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Our New Kitchen Rug (Anyone In The Mood For Scallops?)
Our new kitchen rug has arrived! Yes, it was actually something we ordered online, which is somewhat nerve-wracking since finding a rug for this spot has proven difficult so far (although we have had success with online rug orders before). But based on what we learned from our little rug fashion show, we were pretty confident that we'd figured out the winning formula. At least we were hopeful…
The "winning" rug was actually from Urban Outfitters. The color, pattern, and price were all great – so we thought we'd give it a shot. With a spring discount code they were running, it came to just $69 with shipping – which is obviously a lot cheaper than a 5 x 7′ wool rug, which most likely have been around $125+.
We also thought a flat weave would be better for our kitchen (no worrying about food being mashed into a plush wool rug). And as for why we went with that size, we tried a few different rug sizes before ordering (we have many different sized rugs on hand, and preferred it the most in that space). Anything bigger/wider interfered with the stools being pulled out, and anything shorter/smaller felt oddly tiny – like a bath mat in the middle of the room.
So without further ado – here it is!
We did put a nice thick rug pad under it (from Target for about $30) which not only helps it stay in place (it doesn't move or slide an inch, even when Clara and Burger are charging around after each other) and it also gives it some nice cushion. We took these pictures just a day after it arrived, so some of the lines from where it was folded are still there – but if it's like our other flatweaves, those will work their way out as time goes on.
We think it looks pretty darn awesome. It does exactly what we'd hoped (defines the area as a living space without having a color or pattern that's too demanding – especially since we'll be adding in more color by painting the stools). The scallop is a nice simple pattern without being too in-your-face (because no one likes an in-your-face scallop…).
See how from the other side of the kitchen it's really sort of soft and subtle? We just wanted something that didn't scream "look at me! I'm a rug! Focus all of your attention on me!" and instead just sort of slipped in for a nice layered look. I guess we'd rather gaze at the wall of penny tile or the hallway of frames or the over-sized pendants over the peninsula or the open shelves by the stove – ya know?
And in a weird way, the roundness of the rug pattern kinda echoes the gray penny tile backsplash on the other side of the room – which actually brings some pretty sweet balance to this 25′ looong room of ours:
Kinda penny tile-ish, right?
Another reason we're happy to have a rug there is to give Clara a little play space. Granted these days a lot of her playing involves running around, but we still find her sitting in this area of the house flipping through a book or dancing to the radio (sometimes while wearing a tutu and three headbands). So it's nice that the area is soft, but not so plush that we've gotta worry about crumbs and junk getting stuck in some dense rug forest.
As for Burger, he doesn't really care too much about the rug as long as he still has a pillow to curl up on.
So, long rug story short – I think we're sold. We've found our kitchen rug!
We do LOVE a showstopping rug (like the one in our living room and bedroom) but I think this more subtle tone-on-tone guys is just the ticket. And as a little bit of a epilogue to this story, we thought we'd show you one other little update that we made in the dining room – a sort of a mini "Dude Get On That" assignment, if you will. We finally hung the art that I made John for Christmas. Yup, just five months later. Haha. Here it is catching a mad reflection from the front window:
Oh and don't mind the baggy brown chair covers that are back on our dining room chairs. We put them on when we brought them outside for Clara's party (for an easy-wash surface to avoid stains) and just have been too lazy to take them off. So yeah, we haven't even washed them yet. Haha.
Anyway, here's a better view of the Chrstmas art that we finally got on the wall:
It's hung right above a little cabinet (it's actually a nightstand) that we bought from Joss & Main last year that has kinda been floating around the house in various spots for the past six months. Remember we mentioned it here and you got a peek of it here? Well, it seems to keep ending up back on this wall, so for now we're calling that his home. Can't guarantee he'll be there forever though, haha. You know us…
Since the art consists of a bunch of boy scout badges that I scanned, printed, and matted into a grid, I also made a key in a separate frame (to explain that John deserved badges like "Personal Fitness" for being a runner and "Rowing" for taking me kayaking a couple of times – more on that here). So that's what the smaller frame that you see leaning on the wall below it is all about.
Hmm, I'm not sure how this post went from scalloped rugs to kayaking, but I think you're all filled in. Next up: a big painted stool reveal. Oh yeah, baby. We're closer than you think. As in, this is your 24 hour notice. Haha. What have you guys been doing with rugs? Any online ordering? Any searches for something softer that layers into a room instead of a bold guy who becomes the focal point? We can definitely appreciate both approaches to rug hunting, in fact it's pretty fun to have a few makes-the-room rugs and a few best-supporting-actors, so I recommend a diverse cast of rugs, haha.
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I like the pattern. The color is called Tan.
oops hit Enter too soon. A boring color name for a fun rug.
LOVE the rug! where did you purchase the blue pattered pillow and blue ceramic stool/side table?
i love the rug you guys went with. I like the subtle color and pattern. We are in the process of selecting a rug from our kitchen as well. I checked Urban Outfitters and they have some great rugs. Unfortunately, I don't think they have "the one" for us.
http://www.colortransformedfamily.com/2012/06/05/color-the-floor/ ?
Love the rug! I was looking through Urban Outfitters home stuff the other day cause I desperately need a rug for my kitchen too! As a rug-purchasing newbie (and someone who likes them to be pretty soft), is it super soft feeling? I know it says it's cotton, but would this actually feel nice on, say, lame apartment tile? I'm a recent college grad, so that price tag is WAAAY more appealing than the prices rugs tend to go at.
Okay, so I scanned the whole first page of comments before commenting, because I was SURE someone else had to have mentioned this but no dice.
The rug totally reminds me of your background here on YHL. It's got those rounded shapes (like the hearts) and is sort of the same color… I saw it and I was like YES that's got them written all over it….
L-O-V-E the rug!
Urban outfitters has great rugs! I just purchased the chevron one for under my dining table and love it. The scalloped one looks great in your kitchen and I am considering the green version of that for my office once we are able to spend the money on it! Its amazing the change a rug can make to any room!
Can't wait to see what you did with the stools! :)
the grey + white striped rug was my favorite from your kitchen rug fashion show, but I must say I LOVE the one you bought fomr UO even more! perfect selection!
