Data Lake

To support the research mission Saving Your Data Lake, we’re speaking with various companies to capture their perspectives on why and how data lakes fail. Arcadia Data has experience using data inside the data lake in a new way that allows analysts to interact directly with data in what they call a data native mode […]

January 31, 2018

To support the research mission Saving Your Data Lake, we’re speaking with various companies to capture their perspectives on why and how data lakes fail. During our conversations with Podium Data, we discussed three main failure modes of data lakes: Polluted data lakes A polluted data lake occurs when many pilot projects with many tools […]

January 30, 2018

Operational Intelligence refers to a new category of methods and technology for gaining visibility into business operations, discovering insights, and then rapidly taking effective action, frequently through automation. Operational Intelligence refers to a new category of methods and technology for gaining visibility into business operations, discovering insights, and then rapidly taking effective action, frequently through […]

December 9, 2017

A large amount of data is now being created by Web servers, point of sale systems, RFID sensors, networks, and a variety of other systems that have long been used by people in the data center for diagnostic purposes and for performance analysis. A large amount of data is now being created by Web servers, […]

December 9, 2017

Imagine that all your business apps were people, seated in an auditorium ready to hear a speech. Here’s what I would say to them about machine data: Imagine that all your business apps were people, seated in an auditorium ready to hear a speech. Here’s what I would say to them about machine data: “Business […]

December 9, 2017

How people can use a data fabric like Splunk to take machine data and use it to improve operational intelligence In the first article in this series, I explained what machine data is and how it can help business applications. In this article, I explain how people can use a data fabric like Splunk to […]

December 9, 2017

Wal-Mart had a big data problem before it was called “big data.” So did McDonald’s and any number of other massive companies. Big Data Problems From very early on, Wal-Mart had a big data problem, before it was called “big data.” So did McDonald’s and any number of other massive companies. These companies also had […]

December 9, 2017