In this edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast at Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Tomer Shiran, the CEO and founder of Dremio. Their conversation focused on how to create a data lake for an end user, a topic that anybody who’s worried about BI and analytics should be interested in. This podcast series looks at various ways of understanding technology and how to combine technology to create platforms to solve vital problems for the enterprise. There probably is no more vital problem than how to actually get your data infrastructure correct. Their conversation covered:

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How companies are trying to save the data lake

The need for open source and fast query speed

Why an open source project is not a product

EAR Podcast with Phil Quade of Fortinet

Designing Enterprise Platforms: Hosted by Dan Woods, analyst at Early Adopter Research and contributor to leading tech publications, this podcast focuses how to create product-based platforms that can have a transformational impact. The goal is to understand how to combine and integrate products rather than build from scratch. All aspects of platform building are covered from technology, to change management, to integration strategies.