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Building a Data Lake for the Enterprise

Building a Data Lake for the Enterprise
Data lakes are forming as a response to today’s big data challenges, offering a cost-effective way to maintain and manage immense data resources that hold both current and future potential to the enterprise. However, enterprises need to build these environments with great care and consideration, as these potentially critical business resources could quickly lose their way with loose governance, insecure protocols, and redundant data. Download this special report to understand the key success factors.

MANAGING THE IOT DATA STORM

MANAGING THE IOT DATA STORM
For data managers and administrators, IoT presents new types of challenges to their jobs. The rising tide of data - in all its various forms - has been a challenge for some time now. Data managers have been responding with more hardware, more database tuning, more storage, and more cloud. But data keeps growing, and with the rise of IoT, it will grow geometrically. Download this special report for the key considerations you need to make as you begin your IoT journey.

THE EVOLUTION OF BIG DATA: NOSQL, HADOOP, SPARK & BEYOND

THE EVOLUTION OF BIG DATA: NOSQL, HADOOP, SPARK & BEYOND
Marking its 10th anniversary this year, Hadoop has evolved from a platform for batch processing large data sets to a robust ecosystem of next-generation technologies aimed at solving a myriad of real-world big data challenges today. From NoSQL databases, to open source projects like Spark, Hive, Drill, Kafka, Arrow and Storm, to commercial products offered on-premises and in the cloud, the future of big data is being driven by innovative new approaches across the data management lifecycle. The most pressing areas include real-time data processing, interactive analysis, data integration, data governance and security. Download this report for a better understanding of the current landscape, emerging best practices and real-world successes.

The In-Memory Revolution: Smarter Data Management and Analysis

The In-Memory Revolution: Smarter Data Management and Analysis
To compete in our global economy, businesses need to empower their users with faster access to actionable information and a better overall picture of their operations and opportunities. At the forefront of this journey to create value from data is in-memory processing. Download this report to learn the latest developments, best practices and case studies.

Succeeding With Data Discovery, Data Science, & Enterprise BI

Succeeding With Data Discovery, Data Science, & Enterprise BI
The desire to compete on analytics is driving the evaluation of new technologies on a large scale. Many businesses are currently starting down the path to modify their existing environments with new platforms and tools to better connect the dots between the data world and the business world. However, to be successful, the right mix of people, processes and technologies needs to be in place. This requires an analytical culture that empowers its users and improves its processes through both scalable and agile systems. Download this special report to learn about about the key technologies, strategies, best practices and pitfalls to avoid in the evolving world of BI and analytics.

DBTA Best Practices: Database Performance Today the Need for Speed and Scale

DBTA Best Practices: Database Performance Today the Need for Speed and Scale
Today, more than ever, businesses rely on IT to deliver a competitive edge. They want efficiency, agility and the ability to innovate. However, the reality is most IT departments are struggling just to keep the lights on. A recent Unisphere Research study found that the amount of resources spent on ongoing database management activities is impacting productivity at two-thirds of organizations across North America. The number one culprit is database performance.

Data Integration for the Modern Enterprise

Data Integration for the Modern Enterprise
The proliferation of data sources, types, and stores is increasing the challenge of combining data into meaningful, valuable information. While companies are investing in initiatives to increase the amount of data at their disposal, most spend more time finding the data they need rather than putting it to work. To truly expand their analytical capabilities, enterprises need new approaches to data integration that enable more flexible, agile, and efficient data management processes. Download this special report to learn about the key developments and emerging strategies in data integration today.

The FUTURE of DATA WAREHOUSING

The FUTURE of DATA WAREHOUSING
Download this special report to gain a deeper understanding of the current technology landscape, key challenges, and critical success factors in data warehousing today.

Hybrid Databases and Data Management

Hybrid Databases and Data Management
Download this special report to gain a deeper understanding of the key technologies and strategies.

DBTA Thought Leadership Series: Preparing for the Internet of Things

DBTA Thought Leadership Series: Preparing for the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things represents not only tremendous volumes of data, but new data sources and types, as well as new applications and use cases. To harness its value, businesses need efficient ways to store, process, and ana¬lyze that data, delivering it where and when it is needed to inform decision-making and business automation. Download this special report to understand the current state of the marketplace and the key data management technologies and practices paving the way.

Best Practices in Data Security and Compliance

Best Practices in Data Security and Compliance
Key extracts from Database Trends and Applications from the December print edition focus on "Data Security and Compliance".