Did you ever consider a round (or even oval) rug for that space? It seems to me like there are a lot of rectangles going on there–the wall openings to other rooms, the hearth, the peninsula. I thought a round rug would make better sense there. I do like the pattern on the rug you ended up with, but I think a round shape would have worked better.
Love the rug guys – it's perfect! Can't wait to see the chairs tomorrow! :)
My Husband and I have been searching for the perfect rug for our bedroom under the bed…but sadly we aren't having any luck…We found an awesome one at HomeGoods, but it was a little pricey and not quite the right color…Do you know of any good websites for cheapish wool rugs, or cheapish natural fiber rugs? So frustrated! LOL
But I LOVE how your ensemble turned out, its perfect!
This rug could not be more perfect! It like it was made for this space. Thanks for showing the whole "rug fashion show" process. It makes the rest of us (or me at least!) feel better when things don't quite work. It's so often trial and error, isn't it?
LOVING the rug. It is the perfect blend of color and pattern…love love love! Nicely done. can not wait to see what color you decided to go with for the stools!?!?!?! Nail bitter over here….
~ Jillian
Love the choice you made! What a lovely rug. I think it's the perfect color balance between the wall color & the tile. A nice half-way point…
LOVE the new rug! Looks so FAB there – and on my monitor it subtly picks up the green of the walls, and just looks so great!! I really need to take the plunge on ordering a rug online — I've been eyeing up a few on overstock, but have, so far, been to chicken to hit the order button!! LOL!
SHerry — Yes, I believe that you have not had really good scallops, because they are AMAZING when cooked well!
Question for you on what you are doing on the other side (the kitchen) of the room for a rug? Are you just not going to have one over there at all? How does that feel – you have had a rug over there, so does it feel weird being "naked"?
Does UO have small rugs/runners in that pattern for under the sink and/or the stove? That might be fun.
I love the new rug! It works perfectly in that space with the other colors that you have going on.
Great rug!
Have you ever thought about dark purple for the chairs? Like a royal purple? Would complement not only your kitchen's grellow walls, but also the dark teal in your dining room bookcases. Dunno. Just a thought.
Greetings from Seattle! You just inspired me to buy this rug for my son's nursery! :) I have been looking for a "gray-ish" subtle patterned rug that was under $100 but was having no luck! After seeing your post I pulled the trigger! I'm really excited. One question – does it look more tan than gray? I noticed technically it's a tan rug, but it seems to read more gray on the website.
Perfect. Love that it's more a warm than cool grey.
Love it! We almost bought the same one, but decided on the navy houndstooth instead for a bolder look.
That rug looks great! I also bought an Urban Outfitters rug last August, on sale, and I wish I had bought a less bold pattern. A bit of buyers remorse, but it's still a nice enough rug to have for now.
One thing I noticed about mine is that it's a painted rug, which makes it very hard to clean up our dog's accidents. There is no cleaner, or even just soap and water or water alone, that I've found that will help remove the unwanted stuff and leave the rug in good condition. The color has bled and faded in two places where my cleaning attempts failed.
Anyone have any tips for cleaning a flat-weave, painted Urban Outfitters rug?
I LOVE how the rug looks in the room! I've actually been eying it for my craft studio space & used it in a mood board that I posted yesterday :) The gray tones in my room are more brownish-gray than yours, though–do you guys think that the rug would work with that shade?
Excited for the painted stool reveal!
Not that I know you guys or anything but it's so you! Very good pick! I wouldn't mind one for myself. I want to put area rugs down in our kitchen but unfortunately I have an old pug dog who pees if we leave him alone for 1 second(I know, gross, but he's family and we can't give him up).
Love the rug but now the full room pic BEGS for some color on those stools – hope you picked something bright and cheery! cant wait to see!
You nailed it :) Perfect fit! Exactly what your kitchen needed. Can't wait 'till you paint those stools.
Perfect…love it!
yup, I'd say you guys totally nailed it. Perfect choice. It immediately reminded me of the penny tile. Thanks for taking us through the decision process, too – that's extremely helpful and one of the many reasons I love your blog!
Side note, I also love the angle in one of the pics with the badge art, being able to see the color of the guest room walls and the back of the dining room built ins and how they kind of tie together. I'm totally inspired to go do something in my house right now (besides laundry!)
Love it! I've been on the hunt for the perfect rug for my living room area. I had been ogling one on rugsusa.com for a while, but then saw one I thought might work on clearance at target.com, so ordered that one. Then a couple days later the one I wanted at rugsusa.com went on 60% off sale, so I ordered that one, too! The tarjay one has arrived, still waiting on the other to make my decision!
when I saw the rug I thought of your penny tile before I scrolled down and you mentioned it too…and it ties into the scallop shell that use to have bananas in it but maybe it is in the fireplace now?
yay! glad to know you took advantage of the urban outfitters sale! :)
I just bought our first living room rug this weekend online from Home Depot. We got it for $182 after I found a coupon online. Score!
P.S. It was an 8×10 biscuit-colored contemporary style area rug. You can see it at the link below!
I was thinking the same thing about the tile before I got to that part! Your home is coming together so nicely. Dogs and there pillows!… I have a 60lb poodle who is nearly as tall as me who thinks she is a small dog. She will curl up on a tiny throw pillow.
Best rug choice ever! It goes perfectly in your home :)
-Naomi {Starry Eyes + Coffee Cups}
I can't imagine any other rug fitting into the space so well. Bravo, guys!!
It's perfect! Well done. I feel like finding the right rug is really hard! We took forever trying to find one for our living room!
You definitely nailed the right rug! Super-pulled together, nothing competing. That angle from the dining into the kitchen & hallway is a great one.
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I have been following your blog with a hot cup of tea every morning for almost a year now! My dog Levi (best buddy ever) knows the drill. Any who, I finally feel like i need to post a comment:) I LOVE the scallop rug!! The picture looking from the kitchen into the sitting room, is so well balanced. It makes my eyes say ahhhhhhhh. Amazing job guys, thanks for being so inspiring!
