Category: Artificial Intelligence

Feed: Alation. Author: Raja Perumal. Raja Perumal Alation, data and analytics, data catalog, data collaboration, data management, Looker September 17, 2020— Today, we are excited to announce our collaboration with Looker. Looker provides a modern platform for data & analytics used by more than 2,000 customers. By using Alation with Looker, you can easily find and understand trusted data to use for creating powerful data experiences. Alation provides one place to search & discover data and surface intelligent suggestions that point to the most relevant, trusted information and guidance on how to use it. With Alation, Looker users can always ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Nolan Necoechea. Nolan Necoechea CDO, CDO 4.0, chief data officer, data management, Gartner September 1, 2020— What is CDO 4.0? Recently, Gartner released a classification that defines a new ideal mindset for Chief Data Officers (CDOs)— what Gartner is calling “CDO 4.0.” In Gartner’s words, this new type of CDO should have a focus on their organization’s core product, moving beyond internal projects and programs, and even digital transformation. Here is Gartner’s CDO progression: CDO 1.0: Focused exclusively in data management CDO 2.0: Started to embrace analytics CDO 3.0: Driving digital transformation CDO 4.0: Product-centric Gartner lays ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Peter Wang. Peter Wang compliance, data assets, data catalog, data lineage, data quality, data security, data sources, manta August 20, 2020— As data grows in complexity, data lineage becomes critical to understanding, securing, and properly using data to drive effective business decisions. There are three long standing challenges with data lineage. First, traditional approaches to data lineage require a significant amount of manual effort to document and maintain. Second, incomplete lineage means data engineers are unable to identify who and what data is impacted by their changes. Third, knowledge about data lineage is usually limited to a ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Robert Seiner. Robert Seiner data catalog, data governance, data management, data stewardship, non-invasive data governance August 20, 2020— This article is the second of a five-part series on data governance from Robert S. Seiner of KIK Consulting & TDAN.com. Your People Already Govern Data I often start my live presentation by asking the question: “By show of hands, how many of your organizations are governing your data?” I typically see a few hands go up, but no one waves emphatically as if saying, “Whoopee, we govern our data!” I say, “I am going to ask that question ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Paige Bartley. Paige Bartley data analysis, data catalog, data governance, data management, data silos, data sources, metadata management July 21, 2020— Many are familiar with a certain TV show where the premise of each episode was to take several widely held beliefs or pieces of lore, and then put them to the test in a lighthearted and (arguably) scientific manner. At the end of the day, was the belief confirmed, busted or plausible? Today in the data catalog market, it seems as if we might need some ‘mythbusting’ of our own. Metadata management has gained traction as ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Glenn Sanders. Lidar technologies are the cool thing for autonomous vehicle (AV) developers. Why? Because lidar is less expensive, lighter, smaller, and takes less power than cameras that capture visible light. In addition, lidar can be designed to capture a point cloud of data to produce a 3D representation of the vehicle’s surroundings. Let’s take a look at what Waymo is doing with lidar. Jaguar fully self-driving I-PACE electric SUV 1 Source: Waymo From gangly prototypes to sleeker AVs As you may know, Waymo began life in 2009 as the Google self-driving car project. When ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Robert Seiner. Robert Seiner data catalog, data governance, data management, data stewardship, non-invasive data governance July 23, 2020— This article is the first of a five-part series on data governance from Robert S. Seiner of KIK Consulting & TDAN.com. Three Types of Data Governance There are three distinct approaches to implementing data governance in an organization. The first approach is labeled as the “Command and Control”-approach and follows the notion that people must be assigned to be data stewards, immediately making the role feel like it is over-and-above the activities already called for in a person’s job ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Mike Kelly. For the past 6 years, we’ve built a strong partnership with VMware to deliver dozens of our metric monitoring integrations to VMware vRealize® Operations customers. Over that time, the True Visibility Suite of products has become a critical piece of the vRealize Operations landscape. It unlocks the power of vRealize Operations for customers looking to manage their entire enterprise stack from a single tool. Due to the success of the relationship and a desire to provide a seamless process for our shared customers, VMware acquired the True Visibility Suite from Blue Medora and will ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Carol Volk. New Strategy Provides Disruptive Open Source Observability Solutions for DevOps and ITOps  GRAND RAPIDS, MI. – July 21, 2020 – observIQ, a global leader of open source observability solutions for DevOps and ITOps, is being unveiled today. Blue Medora is launching this new brand after VMware’s acquisition of its True Visibility Suite team and products. With a specific focus on developing next-generation agent technologies, observIQ leverages over a decade of expertise in logs and metrics monitoring to emerge as a disruptor in the observability space. A key component of that strategy is observIQ’s high ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Nolan Necoechea. Nolan Necoechea July 14, 2020— Nolan Necoechea, Alation: Hi, Kiran. Thanks for speaking with me today. Could you talk about what is being announced today? Kiran Narsu, VP of business development, Alation: Happy to do so. Today we are announcing the launch of the Alation Partner Network. The Alation Partner Network or APN builds on the work we have done with scores of partners to create an ecosystem of technology partners, system integrators, and resellers. The APN is designed to provide customers with best-of-breed solutions to improve the effectiveness of their enterprise data and analytics ... Read More