Handling large amounts of data is a prerequisite of digital transformation, and key to this are the concepts of data lakes and data warehouses, as well as data hubs and data marts.
In this article, we’ll start at the top of that hierarchy and look at data lakes. As organisations try to get a grip of their data and to wring as much value from it as they can, the data lake is a core concept.
It’s an area of data management and analysis that depends on storage – sometimes lots of it – and it’s an activity that’s ripe for a move to the cloud, but can also be handled on-premise.
