Navigating Data Lake Challenges: Governance, Security, and GDPR Compliance
insideBIGDATA, Thursday, September 7,2023
Data lakes are becoming a crucial strategy for data management, with 62% of organizations in the production, proof-of-concept or pilot stage with their data lakes. Another 25% of organizations indicate they plan to implement a data lake within three years, according to 451 Research. Data lakes enable organizations to store and analyze diverse data from multiple applications with unmatched flexibility.
But that flexibility also makes it much harder to find specific data across applications and support governance and GDPR compliance. A single Right to Be Forgotten request can require searching multiple databases while using extensive compute resources. Using data effectively is even more challenging when organizations land their data in an unstructured form without creating the infrastructure to manage that data down the road. Here are a few areas to focus on to make a data lake more useful.