I have been eyeing up that rug for a couple of months now. Thanks to you guys, I know what it looks like in an actual room, so I think I will go for it! Looks amazing (and you can't beat the price!).
Love it! Scallops make the perfect subtle statement. Great choice!
The rug looks great! I've been doing a lot of online rug shopping lately and I had a feeling you might try one of the Urban Outfitters rugs. Can't beat the price!
Love the rug. It looks perfect there. Does it smell? The rug I got from Urban Outfitters smelled like a horse blanket. Stunk up the whole nursery. It was the wrong color through so I returned it. For anyone who orders online but has a store nearby don't pay with paypal or the store can't take it back and you have to mail it back.
Oh my gosh I am SO happy to see this post, because I have been debating the very same rug (in blue) for my office! I was too nervous about the quality (worrying it would be all thin and bunchy) to pull the trigger yet, but if it's working well for you guys with a rug pad, I feel reassured. :)
And yours looks great! Definitely a good choice and a nice subtle echo of the penny tile.
LOVE the rug. It's one of my most favorite purchases of yours. I also LOVE the garden stool and pouf. Will you share the source for each? Thanks in advance. Beth
Haha this is the rug I commented about last week! We have it and LOOOOVVVVEEEEEE it! Same things as you mentioned – pretty, soothing, doesn't compete, but really completes the room.
Did yours smell super musty when you opened the box? What did you do to get rid of the smell? We've had ours for a month now and we can still detect the odor when watching tv (our rug is in the living room). I think I need to air it out some more on the porch….if the rain ever stops.
You are totally slacking! What happened to naming it as you have so many other pieces of furniture/decorations.
"Penny?" (and my first thought was that it would tie into the penny tiles, so well done)
"Betty?" I think it really has to be a feminine name simply b/c of the curves.
Get going and re-introduce us to the rug! (See how boring that is!)
I love that little dresser/nightstand thing. So cute! I also really like the rug you chose. Great price too!
What's the rug made out of?
Urban Outfitters sells rugs? They are my "go to" store for birthday gag gifts. Bacon Frosting, anyone? :)
LOVE the new rug, btw! And I'm counting down the minutes to the Stool Reveal (thank goodness this is NOT a proctologists blog *whew* :)
I love it! Great choice! UO always has the best rugs! I have two in my house!
I've really enjoyed watching your decision-making process for the kitchen rug. It's refreshing to realize these perfect pieces don't just pop up on in your home on the first try every time. You couldn't have found a better rug, and at such a great price. LOVE scallops.
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Hayden Panettiere
She's transformed herself into a country star in her new television gig "Nashville," and Hayden Panettiere shows off her vocal chops in a new clip from the show.
The "Heroes" hottie sings the 1980s hit "Fame" with all of the conviction and inspiration of Music City's finest, and she looks great doing it, too.
Stepping away from the set of her hit ABC series "Nashville," Hayden Panettiere works the cover of NYLON's March 2013 issue.
While working a few ensembles from H&M and Marc Jacobs for the Cliff Watts front page shoot, the 23-year-old actress opened up to the mag about everything from her romantic relationships to surviving in the spotlight.
Giving more credence to the rumors that they're back together, Hayden Panettiere and Wladimir Klitschko grabbed lunch in Miami, Florida yesterday afternoon (February 19).
The "Nashville" hottie and her Ukrainian boxer boyfriend sure seemed to be enjoying each other's company during the meal, and even held hands on their way to the car.
She just split up with football stud Scotty McKnight, and it seems Hayden Panettiere is ready to settle down with ex-boyfriend Wladimir Klitschko.
The "Heroes" hottie has reportedly hooked back up with her Ukrainian boxer beau, as they were seen getting flirty in Miami, Florida recently.
Celebrating the final game of the NFL season in the Big Easy, Chace Crawford, Josh Hutcherson, and Hayden Panettiere attended the Lacoste/GQ Super Bowl Party at The Elms Mansion in New Orleans on Saturday (February 2).
The "Gossip Girl" hunk sported a black Lacoste jacket and blue jeans with his brown loafers and scruffy face. Meanwhile, "Nashville" beauty Hayden chose a bright white jacket, black leather pants, and neon platform heels. On the other end of the spectrum, "Hunger Games" star Josh Hutcherson was very casually dressed in a gray "California" hoodie, denim jacket, and a trucker hat.
Jetting out of town after enjoying a star-studded night at the Golden Globes, Hayden Panettiere arrived at LAX Airport in Los Angeles on Monday (January 14).
The "Nashville" star rocked a pair of brown knee-high boots, blue jeans, with a wide-brimmed hat as she smiled at the awaiting fans and photographers.
Before, during, and after the 2013 Golden Globe Awards celebrities hit up their social network accounts to share their favorite moments from the night.
Everyone from Heidi Klum to Miranda Kerr snapped away on their Instagrams while the coveted awards were handed out to the biggest names in Hollywood.
Beverly Hills was rife with movie and television stars last night (January 13) thanks to the 70th Golden Globe Awards, and afterwards InStyle and Warner Bros invited all the famous folks to party late into the evening.
Ben Affleck proudly displayed his Best Director award as he waltzed into the Oasis Courtyard at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, sporting a black tuxedo and a well-groomed beard.
Beverly Hills was brimming over with famous folks thanks to the 70th Golden Globe Awards last night (January 13) and after the trophies were handed out many stars headed over to HBO's swanky after-party.
Beautiful ladies like Julianne Moore, Olivia Munn, and Emmanuelle Chriqui posed for the paparazzi at the Circa 55 Restaurant, located inside the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Rounding out the weekend with an A-list affair, Hayden Panettiere made her way over to the 70th Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills tonight (January 13).
No stranger to the red carpet, the "Nashville" hottie worked the arrivals area like a seasoned pro, all while schmoozing with the awaiting photographers.


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A PLANNING application to convert part of the empty Torr Vale Mill in New Mills into holiday lets was given the go-ahead this week.
Members of High Peak Borough Council's Development Control Committee approved the plans to convert part of the Grade II* listed building into holiday accommodation at a meeting on Monday.
The conversion of the buildings will involve minimal internal and external alterations to the buildings, councillors heard.
