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By Miles Kehoe
A recent trend gives cause for concern: Companies are using their big data repositories — Hadoop, Storm, “DBs,” “Bases,” etc. — as archival storage, turning them into little more than glorified network shared drives. The industry even has a term for it: data lakes.
We’ve already maintained here that data lakes are the new “Roach Motel” — your data checks in, but never checks out. The problem? Metadata and content errors become permanent in the data lakes and as a result, files are forgotten.
Read the complete article at: Have You Looked at Your (Big) Data Lately?