Microsoft Adds Data Models, and Why You Must Care

A few days ago Microsoft announced its acquisition of ADRM Software, "a leading provider of large-scale industry data models, which are used by large companies worldwide as information blueprints." Image:Microsoft Having led a team of enterprise data architects at a Fortune 10 corporation, I can say, in my opinion, few things are more important to get right than core data models. The entities in...

You Know Nothing, Jon Snow(cone): The New Hybrid

Another addition to what we're calling the New Hybrid has arrived from AWS. Before we go on, you want to know: What's the "New Hybrid?" Well! I'm glad you asked. You remember in the old, old days of the cloud (like, about four or five years ago) "hybrid" meant something like your existing on-premises applications connected in some way to cloud applications. Perhaps your transactional app sent...

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