English Heritage, who have placed the building on their 'At Risk' register for several years, welcomed the change of use for the site.
The permission was conditional on the satisfactory response from experts about whether bats were present at the site. A number of conditions relating to the materials used for the development are also in force.
Cllr Alan Barrow said: "It is good to see they don't want to tinker with the buildings.
"Subject to the details of the bat report I would like to move approval."
Councillors felt the development would sustain and enhance the significance of the mill, an important designated heritage asset.
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Smaller World, Bigger Data, Faster ChangeBig Data, Data virtualization
Let's meet in New York, complements of Cisco Information Server, NuoDB, Strata, and Waterline Data.
The latest McKinsey Quarterly, celebrating its 50th anniversary, suggests we need a significantly upgraded "Management intuition for the next 50 years", explaining that "the collision of technological disruption, rapid emerging-markets growth, and widespread aging is upending long-held assumptions that underpin strategy setting, decision making, and management". Regular readers of this blog will perhaps be surprised only in how long it has taken McKinsey to notice!
The biz-tech ecosystem concept I introduced in "Business unIntelligence" (how time files—the book is out almost a full year) pointed to a few other real world trends, but the result was the same: wrap them together with the current exponential rate of change in technology, and the world of business, and indeed society as a whole, can and must transform in response. W.B. Yeats was more dramatic: "All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born".
Much of the excitement around changing technology has focused on big data, particularly all things Hadoop. I've covered that in my last post and will be discussing "Drowning not Waving in the Data Lake" in more detail at Strata New York, on 16 October, as well as moderating a panel discussion "Hadoop Responsibly with Big Data Governance" with Sunil Soares, Joe DosSantos, and Jay Zaidi, sponsored by Waterline Data Science, also at Strata on 17 October.
A second important aspect is virtualization of the data resource. This becomes ever more important as data volumes grow, and copying it all into data warehouses or migrating it to Hadoop is difficult or costly. I also dealt with that topic in a recent blog and will be addressing it at Cisco's Data Virtualization Day, with Rick van der Lans in New York, next Wednesday, 1 October.
However, there is one other aspect that has received less attention: the practical challenge of the existing layered architecture, where the data warehouse is "copied" from the operational environment. There are many good reasons for this approach, but it also has its drawbacks, most especially the latency it introduces in the decision making environment and issues related to distributed and large scale implementations. In "Business unIntelligence", I discussed the emerging possibility of combining the operational and informational environments, particularly with in-memory database technology. Gartner coined a new acronym, HTAP (Hybrid Transaction/Analytical Processing), last January to cover this possibility. With its harkening back to the old OLTP and OLAP phraseology, the name doesn't inspire, but the concept is certainly coming of age.
One particularly interesting approach to this topic comes from NuoDB, whose Swifts 2.1 release went to beta a couple of weeks ago. I blogged on this almost a year ago, where I noted that "real-time decision needs also demand the ability to support both operational and informational needs on the primary data store. NuoDB's Transaction Engine architecture and use of Multi-Version Concurrency Control together enable good performance of both read/write and longer-running read-only operations seen in operational BI applications". With general availability of this functionality in November, NuoDB is placing emphasis on the idea that a fully distributed, in-memory, relational database is the platform needed to address the issues arising from a layered operational/informational environment. I'll be speaking to this in New York on 15 October at NuoDB's breakfast session, where I'll also be signing copies of my book, complements of the sponsor.
So, New York, New York… here I come!
Big Data Lake GovernanceBig Data, Data governance
Doing big data governance can save you from drowning in the Data Lake.
How do you design and build a lake? You don't. That's nature's job.
So, how do you design and build a reservoir? Simplistically, you actually design and build a dam, clear the area behind it of everything of value—people, animals and things—and wait for the water to fill the existing valley, drowning everything in its wake.
Of course, I really want to talk about Data Lakes and Data Reservoirs, what the concept might mean, and its implications for data management and governance. Data Lakes, sometimes called Data Reservoirs, are all the rage at the moment. They seem to provide ideal vacationing spots for marketing folks from big data vendors. We're treated to pictures of sailboats and waterskiing against pristine mountain backdrops. But beyond exhortations to move all our data to a Hadoop-based platform and save truckloads of money by decommissioning decades of investment in relational systems, I've so far found little in the way of thoughtful architecture or design.
The metaphor of a lake offers, of course, the opportunity to talk about water and data flowing in freely and users able to dip in with ease for whatever cup full they need. Playful images of recreational use suggest the freedom and fun that business users would have if only they didn't have to worry about where the data comes from or how it's structured. Like the crystal clear water in the lake, it is suggested that all data is the same, pure substance waiting to be consumed.
Deeper thinking, even at the level of the lake metaphor, reminds us that there's more to it. Lake water must undergo significant treatment and cleansing before it's considered fit to drink. Many lakes are filled with effluent from the rivers that feed them. Even the pleasure seekers on the lake understand that there may be dangerous shallows or hidden rocks.
The rush to discredit the data warehouse, with its structures and rules, its loading and cleansing processes, its governance and management, has led its detractors to throw out the baby with the lake water. It is important to remember that not all data is created equal. It varies along many axes: value, importance, cleanliness, reliance, security, aggregation, and more. Each characteristic demands thought before an individual data element is put to use in the business. At even the most basic level, its meaning must be defined before it's used. This simple fact is at the foundation of data warehousing, but it often seems forgotten in the rush to the lakeshore.
Big data governance has to start from that most simple act of naming. Much big data arrives nameless or cryptically named. Names, relationships, and boundaries of use must all be established before the data is put to business use. It should not be forgotten that in the world of traditional data, data modelers labored long and hard to do this work before the data was allowed into the warehouse. Now, data scientists must do it for themselves, on the fly with every data set that arrives.
New tools are beginning to emerge, of course, that emphasize data governance and simplify and automate the process. What these tools do is re-create meaning and structure in the data. They differentiate between data that is suitable for this purpose or totally inappropriate for that task. And once you start that process, your data is no longer undifferentiated lake water; it has been purified and processed, drawn from the lake and bottled for a specific use.
