The debate goes on. As part of the CRN 2023 Big Data 100, CRN has compiled a list of data warehouse and data lake system and service vendors that solution providers should be familiar with.

You need to build and maintain integration pipelines for each source — a massive engineering burden for data teams juggling disparate ETL tools to centralize what’s needed to power AI workloads.

Using the hub-and-spoke model of a centralized data hub, businesses can easily achieve their real-time data goals, says Hanadi Salameh, an Enterprise Digital Architect at Cognizant.