Data Fabric, Data Mesh, or Data Muddle – What's Up with Data Architecture?
Data Fabric, Data Mesh, or Data Muddle – What's Up with Data Architecture?
One of dozens of sessions taking place in person at Enterprise Data World 2022. Register Today!
Monday, March 21, 2022
08:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Intermediate
You’ve heard the buzzwords: data fabric, data mesh, hybrid integration platform, and more. Are they hype or reality? Architecture or marketecture? Are these truly different architectural approaches or just different names for similar concepts? Let’s sort it out and make some sense of the data architecture muddle.
The complexities of modern data management grow as new technologies, new users and uses of data, and new platforms are introduced. As data becomes increasingly distributed across in-house and cloud deployments the work of moving, processing, storing, protecting, and accessing data becomes fragmented. Adapting data management methods with each technological shift is difficult and disruptive. As technology innovation accelerates and data sprawl expands it quickly becomes unsustainable.
The right data management architecture is the key to sustainability. But the choices can be confusing. This session explores data fabric, data mesh, hybrid integration platform (HIP), and more to sort the hype from reality, understand similarities and differences, and provide some guidelines for architectural decision-making.
Join us to learn:
- What is data fabric and what are the variations?
- What is data mesh and how does it work?
- What is a hybrid integration platform (HIP)?
- How are the various approaches similar and how are they different?
- Is it practical to blend multiple approaches in a single architecture?
- Where do data lakes and data hubs fit into all of this?