I'll be discussing "Drowning not Waving in the Data Lake" in more detail at Strata New York, on 16 October, as well as moderating a panel discussion "Hadoop Responsibly with Big Data Governance" with Sunil Soares, author of several books on data governance, Joe DosSantos of EMC Consulting, and Jay Zaidi, Director of Enterprise Data Management at Fannie Mae, sponsored by Waterline Data Science. Do join me at both of these sessions!
Data Virtualization vs. Data LakeData virtualization, Data warehousing
With Cisco's Data Virtualization Day, where I'm a panelist along with Rick van der Lans, coming up fast on 1 Oct in New York, it's a good moment to revisit the topic.
Data virtualization has come of age. For a few, it still remains unheard of, even if I mention some of its noms de plume, most often data federation. For others, although they are now a decreasing minority, especially in the data warehouse field it remains akin to devil worship! I'm a big supporter (of virtualization, that is!), but a new challenge is emerging – the Data Lake. To understand why, let's quickly review the history and pros and cons of data virtualization.
As the original proponent of data warehousing in 1988, I was certainly not impressed by data virtualization when it was first talked about in 1991 as Enterprise Data Access and as a product EDA/SQL from Information Builders, and as a component of IBM Information Warehouse Architecture. (I suspect there are few enough of us left in the industry who can talk about that era from firsthand experience!) Back then, and through the 1990s, I believed that virtualization was a technology with very limited potential. Data consistency and quality was still the major drivers of the BI industry, and real-time integration of data from multiple sources was still a very high-risk endeavor.
By the turn of the millennium, however, I was having a change of heart! IBM was preparing to introduce Information Integrator, a product aimed at the market then known as Enterprise Information Integration (EII). The three principle use cases – real-time data access, combining data marts and combining data and content – were gaining traction. And they continue to be the principle use cases for data virtualization from a data warehouse point of view today. My change of heart seemed obvious to me then and now: the use cases were real and growing in importance, they could not be easily satisfied in the traditional data warehouse architecture, and the data quality of the systems to be accessed was gradually improving. Still, I was probably the first data warehousing expert to accept a role for data virtualization; it was not a very popular stance back then!
Within the past five years, data virtualization has become more mainstream. There is a broader acceptance that data exists and will continue to exist on multiple platforms, and therefore there is a need to access and join them in situ.
Long may that recognition continue! For now there is another wave of platform consolidation being proposed. It's called the Data Lake, and it's probably one of the most insidious concepts yet proposed – well, that's my view. The Data Lake is a new attempt to consolidate data. In that sense, it echoes data warehouse thinking. The significant difference, however, is that there is no thought of reconciling the meanings, rationalizing the relationships or considering the timings of the data pouring in. "Just store it," is the refrain; we'll figure it out later. To my mind, this is as dangerous as allowing all unmonitored and likely polluted sources of water to flow into a real lake and then declaring it fit to drink. Not a good idea. In my view, as explained in "Business unIntelligence", a combination of data warehouse and virtualization is what's needed.
I'll return to the Data Lake in more detail soon, and I'll also be speaking about it at Strata New York, on 16 October.
Do join me at one or the other of these events!
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Big Data and the Return of the Data MartsBig Data, Data Management, Data marts, Data quality, Data warehouse
Datameer demonstrates Hadoop-based data mart.
Stefan Groschupf, CEO of @Datameer (from the German Sea of Data), has a great way with one-liners. At the #BBBT last Friday, he suggested that doing interactive SQL on Hadoop HDFS was reminiscent of a relational database using tape drives for storage. The point is that HDFS is a sequential file access approach optimized for the large read or write batch jobs typical of MapReduce. A good point that's often overlooked in the elephant hype.
Another great sound bite was that Datameer could be seen as the Business Objects of the Hadoop world. And it's that thought that leads me to the actual topic of this post: data marts.
As one of the oldest and most divisive debates since the earliest days of business intelligence, it's hardly surprising that the old time-to-value discussions of data warehouse vs. data mart should reemerge in the world of Hadoop. After all, Hadoop is increasingly being used to integrate data from a wide variety of sources for analysis. Such integration always begs the question: do it in advance to create data quality or do it as part of the analysis to reduce time to value? As seen in the image above, Datameer is clearly at the latter end of the spectrum. It's a data mart.
And in the big data world, it's certainly not the only data mart type of offering. A growing number of products built in the Hadoop ecosystem are touting typical data mart values: time to value, ease-of-use, focus on analysis and visualization, self-service, and so on. What's different about Datameer is that it has been around for nearly 5 years and has an impressive customer base.
At an architectural level, we should consider how the quality vs. timeliness, mart vs. warehouse trade-off applies in the world of big data, including the emerging Internet of Things (IoT), discussed at length in my Business unIntelligence book. Are the characteristics of this world sufficiently different from those of traditional BI that we can reevaluate the balance between these two approaches? The answer boils down to the level of consistency and integrity demanded by the business uses of the data involved. Simple analytic uses of big data such a sentiment analysis, churn prediction, etc. are seldom mission-critical, so quality and integrity are less demanding. However, more care is required when such data is combined with business-critical transactional or reference data. This latter data is well-managed (or, at least, it should be) and combining it with poorly curated big data leads inevitably to a result set of lower quality and integrity. Understanding the limitations of such data is vital.
This is particularly important in the case of the growing—and, in my view, unfortunate—popularity of the Data Lake or Data Reservoir concept. In this approach, previously cleansed and integrated business data from operational systems is copied into Hadoop, an environment notorious for poor data management and governance. The opportunities to introduce all sorts of integration or quality errors multiply enormously. In such cases, the data mart approach may amount to nothing more than a fast track to disaster.
Data… Network… Action!Cisco networks, Data virtualization, Networking
Cisco's acquisition of Composite Software begins to bear fruit.
Last Friday, the Cisco / Composite crowd turned up at the #BBBT. And I do mean crowd; seven participants from Cisco were present, including four speakers. Even a full year after its acquisition by Cisco, the Composite name still lingers for me at least, even though the Cisco branding and technical emphasis were on full view.
