
A Data Hub is not the same as a Data Lake or Data Warehouse
by Andrew White | November 7, 2018
Despite our best efforts we still receive lots of inquiries from organizations that confuse and conflate data hubs with data lakes and data warehouses. In truth, the term "data hub"...

What is a Data Hub? Shucks – Piccadilly Circus!
by Andrew White | August 16, 2018
It seems that introducing a data hub strategy a couple of years ago was both good and bad. For some clients we put a name to something that makes total...

Open – For Business – At the ASF
by Merv Adrian | March 27, 2018
The Apache Software Foundation is about to celebrate an anniversary, and its extraordinary contribution to the economic refactoring of software stacks seems to be gaining more momentum with every passing...

New Data and Analytics Research: Getting Value from Using Data Lakes
by Andrew White | September 27, 2017
Svetlana Sicular and her colleagues just published Derive Value From Data Lakes Using Analytics Design Patterns.
Data and analytics leaders are feeling the pressure of rapidly increasing amounts of unprocessed data...


From Data Lakes to Data Cakes
by Andrew White | February 14, 2017
To assure you that Gartner analysts are human and have a wry sense of humor, last Friday I was wrapping up my day. I had just taken a briefing from...

Emerging Data Lake Era Next Practices?
by Andrew White | November 9, 2016
Already after just a few years of excitement and enthusiasm for data lakes, it is quite clear that there are a few areas where many organizations are struggling to...

Symposium Notes – Day Four Returns to Data Security, and to Hadoop
by Merv Adrian | October 26, 2016
Thursday, the final day, reinforced a theme for the week: data security is heating up, and organizations are not ready. It came up in half of today’s final 10 meetings....

Symposium Notes - Day Three Features Data Assembly
by Merv Adrian | October 24, 2016
With 24 meetings under my belt from the first two days at Orlando Symposium, Wednesday’s 13 (and a presentation) didn’t look quite as daunting. It began well, with enough time...

New Research: Best Practices for Designing Your Data Lake
by Andrew White | October 20, 2016
My colleague Nick Heudecker just published Best Practices for Designing Your Data Lake.
Data lakes fail when they lack governance, self-disciplined users and a rational data flow. Successful data lakes require...