Truth behind data lakes

In a recent article, Gartner warns that providers are using data lakes with no alignment with what it actually means to a business and feel this new term is causing confusion.

According to Nick Heudecker, research director at Gartner, he states in an article in Information Age that "In broad terms, data lakes are marketed as enterprise-wide data management platforms for analysing disparate sources of data in its native format". He goes on to say “The idea is simple: instead of placing data in a purpose-built data store, you move it into a data lake in its original format…This eliminates the upfront costs of data ingestion, like transformation. Once data is placed into the lake, it's available for analysis by everyone in the organisation."

However, Gartner warns that data lakes run the risk of becoming a dumping ground that are left unmanaged and ungoverned. For further information on data lakes, please click here

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