A major portion of this year's session focused on Cisco's vision of an architectural framework to enable the Internet of Things (IoT) or, in Cisco's own words, the Internet of Everything. This fascinating presentation by Jim Green, former Composite CEO and now CTO of the Data and Analytics Business Group at Cisco, provoked extensive discussion among the members. Unfortunately for readers of this post, the details are under NDA, but I look forward to writing about them in the future. However, as a teaser, I will say this. Given the enormous growth predicted in the number of sensor-enabled devices—some 50 billion by 2020—our current data warehouse and big data architectures, which focus on centralized storage and manipulation of data, will need to be significantly augmented with real-time, streaming processing distributed throughout the network to simply cope with the volumes of data being generated. I even learned a new marketing buzzword—fog computing… to bring the cloud down to earth!
For BBBT old-timers, like me, our primary interest remains data virtualization, particularly as it relates to BI, and how the acquisition helped or hindered the development of that core function. One fear I had is that this small element of a bigger picture could get lost in the big corporation messaging of Cisco. That fear remains. For example, it took me quite some time to find the "Composite portion" of the Cisco website… it's here, if you want to bookmark it. This is an aspect of the merged positioning that needs more attention.
But what about data virtualization? Virtualization function is a mandatory component of any modern approach to business intelligence and decision making support. It is a key component (under the name reification) of the process space of my Business unIntelligence REAL architecture. BI folks always focus on the data, of course. But, there's much more to it.
Here's what I wrote last year soon after the acquisition and last BBBT Cisco / Composite appearance: "One of the biggest challenges for virtualization is to understand and optimize the interaction between databases and the underlying network. When data from two or more distributed databases must be joined in a real-time query, the query optimizer needs to know, among other things, where the data resides, the volumes in each location, the available processing power of each database, and the network considerations for moving the data between locations. Data virtualization tools typically focus on the first three database concerns, probably as a result of their histories. However, the last concern, the network, increasingly holds the key to excellent optimization… And who better to know about the network and even tweak its performance profile to favor a large virtualization transfer than a big networking vendor like Cisco? The fit seems just right." (See the full blog here.)
Clearly, this work is progressing with combined hardware/software offerings based on the Cisco (was Composite) Information Server and Cisco's server and router offerings, although little was provided by way of technical detail or performance claims. Within the data virtualization space itself, the emphasis is on two key aspects: (1) to simplify the use and adoption of data virtualization and (2) to expand data virtualization sources particularly for big data and the Internet of Things. While these two aspects can be taken separately, I believe that it is in their combination that most benefit can be found. It has long been clear to me that big data and IoT data do not belong in the traditional data warehouse. Nor does it make sense to move business transaction data from well-managed relational environments to Hadoop—the Data Lake approach. (In my view, copying legally binding transaction and contractual data into a loosely defined and poorly controlled Data Lake risks corrupting and losing control over vital business assets.)
Virtualization across these two environments, and others, is the most sensible—and perhaps only possible—way to enable business users to combine such very different types of data. Furthermore, providing users with the ability to understand and use such combined data through abstraction and directory services is vital. So, the direction articulated by the Cisco Data and Analytics Business Group brings together two of the vital components to address the growing need for business users to understand, find and combine information from traditional and (so-called) big data sources. A grand challenge, indeed…
I look forward to Cisco's Data Virtualization Day in New York on 1 October, from where I expect to report further developments on this interesting roadmap.
Big data managementData Management
Data management is back on the agenda, finally with a big data flavor.
I'd like to think that Teradata was driven by my blog of 10 July, "So, how do you eat a Hadoop Elephant?" in the acquisitions announced today of Hadapt and, of more interest here, Revelytix. Of course, I do know that the timing is coincidental. However, the move does emphasize my contention that it will be the traditional data warehouse companies that will ultimately drive real data management into the big data environment. And hopefully kill the data lake moniker in the process!
To recap, my point two weeks ago was: "The challenge was then[in the early days of data warehousing]—and remains now—how to unlock the value embedded in information that was not designed, built or integrated for that purpose. In fact, today's problem is even bigger. The data in question in business intelligence was at least owned and designed by someone in the business; big data comes from external sources of often unknown provenance, limited explicit definitions and rapidly changing structures. [This demands] defining processes and methodologies for governance, and automating and operationalizing the myriad steps as far as possible. It is precisely this long and seemingly tedious process that is largely missing today from the Hadoop world."
Revelytix is (or was) a Boston-based startup focusing on the problems of data scientists in preparing data for analytic use in Hadoop. The Revelytix process begins with structuring the incoming soft (or loosely structured) data into a largely tabular format. This is unsurprising to anyone who understands how business analysts have always worked. These tables are then explored iteratively using a variety of statistical and other techniques before being transformed and cleansed into the final structures and value sets needed for the required analytic task. The process and the tasks will be very familiar to anybody involved in ETL or data cleansing in data warehousing. The output—along with more structured data—is, of course, metadata, consisting of table and column names, data types and ranges, etc., as well as the lineage of the transformations applied. In short, the Revelytix tools produce basic technical-level metadata in the Hadoop environment, the initial component of any data management or governance approach.
In my book, "Business unIntelligence", I proposed for a variety of reasons that we should start thinking about context-setting information (or CSI, for short), rather than metadata. A key driver was to remind ourselves that this is actually information that extends far beyond the limited technical metadata we usually consider coming from ETL. And if I might be so bold as to advise Teradata on what to focus on with their new baby, I would suggest that they place emphasis on the business-related portion of the CSI being created in the world of the data scientists. It is there that the business meaning for external data emerges. And it is there that it must be captured and managed for proper data governance.
Big data: necessary but insufficient for analyticsAnalytics, Hadoop
As the big data market matures, the focus shifts from the new data itself to its use in concert with traditional operational business data.
