Download or read book Cloud Data Lakes for Dummies, Snowflake Special Edition (Custom) written by David Baum and published by For Dummies. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a modern cloud data lake? How it compares to other analytics solutions Tips for choosing a cloud data lake Get insights fast from all your data by all your users with a cloud data lake The concept of first-generation data lakes aimed to create a single repository for storing, integrating, and analyzing all of an organization's data. As years passed, reality set in and most data lake initiatives failed. Today, organizations still want to achieve that aim: a cloud data lake that is simple yet powerful, flexible and affordable, and provides unparalleled business value. Read this book to learn how the modern cloud data lake provides all of this and more to enable data-driven decision-making across your organization. Inside... Why the cloud data lake emerged How to evaluate different data lakes How to easily enable a modern data lake with the modern data platform How to maximize scale and lower costs Why data security, governance, and sovereignty are data lake essentials How a data lake enables data sharing