In a story I wrote earlier this year, I referenced how data protection can actually empower a new generation of app development. As part of this, I said that there’s no reason the backup function can’t play a vital role in helping companies drive innovation. How can backups help? I asserted that backups in a platform could be put to the following uses: Creating a metadata catalogUsing data crawlsEstablishing better search functionality within the dataServing as a…
Data lakes are cool, but you don’t have to jump in head-first. It’s easy to start by dipping a toe: Integrating a legacy data warehouse into a data lake leverages the structured systems that have been built over the years while taking advantage of the ever-increasing volume of unstructured data across the organization. A Familiar Structure Data warehouses are familiar. Generally, IT teams know how to work with them. Over the past two decades, companies…
