As organizations look to build out more complex digital frameworks, breaking down data silos is essential. But there’s a catch: As data analysts, data scientists and others work across various groups, ...

AI agents need access to data across cloud, on-premises and edge environments. Borderless data architectures bring modern AI capabilities to data that can’t move.

In today’s evolving technological landscape, a solid understanding of the progression of data and application architecture is an important part of the technology leader’s role. By embracing modern ...

Successful pipelines can create a governance failure when a definition changes without downstream users knowing about it.​ ...

TiDB is a prime example of an intrinsically scalable and reliable distributed SQL database architecture. Here’s how it works. In the good old days, databases had a relatively simple job: help with the ...

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An open, services-oriented approach has clear advantages for building modular and scalable applications. We should take the same approach to our data. Data analytics solutions are continuing to emerge ...

Simply put, microservices aren't monoliths. And although many microservices are based on them, they are not just container-based applications. Microservices are vastly different than what most ...

Data fabric, data lakehouse, and data mesh have recently appeared as viable alternatives to the modern data warehouse. “It’s amazing to see some of these technologies come back around,” Serra said.

To meet the needs of the digital economy of the 2020s, data architecture has evolved into a dif­ferent animal than it was 10, or even 5, years ago. Most notably, there are three trends that have ...

Many people believe data architecture and information architecture are one and the same. But this misconception among data management leaders and their teams results in poorly designed architectures ...

Data center architectures are becoming increasingly customized and heterogeneous, shifting from processors made by a single vendor to a mix of processors and accelerators made by multiple vendors — ...