The Disruptive Potential Of Open Data Lakehouse Architectures And IBM Watsonx.Data
IBM News, Wednesday, June 14,2023
There's no debate that the volume and variety of data is exploding and that the associated costs are rising rapidly. The proliferation of data silos also inhibits the unification and enrichment of data which is essential to unlocking the new insights.
Moreover, increased regulatory requirements make it harder for enterprises to democratize data access and scale the adoption of analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). Against this challenging backdrop, the sense of urgency has never been higher for businesses to leverage AI for competitive advantage.
The open data lakehouse solution
Previous attempts at addressing some of these challenges have failed to meet their promise. Enter the open data lakehouse. It is comprised of commodity cloud object storage, open data and open table formats, and high-performance open-source query engines.