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Richard Winter

Richard Winter, principal architect at Think Big, a Teradata company, is a specialist in big data and data management technology and implementation with over twenty-five years of experience. He guides enterprises in the creation of data lakes, and is an expert in quantifying requirements, developing data management architectures, measuring the performance of solutions (e.g., benchmarking and proof-of-concept), product evaluation and selection, physical design, and related activities.

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The Data Lake: A Reservoir or a Swamp? It Depends on Your Approach

Richard Winter · June 14, 2016

Data lakes are based on a simple idea: You can store and analyze massive amounts of raw data at scale. But why data lakes? Here are five reasons why IT leaders are excited about this idea: Unfortunately, lots of companies end up with a data swamp instead of a data