deployment locations for analytics and data workloads is often based on the assumption that, for enterprise workloads, there is a binary choice between on-premises data centers and public cloud. However, the low-latency performance or sovereignty characteristics of a significant and growing proportion of workloads make them better suited to data and analytics processing where data is generated rather than a centralized on-premises or public cloud environment. ...
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Topics:
Cloud Computing,
Internet of Things,
Data,
Digital Technology,
AI & Machine Learning,
Analytics & Data,
analytic data platforms,
Operational Data Platforms
I recently discussed how fashion has a surprisingly significant role to play in the data market as various architectural approaches to data storage and processing take turns enjoying a phase in the limelight. Pendulum swing is a theory of fashion that describes the periodic movement of trends between two extremes, such as short and long hemlines or skinny and baggy/flared trousers. Pendulum swing theory is similarly a factor in data technology trends, with an example being the oscillation...
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Topics:
Analytics,
Cloud Computing,
Data Management,
Data,
Digital Technology,
data operations,
AI & Machine Learning,
Analytics & Data
I previously described how Oracle had positioned its database portfolio to address any and all data platform requirements. The caveat to that statement at the time was that any organization wanting to take advantage of the company’s flagship Oracle Autonomous Database could only do so using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) cloud computing service, their own datacenter or a hybrid cloud environment. The widespread popularity of Oracle Database and the advanced automation capabilities delivered...
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Topics:
Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Cloud Computing,
Data Management,
Data,
Digital Technology,
AI & Machine Learning,
Analytics & Data,
analytic data platforms,
Operational Data Platforms
I recently articulated some of the reasons why IT teams can fail to deliver on the business requirements for data and analytics projects. This is an age-old and multifaceted problem that is not easily solved. Organizations have a role to play in alleviating the issue by ensuring that their business processes and project planning support a collaborative approach in which business and IT professionals work together. Data and analytics product vendors can also help by delivering products that are...
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Topics:
Cloud Computing,
Data Governance,
Data Management,
Data,
Digital Technology,
AI & Machine Learning,
Analytics & Data
I have previously written about the functional evolution and emerging use cases for NoSQL databases, a category of non-relational databases that first emerged 15 or so years ago and are now well established as potential alternatives to relational databases. NoSQL is a term used to describe a variety of databases that fall into four primary functional categories: key-value stores, wide-column stores, document-oriented databases and graph databases. Each is worthy of further exploration, which is...
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Cloud Computing,
Data,
Digital Technology,
Analytics & Data,
Operational Data Platforms
I previously wrote about the challenge facing distributed SQL database providers to avoid becoming pigeonholed as only being suitable for a niche set of requirements. Factors including performance, reliability, security and scalability provide a focal point for new vendors to differentiate from established providers and get a foot in the door with customer accounts. Expanding and retaining those accounts is not necessarily easy, however, especially as general-purpose data platform providers...
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Topics:
Analytics,
Cloud Computing,
Data,
Digital Technology,
AI & Machine Learning,
Analytics & Data,
Streaming Data & Events,
analytic data platforms
The data platforms market may appear to have little or nothing to do with haute couture, but it is one of the data sectors most strongly influenced by the fickle finger of fashion. In recent years, various architectural approaches to data storage and processing have enjoyed a phase in the limelight, including data warehouse, data mart, data hub, data lake, cloud data warehouse, object storage, data lakehouse, data fabric and data mesh. These approaches are often heralded as the next big thing,...
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Topics:
Cloud Computing,
Data Governance,
Data Management,
Data,
Digital Technology,
data operations,
AI & Machine Learning,
Analytics & Data,
Streaming Data & Events,
analytic data platforms,
Operational Data Platforms
I have written before about the rising popularity of the data fabric approach for managing and governing data spread across distributed environments comprised of multiple data centers, systems and applications. I assert that by 2025, more than 6 in 10 organizations will adopt data fabric technologies to facilitate the management and processing of data across multiple data platforms and cloud environments. The data fabric approach is also proving attractive to vendors, including Microsoft, as a...
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Topics:
business intelligence,
Analytics,
Cloud Computing,
Data Governance,
Data Management,
Data,
Digital Technology,
AI & Machine Learning,
Analytics & Data,
analytic data platforms