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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. Ensure security and access controls.

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The key to operational AI: Modern data architecture

CIO Business Intelligence

The team should be structured similarly to traditional IT or data engineering teams. To succeed, Operational AI requires a modern data architecture. This team serves as the primary point of contact when issues arise with models—the go-to experts when something isn’t working.

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Comprehensive data management for AI: The next-gen data management engine that will drive AI to new heights

CIO Business Intelligence

Imagine that you’re a data engineer. These challenges are quite common for the data engineers and data scientists we speak to. That’s why we’re introducing a new disaggregated architecture that will enable our customers to continue pushing the boundaries of performance and scale.

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Equinix to cut 3% of staff amidst the greatest demand for data center infrastructure ever

Network World

Skills in architecture are also in high demand, as power-hungry AI systems require rethinking of data center design. Additionally, the industry is looking for workers with knowledge of cloud architecture and engineering, data analytics, management, and governance skills.

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Top Considerations for Building an Open Cloud Data Lake

Increasingly, enterprises are leveraging cloud data lakes as the platform used to store data for analytics, combined with various compute engines for processing that data. The primary architectural principles of a true cloud data lake, including a loosely coupled architecture and open file formats and table structures.

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SD-WAN to gain AI-driven deployment, management capabilities

Network World

For starters, generative AI capabilities will improve how enterprise IT teams deploy and manage their SD-WAN architecture. For example, high amounts of both downlink and uplink traffic, bursty workloads, and in some cases, the need for real-time delivery of data across a distributed AI engine, he says.

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Are Your Firewalls and VPNs the Weakest Link in Your Security Stack?

Network World

Zero Trust architecture was created to solve the limitations of legacy security architectures. It’s the opposite of a firewall and VPN architecture, where once on the corporate network everyone and everything is trusted. In today’s digital age, cybersecurity is no longer an option but a necessity.

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

However, they often struggle with increasingly larger data volumes, reverting back to bottlenecking data access to manage large numbers of data engineering requests and rising data warehousing costs. This new open data architecture is built to maximize data access with minimal data movement and no data copies.

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Why Distributed Tracing is Essential for Performance and Reliability

Speaker: Daniel "spoons" Spoonhower, CTO and Co-Founder at Lightstep

Many engineering organizations have now adopted microservices or other loosely coupled architectures, often alongside DevOps practices. Prioritize engineering work by putting it in the context of end user experience. However, this increased velocity often comes at the cost of overall application performance or reliability.

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Microservices: The Dark Side

Speaker: Prem Chandrasekaran

In his best-selling book Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, Martin Fowler famously coined the first law of distributed computing—"Don’t distribute your objects"—implying that working with this style of architecture can be challenging. How these strategies can be applied in different size engineering organizations.