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Refers to specific software used to create a data connection and is used as a synonym for middleware.
Cloud Data Management
A method to manage data across cloud platforms, either with or instead of on-premises storage. The goal is to curb rising cloud storage costs. It is emerging as an alternative to data management since instead of buying on-premises storage resources and managing them, resources are bought on-demand in the cloud.
Cloud Migration
Movement of data, processes, and applications from on-premises storage or legacy infrastructure to cloud-based infrastructure for storage, application processing, data archiving, and ongoing data lifecycle management.
Data Blending
A data management technique that provides a fast, easy, and flexible method to extract value from multiple data sources and to find patterns without the deployment of a traditional data warehouse architecture.
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The combination of business and technical processes that are used to merge data from multiple disparate sources into standard architectures for the purpose of gaining meaningful insights.
Data Lake
Refers to unstructured data that is sitting on different storage environments and clouds. The data lake supports data of all types (ie. text, video, blog, etc).
Data Mapping
Data mapping is a linking process that creates data element mappings between two different data models for the purposes of integration. It is generally used as an initial step for a wide array of data integration tasks, including data transformation between a data source and a destination.
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The ETL process refers to the three main tasks performed in a data integration/migration process. Each of the tiers (Extract, Transform or Load) can include multiple levels.
Hybrid Cloud
An application environment model that combines an on-premises data center (also called a private cloud) with a public cloud, allowing data and applications to be shared between them.
Master Data Management
An industry-standard term that incorporates processes, policies, standards, tools, and governance to define and manage all of an enterprise’s most critical information in order to articulate a single point of reference.
Metadata
Metadata means “data about data” or data that describes other data, it makes finding and working with data easier by allowing the user to sort or locate specific documents.
Namespace
An XML namespace is a collection of names that can be used as either elements or attribute names in another XML document. The role of the namespace is to qualify element names uniquely on the Web to avoid conflicts between elements with the same name.
REST
REST (Representational State Transfer) is a software architectural style for distributed hypermedia systems, used in the development of Web services. Distributed applications send and receive data via REST.
S3
The S3 protocol is used in a URL that specifies the location of an Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) bucket and a prefix to use for reading or writing files in the bucket.
Scalability
The ability to increase and upscale key system services; inbound and outbound volumes of data, accessibility of processes and services, and the number of users accessing data critical to the enterprise.
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A software client delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted and typically accessed by end-users using a client (ie. web browser, mobile device, etc).
Unstructured Data
Unstructured data refers to data that doesn’t fit nicely into the traditional database architecture and has no identifiable internal order or structure. It is considered to be the opposite of structured data, which is data stored in a database.