Building & Managing a Data Platform for a Delta Lake Exceeding 13PB & 1000s of Users: AT&T's Story
Description
Data runs AT&T’s business, just like it runs most businesses these days. Data can lead to a greater understanding of a business and when translated correctly into information can provide human and business systems valuable insights to make better decisions. Unique to AT&T is the volume of data we support, how much of our work that is driven by AI and the scale at which data and AI drive value for our customers and stakeholders. Our cloud migration journey includes making data and AI more accessible to employees throughout AT&T so they can use their deep business expertise to leverage data more easily and rapidly. We always had to balance this data democratization and desire for speed with keeping our data private and secure. We loved the open ecosystem model of Lakehouse that enables data, BI and ML tools to be seamlessly integrated on a single pane arena; it simplifies the architecture and reduces dependencies between technologies in the cloud. Being clear in our architecture guidelines and patterns was very important to us for our success. We are seeing more interest from our business unit partners and continuing to build the AI capability AI as a service to support more citize…
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