April 10th, 2019
There have been several articles/releases, e.g., from Red Hat, about IBM, Red Hat and Hortonworks collaborating on Hybrid Cloud, which generally means deploying apps and associated Hadoop databases as containers in multiple physical locations. Their new-found collaboration highlights the need to integrate multiple IT and data platforms, such as on-premise, Multi-Cloud, data center, SaaS and IoT devices. A contributing factor is that Big Data is not delivering the success people expected, with negative ROIs and only 15% of Big Data projects making it to production. Security, governance and compliance, lack of cloud experience, privacy, vendor lock-in, cost, lack of visibility and unplanned outages are high on the list of Public Cloud data challenges. According to the IDC’s 2018 Cloud and AI Adoption Survey, 80% of IT decision-makers have actually moved apps and data FROM the Cloud back to ON-PREMISE in the past year. Of expressed concerns and reasons, the high rank of security, governance and compliance, and privacy, all relate to GDPR, and a growing number of similar international and state regulations.
A recent Forrester report listing Big Data Fabric vendors describes them as being focused on Big Data and not the more valuable-to-business data that resides on-premise, in third-party SaaS environments and data centers. The report’s definitions of Big Data Fabric data management capabilities center around the need for an integrated and standardized view of data as the driver for a Big Data Fabric, but, ironically, the report does not mention the need for master data management (MDM) – an essential for integrated and standardized views.
The reality is that companies want the benefits of rapid provisioning, performance and scaling of the Cloud, but their operations, data security and cost concerns keep their most important data where it currently resides on-premise, in data centers and in third-party SaaS environments. WhamTech offers companies the best-of-both-worlds by bridging the gap between current enterprise operations and Cloud environments through SmartData Fabric® (SDF), which is a combination of indexed-based federated adapters, federation servers and other tools. SDF is accessed using standard applications through standard drivers, APIs and SQL, from anywhere within and outside the Cloud.
One of the best-of-both-worlds solutions is called Hybrid Cloud 2.0 that allows SDF to run in the Cloud, but access data within and outside the Cloud, including other Clouds. WhamTech can offer a number of pre-configured data source options, with near real-time Changed Data Capture (CDC) and Standard Data Views (SDVs) based on Standard Data Models and associated metadata dictionaries for specific market solutions such as healthcare, financial services and insurance. Any of these solutions can leverage some or all of the capabilities that SDF offers from data discovery to insight, including advanced data source access and data security, data governance, MDM, GDPR, virtual graph database, and interfaces to standard reporting, BI and analytics apps. SDF also allows near real-time updates, write-back to data sources, interoperability, data source monitoring and event processing, and can enable additional workflows based on data object views, REST APIs and BPM software. Cloud becomes the single access point for current and new apps, while still retaining legacy and existing operations. Over time, SDF can help companies seamlessly and gradually migrate data and apps to the Cloud, as required.
Other best-of-both-worlds solutions include Cloud-based GDPR, data access and data security, and single customer/employee/patient and other entity-centric views.
WhamTech SmartData Fabric® is not just a data fabric for Big Data, but for ALL data, plus, it adds “smarts” to raw data, making it useful for all enterprise operations and reporting, BI and analytics, virtually converting it into actionable insights.
About WhamTech
WhamTech, Inc. is a software company whose mission is to develop security-centric distributed virtual data, master data and graph data management, and analytics technology software products. WhamTech develops these products to anticipate, meet and exceed the demands of customers seeking an alternative to the conventional approaches of data warehouses, federated data access with conventional adapters and enterprise search. WhamTech’s goal is to provide an improved and more seamless way to work with data, by leaving it where it resides, and change the way fundamental and advanced data management is addressed. For more information, visit WhamTech at www.whamtech.com or follow @WhamTech_Inc on Twitter.
By:
Larry King, CPA, CGMA WhamTech CFO/COO
Gavin Robertson, Senior Vice President and WhamTech CTO
Contact
Larry King, 972-991-5700 ext. 703
larry.king@whamtech.com
Gavin Robertson, 972-991-5700 ext. 706
gavin.robertson@whamtech.com