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What is data architecture? A framework to manage data

CIO Business Intelligence

Data architecture definition Data architecture describes the structure of an organizations logical and physical data assets, and data management resources, according to The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). An organizations data architecture is the purview of data architects. Optimize data flows for agility.

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Navigating the cloud maze: A 5-phase approach to optimizing cloud strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

In todays fast-paced digital landscape, the cloud has emerged as a cornerstone of modern business infrastructure, offering unparalleled scalability, agility, and cost-efficiency. As organizations increasingly migrate to the cloud, however, CIOs face the daunting challenge of navigating a complex and rapidly evolving cloud ecosystem.

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Trade routes of the digital age: How data gravity shapes cloud strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

However, trade along the Silk Road was not just a matter of distance; it was shaped by numerous constraints much like todays data movement in cloud environments. Merchants had to navigate complex toll systems imposed by regional rulers, much as cloud providers impose egress fees that make it costly to move data between platforms.

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Agentic AI design: An architectural case study

CIO Business Intelligence

A company that adopts agentic AI will gain competitive advantages in innovation, efficiency and responsiveness and may become more agile in operations. Stephen Kaufman serves as a chief architect in the Microsoft Customer Success Unit Office of the CTO focusing on AI and cloud computing. There are many reasons to build your own.

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Partner Webinar: A Framework for Building Data Mesh Architecture

Speaker: Jeremiah Morrow, Nicolò Bidotti, and Achille Barbieri

Yet they are continually challenged with providing access to all of their data across business units, regions, and cloud environments. How Agile Lab and Enel Group used Dremio to connect their disparate organizations across geographies and business units. Leveraging Dremio for data governance and multi-cloud with Arrow Flight.

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IBM: 78% of mainframe shops are piloting, operating AI apps

Network World

IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV), in collaboration with Oxford Economics, surveyed 2,551 global IT executives to determine how mainframes are being used and prepped for increased use in AI and hybrid cloud environments. Most enterprises have built tech estates on hybrid cloud architecture, the researchers stated. “In

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From legacy to lakehouse: Centralizing insurance data with Delta Lake

CIO Business Intelligence

I believe that the fundamental design principles behind these systems, being siloed, batch-focused, schema-rigid and often proprietary, are inherently misaligned with the demands of our modern, agile, data-centric and AI-enabled insurance industry. This is where Delta Lakehouse architecture truly shines.

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The Next-Generation Cloud Data Lake: An Open, No-Copy Data Architecture

To address this, a next-gen cloud data lake architecture has emerged that brings together the best attributes of the data warehouse and the data lake. This new open data architecture is built to maximize data access with minimal data movement and no data copies.

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Monitoring AWS Container Environments at Scale

Particularly well-suited for microservice-oriented architectures and agile workflows, containers help organizations improve developer efficiency, feature velocity, and optimization of resources. Containers power many of the applications we use every day.