Modern Lakehouses are built on the promise of providing advanced data management and easy access to diverse data sources – structured, semi-structured and unstructured data across hybrid clouds. Modern lakehouses should have the advantage of traditional data warehouses with predicable performance and the advantage of the data lake with infinite scalability. To realize this vision, storage optimization is critical to modern lakehouse solutions. Storage optimization includes cost effective hybrid cloud scale object storage, high performance storage acceleration and integrated data governance. IBM Fusion technology improve query performance by as much as 7X with significant cost advantage and superior data management capabilities.

In this session we explore the salient capabilities of IBM Fusion and watsonx.data with a focus on the use of open data formats.