What best describes your distributed data management for the next five years?

No short-term tactical or a long-term strategy17%

Focus on Lakehouse or Logical Data Warehouse45%

Build data products in a data Mesh approach20%

Introduce data observability and automate some in a Data Fabric13%

We don’t have distributed data5%

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Director of Data2 years ago

We are building Data Fabric platform

Head of Corporate Development2 years ago

Great

CTO2 years ago

Data Mesh is a Business Architecture while Data Fabric is a Tech Architecture that brings your cohesive data ecosystem together. I think to drive a strong Data Mesh strategy, it’s important to have a Data Fabric platform.

Director of IT2 years ago

Focus on datalake

Engineering Manager2 years ago

We are moving to data mesh.

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