For the business analyst, big data can be very seductive. It exists in enormous quantities. It contains an extensive and expanding record of every interaction that makes up people's various daily behaviors. According to all the experts, the previously unnoticed correlations it contains hold the potential for discovering customer preferences, understanding their next actions, and even creating brand new business models. Trailblazing businesses in every industry, especially Internet startups, are already doing this, largely based in Hadoop. The future beckons…
However, a key data source—traditional business transactions and other operational and informational data—has been largely isolated from this big data scene. And although the Hadoop store is the default destination for all big data, this older but most important data of the actual business—the customer and product records, the transactions, and so on—usually reside elsewhere entirely, in the relational databases of the business' operational and informational systems. This data is key to many of the most useful analyses the business user may desire. The graphic above depicts how a modern customer journey accesses and creates data in a wide variety of places and formats, suggesting the range of sources required for comprehensive analytics and the importance of the final purchasing stage.
There are a number of approaches to bringing these disparate data sources together. For some businesses, copying a subset of big data to traditional platforms is a preferred tactic. Others, particularly large enterprises, prefer a data virtualization approach as described in the IDEAL architecture of Business unIntelligence. For businesses based mostly or largely in the cloud, bringing operational data into the Hadoop environment often makes sense, given that the majority of their data resides here or in other cloud platforms. The challenge that arises, however, is how to make analytics of this combined data most usable. Technical complexity and a lack of contextual information in Hadoop can be serious barriers to adoption of big data analytics on this platform by ordinary business analysts.
To overcome these issues, four areas of improvement in today's big data analytics are needed:
1. Combine data from traditional and new sources
2. Create context for data while maintaining agile structure
3. Support iterative, speed-of-thought analytics
4. Enable business-user-friendly analytical interface
Big data is commonly loaded directly into Hadoop in any of a range of common formats, such as CSV, JSON, web logs and more. Operational and informational data, however, must first be extracted from its normal relational database environments before loading it in a flat-file format. Careful analysis and modeling is needed to ensure that such extracts faithfully represent the actual state of the business. Such skills are often to be found in the ETL (extract-transform-load) teams responsible for traditional business intelligence systems, and should be applied here too.
To process such data, users need to be able to define the meaning of the data before exploring and playing with it, in order to address improvement #2 above. Given analysts' familiarity with tabular data formats, such as spreadsheets and relational tables, a simple modeling and enhancement tool that overlays such a structure on the data is a useful approach. This separates the user from the technical underlying programming methods.
At the level of the physical data access and processing required to return results to the users, one approach is to translate the users' queries into MapReduce batch programs to run directly against the Hadoop file store. Another approach adds a columnar, compressed, in-memory appliance. This provides iterative, speed-of-thought analytics, in line with improvement #3, by offering an analytic data mart sourced from Hadoop. In this environment, the analyst interacts iteratively with visual dashboards. This is analogous to BI tools, operating on top of a relational database. This top layer provides for the fourth required improvement: a business-user-friendly analytical interface.
The four improvement areas listed here are at the heart of Platfora's approach to delivering big data analytics. For a more detailed explanation, as well as descriptions of a number of customer implementations, please see my white paper, "Demystifying big data analytics" or the accompanying webinar on this topic.
So, how do you eat a Hadoop Elephant?Hadoop
With MapR's recent announcement of $110 million in funding, following on from Hortonwork's $100 million and Cloudera's $900 million, both in March, debate is rife about their different approaches to the market and, of course, which of this big three will eventually win out. Throw in some fear, uncertainty and doubt about the future of the current big data warehouse vendors, a plethora of other players with varying offerings, and you have the food for a real media feeding frenzy.
No doubt the market is undergoing some significant changes and there will be winners and losers. Of course, vendor funding and marketing momentum do make a difference. Certainly, the flood of data from previously untapped or even nonexistent sources expands what businesses can hope to achieve.
But, amid all the excitement, one reality remains constant. One not-so-sexy topic—or actually a related set of topics—will drive the success or failure of real-world implementations. The same topic has been at the heart of data warehousing for nearly thirty years. And whether we call it data warehouse, data lake or data hub, or whether we build it on a relational database or an elephant's back, is largely irrelevant. This oft-overlooked topic is information (or data) management… using the term in its broadest sense.
Since the earliest days of data warehousing, a significant tension has existed between the urge to deliver early business value and the need to ensure the integrity of the underlying data. Believe it or not, business users were as excited in the 1980s about the opportunities offered by relational databases as today's users are about big data technologies. The underlying message is not that much different: drive better decision making based on more and better data. The challenge was then—and remains now—how to unlock the value embedded in information that was not designed, built or integrated for that purpose. In fact, today's problem is even bigger. The data in question in business intelligence was at least owned and designed by someone in the business; big data comes from external sources of often unknown provenance, limited explicit definitions and rapidly changing structures.
For old-timers like me, the open source, big data environment is very reminiscent of the early days of relational databases in the 1980s and data warehousing in the 1990s. The focus is on improving the technological underpinnings, component by individual component. A better database optimizer. Faster throughput load and update (ETL). Security and authentication tools. Moving from batch to interactive and eventually near real-time use.
In data warehousing, the focus has long shifted to the overall process of ensuring data quality and consistency, from modeling business requirements all the way through to production delivery and ongoing maintenance. We see this in tools such as Wherescape and Kalido, which have emerged from teams who had to build and support real, ongoing and changing business needs. Once the excitement of delivering the first data warehouse, lake or hub wears off, the real challenge become apparent—how to keep it going in the face of ever changing and increasingly urgent business demands.
So, how do you eat the Hadoop elephant? In exactly the same way as we've eaten relational databases, data warehouses and business intelligence: by lining up the pieces, defining processes and methodologies for governance, and automating and operationalizing the myriad steps as far as possible. It is precisely this long and seemingly tedious process that is largely missing today from the Hadoop world. Its absence is unsurprising; this is a market still in the first flush of delivering discreet helpings of business value.
But, in the long run (and it will be long), this is where the worlds of data warehousing and big data will converge. The knowledge and tooling of information management from data warehousing will be applied to big data. The roles of both relational databases and non-relational techniques will become clearly complementary. A hybrid architecture as outlined in my book, Business unIntelligence, will become the preferred approach. And maybe we'll discover that the elephant we need to eat is that of information meaning and management rather than the basic data manipulation we see in Hadoop today.
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Outrage about Facebook's psychological experiment is misplaced.
