How to Build a Data Catalog to Smartly Exploit Your Data Assets

The global spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and the economic impact that followed has prompted many businesses to furlough the workforce or migrate from the traditional office to remote-working environments. The volatile landscape has created incremental risks, especially for organizations heavily relying on IT Sec/Ops teams to monitor security and privacy and enforce regulatory compliance.

Businesses today need fast, scalable, and agile data and analytics, and cloud-based solutions are proving critical to satisfying these requirements. They enable organizations to rapidly and easily spin up systems and services for collecting, managing, and analyzing data. More important, cloud-based solutions deliver value from “data gravity”the surging volumes of new data created in the cloud by social media, the IoT, multichannel customer behavior, and other activity.

As reported in Forbes last year, 73% of companies are planning to move to a fully software-defined data center within two years. A software-defined data center is based on a virtualized environment of compute, storage, networking and security in conjunction with policy-based management and automation. The evolution from a traditional data center architecture to one that is software-defined can take months if not years but can yield immense benefits for the business. Join us for a discussion on the progress toward the fully software-defined data center, including benefits of infrastructure as code and overcoming challenges associated with traditional workflows.

As the demand for data has grown, data workflows and processes have become increasingly complex. Consequently, the need for an efficient, modern data supply chain has never been more pressing. Yet, 451 Research’s latest survey shows that imbalances in the data supply chain could pose risks to data initiatives in today’s DataOps-driven world.