DBTA Best Practices: Moving to a Modern Data Architecture
Underpinning the movement to compete on analytics, a major shift is taking place on the architectural level where data is captured, stored, and processed. This transformation is being driven by the need for more agile data management practices in the face of increasing volumes and varieties of data and the growing challenge of delivering that data where and when it is needed. Download this special report to get a deeper understanding of the key technologies and best practices shaping the modern data architecture.

Data Lake Adoption and Maturity Survey Findings Report

Data Lake Adoption and Maturity Survey Findings Report
Get your copy of the first comprehensive study on data lake adoption and maturity. By surveying both current and potential users in the marketplace, this new study from Unisphere Research and Radiant Advisors documents the key perceptions, practices, challenges and success factors in data lake deployment and usage.

DBTA Best Practices: Data Integration for the Modern Enterprise

DBTA Best Practices: Data Integration for the Modern Enterprise
The value of big data comes from its variety, but so, too, does its complexity. The proliferation of data sources, types, and stores is increasing the challenge of combining data into meaningful, valuable information. While companies are investing in initiatives to increase the amount of data at their disposal, most are spending more time finding the data they need than putting it to work. Download this special report to learn about the key developments and emerging strategies in data integration today.

DBTA Best Practices: New World Of Database Technologies

DBTA Best Practices: New World Of Database Technologies
Download this special report to guide you through the current landscape of databases to understand the right solution for your needs.

Succeeding with Big Data Analytics
From fraud detection to ad targeting, supply-chain optimization to campaign forecasting, the key use cases for big data require a successful analytics program. Businesses are investing heavily in initiatives that will increase the amount of data at their fingertips. In fact, the percentage of organizations with big data projects in production is expected to triple within the next 18 months according to a recent study from Unisphere Research. However, many businesses are spending more time finding needed data rather than analyzing it. To compete on analytics, the right mix of people, processes and technology needs to be in place to generate value. Download this special report to learn about the key technology solutions and strategies for succeeding with big data analytics today.

The In-Memory Revolution
Download this special report to learn the ins and outs, as well as the key products available in the marketplace.

The Future of Data Warehousing: 2015
A new data warehousing architecture is emerging, along with a new generation of technologies and best practices, to support the requirements of big data and the need for faster decision-making. To learn about the new technologies and strategies paving the way, download this special report today.

Going Hybrid, The Next Era of Data Management
To learn about the key technologies and approaches to hybrid databases and data environments, download this special report from Database Trends and Applications.

Preparing for the Internet of Things
Learn about the key technologies and best practices for the Internet of Things that are absolutely essential to new approaches for data management.

Moving to a Modern Data Architecture
Download this special report to learn about the essential components needed to go into building a modern data architecture.

Unleashing the Power of Hadoop for Big Data Analytics
Hadoop adoption is growing and the advantages of Hadoop are well-documented. This "Best Practices Series" white paper discusses the power of Hadoop and how to integrate Hadoop within your existing data management infrastructure and process.

Database Performance Today: The Need for Speed and Scale
This special report covers the key technologies and services available to overcome the database speed and scalability challenges of today.

Data Integration: Faster, Easier, Smarter
Download this special report to learn about the key developments in the data integration marketplace and how new solutions are helping companies overcome big data challenges.

New Database Technologies
Download this special report to read about the current state of the database marketplace and learn about the new technologies that are helping businesses address these challenges.

Enabling the Real-Time Enterprise
Download this special report to learn about the new technologies that are enabling real-time information processing. Read about the seven qualities of highly effective real-time enterprises, and explore insights into data modeling and NoSQL and in-memory databases.

The New World of Business Intelligence and Analytics
Business intelligence and analytics has undergone a revolutionary shift over the past few years, a transition that is still working its way through enterprises and their processes. Download this report for the steps to success in the new world of business intelligence and analytics.

CLOUD DATABASES ON THE RISE
While traditional concerns about data security and compliance still have some enterprises watching from the sideline, for many enterprises, the advantages of cloud databases are becoming harder and harder to ignore.

The Future of Data Warehousing
Download this report to learn about the new data warehousing architecture that is emerging, along with a new generation of technologies and best practices, to support the requirements of big data and the need for faster decision making.

Managing Big Data: THE NEXT GENERATION OF SOLUTIONS
Many relational database and data warehouse environments are opening to unstructured data, running in clouds, and supporting caches that enable real-time- or near real-time-decision making.