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In this webinar we will discuss a more modern view of the data lake and consider best practices for planning and implementing a scalable enterprise data lake. The flaws in early data lakes were often rooted in the expectations of data consumers who put a premium on self-service data analytics. However, with no data governance mechanisms, data lakes quickly became more of a glorified “dumping ground,” “data swamp,” or “beta lake” for organizational data.In recent years, though, some innovations have allowed the data lake to evolve into an agile yet managed environment for accumulating shared data resources that can be optimally used for competitive advantage. Data lakes have evolved beyond the original on-premises concept based solely on Hadoop and now include pretty much any distributed computing platform (Hadoop, Spark, EMR, serverless, etc.) and any storage mechanism (HDFS, S3, ADLS), either on-premises or in the cloud.

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Businesses across industries are inundated with customer and operational data, and data teams are burdened with a growing number of data access requests from technical and non-technical data consumers. As cloud data lakes grow, the challenge for many organizations will be providing access to that data for exploratory BI and interactive analytics. In this webinar, learn how the Dremio Open Data Lakehouse provides direct access to data in Azure Data Lake Storage, and how Power BI and Dremio work together to democratize analytics for a wide range of data consumers.

Building performant ETL pipelines to address analytics requirements is hard as data volumes and variety grow at an explosive pace. With existing technologies, data engineers are challenged to deliver data pipelines to support the real-time insight business owners demand from their analytics. Databricks Delta is the next generation of evolution in big data processing from Databricks, the company founded by the original creators of Apache Spark.