Funeral for the data lake

We explore how thinking is changing on the effectiveness of a data and analytics strategy based on an all-purpose data lake and ask if it is time to read the last rites and adopt an alternative approach to reinvigorate data utility across the corporate enterprise.

Back in the 2010s, the “after hours” boasting among big corporates tended to revolve around the size, maturity and number of data lakes that your enterprise had created. The “infra” gurus littered their dialogue with mentions of nodes, clusters and the “H-word” (Hadoop).

Riding on this mania were the big

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