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What Is a Data Fabric and How Does a Data Catalog Support It?

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This is a key component of active data governance. These capabilities are also key for a robust data fabric. Another key nuance of a data fabric is that it captures social metadata. Social metadata captures the associations that people create with the data they produce and consume. The Power of Social Metadata.

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Santa Delivers a Meshy Holidata

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He was an early big data adopter and just last year made a big move to rein in all that data to deliver the holiday season. Trust flags tell me whether the data’s been naughty or nice!”. Federated computational governance is a holiday stocking anyone can wear! Santa had to reinvent everything to go remote.

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Mainframe Data: Empowering Democratized Cloud Analytics

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Big data analytics, IoT, AI, and machine learning are revolutionizing the way businesses create value and competitive advantage. Organizations have come to understand that they can use both internal and external data to drive tremendous business value. This can add stress to data management teams and data governance processes.