The past weekend saw another outpouring of outrage about Facebook's abuse of personal data. An article in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America reported the results of a psychological experiment into the emotional impact of seeing emotionally charged content in social media. In brief, during one week in January 2012, Facebook deliberately manipulated the levels of positive or negative posts in the News Feeds of almost 700,000 users and measured the resulting emotional behavior of the same users by the level of positivity or negativity in their subsequent posts. Commentators take issue that the people involved were neither informed of the experiment nor gave their consent. Facebook obviously disagrees.
Sorry folks, Facebook is correct. Not only did the users consent, but they (and all other users of social media) willingly participate daily in the same type of experiment. The results of these experiments are never published in respectable journals. They are silently used to target advertising and drive marketing. Facebook has been deciding which posts users see for many years, based on relevance, as determined by a proprietary algorithm. Advertisements are delivered in a similar fashion, also based on assumed relevance. The central questions are: Relevant to whom? Relevant on what basis? And how might advertisement relevance be related to the News Feed posts shown at the same time?
What this experiment has emphasized—I presume inadvertently—is that the algorithm(s) used to choose the posts and advertisements you see can be "tuned" in any manner the programmer desires and you will not be any the wiser. If your News Feed can drive your negativity through filtering of posts, is that an opportunity to advertise anti-depressants? If your friends are equally positive about products X and Y, but the social media provider can earn more from ads for X, might that lead to the favoring of posts liking X?
So, we return again to the issue I raised only two weeks ago. Internet services such as social media or search funded by advertising allow and invite manipulation of the data gathered for increased profit. If we agree that such services are socially desirable or now necessary, can we afford to expose them to even the possibility of such manipulation?
My bottom line is that the free internet is an oxymoron. Your individual freedom will be severely constrained by your desire for free stuff.
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Although the yellow elephant continues to trample all over the world of Information Management, it is becoming increasingly difficult to say where more traditional technologies end and Hadoop begins.
Actian's (@ActianCorp) excellent presentation by John @santaferraro and @emmakmcgrattan at the #BBBT on 24 June emphasized again—if such emphasis were needed—that the boundaries of the Hadoop world are becoming very ill-defined indeed, as more traditional engines are adapted to run on or in the Hadoop cluster. The Actian Analytics Platform – Hadoop SQL Edition embeds their existing X100 / Vectorwise SQL engine directly in the nodes of the Hadoop environment. The approach offers the full range of SQL support previously available in Vectorwise on Hadoop, and claims 4-30 times speed improvement over Cloudera Impala in a subset of TPC-DC benchmarks.
Architecturally as interesting, shown in the accompanying figure, is the creation and use of column-based, binary, compressed vector files by the X100 engine for improved performance and the subsequent replication of these files by the Hadoop system. These latter files support co-location of data for joins for a further performance boost.
This is, of course, the type of integration one would expect from seasoned database developers when they migrate to a new platform. Actian is not alone in doing this. Pivotal's HAWQ has Greenplum technology embedded. It would be surprising if IBM's on-Hadoop Big SQL offering is not based on DB2 knowledge at the very least. These are the types of development that YARN facilitates in version two of Hadoop. Debate will rage about how deeply integrated the technologies are and how far they take advantage of the Hadoop infrastructure. But that's just details.
The real point is that the mix and match of functionality and data seen here emphasizes the conundrum I posed at the top of the blog. Where does Hadoop end? And where does "NoHadoop" (well, if we can have NoSQL…) begin? What does this all mean for the evolution of Information Management technology over the coming few years?
As the title suggests, I believe that we are on the crest of the third wave of Hadoop. As in Alvin Toffler's prescient 1980 book of the same name, this third wave of Hadoop could also be claimed to be post-industrial in nature. Let's look at the three waves in context.
The first wave of Hadoop was the fertile soil of the Internet in which the cute yellow elephant would grow. The technical pioneers of the Web, particularly Google, defined and built bespoke versions of the new data management (in a loose sense of the term) ecosystem that was needed for the novel types and enormous volumes of data they were handling. Their choice of parallelized commodity hardware and software was the foundation for and driving force of the second wave.
The second wave industrialized the approach through the open source software movement. Here we saw the proliferation of Apache projects and the emergence of commercial, independent distros from the likes of Cloudera and Hortonworks. The ecosystem gradually moved from custom code built by expert developers to a parallel programming environment with a plethora of utilities to aid development, deployment and use. This wave is now receding as it has become clear that an integrated, managed and database-centric environment is now needed. Such a development is fully expected: we had exactly the same cycle in mainframes in the '60s and '70s and in distributed computing in the '80s and '90s. However, there is an important difference to consider now as the third wave of Hadoop breaks: we are no longer on a virgin shore.
The third wave of Hadoop is seeing the devaluing of the file system in favor of databases that run on top of it. Individual programs are being displaced by systems to manage resource allocation, ensure transaction integrity and provide security. While the companies and individuals who drove the second wave do recognize this shift and are developing systems such as Impala, Falcon, Sentry and more, they start from a disadvantage. The database and other system management technologies that were developed in the mainframe and distributed environments are far more robust and can be migrated to the new commodity hardware and software platform. Commercially, the vendors of these tools have no choice but to move into this market. And they are doing so. YARN has begun to unlock Hadoop from its programming origins.
I suggest that the unique strength of the Hadoop world comes not from its open source software base but from its hardware foundation of parallel commodity machines. Such hardware drives down the capital cost of playing in the big data arena. On the other hand, it increases the operational cost and management complexity. These latter aspects will militate against the open source, let-a-thousand-flowers-bloom approach that is currently being pursued; we need a data management infrastructure, including a fully functional relational database, in this environment far more than yet another NoSQL (or YANS, for short?). Realistically, such mission-critical software is more likely to come from traditional vendors, adapted from existing products, patents and skills. In this, Actian and others are showing the way.
In this third wave, of course, a new model for funding must emerge. Traditional, and often exorbitant, software pricing models cannot survive. On the other hand, the open source free-software-paid-maintenance model, while offering much innovation, is unlikely to be able to fund the dedicated, on-going development required for robust, reliable and secure infrastructure. Are any of the big players in the merging Hadoop market of this third, post-industrial wave willing to step up to this challenge?
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