As the amount of data grows, enterprises need a place to store it. Revenue from the data warehousing market alone is expected to cross $30 billion within the next four years, with North America capturing a 40% share.

That expanding market encompasses data stored on-premises and in the cloud, and Informatica LLC has geared its portfolio to help companies realize a better return on investment from cloud data warehouses and data lakes.

“Informatica is laser focused on the problem of data management,” said Jitesh Ghai (pictured), senior vice president and general manager of Data Space Management at Informatica. “To truly build a system of record, you need comprehensive metadata management, integration and quality capabilities. That’s what we’re offering to our customers as cloud-first, cloud native.”

Ghai spoke with John Furrier, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, as part of the Informatica CLAIREview Series. They discussed the need for metadata management to facilitate effective data governance and providing hybrid capabilities as companies divide business applications between on-premises and cloud. (* Disclosure below.)

Data integration and quality

Without proper governance and curation, data lakes can turn into data swamps. Informatica addresses this problem by offering a solution — dubbed Cloud Native Data Management — that eliminates the need for hand coding or disjointed point products.

“It comes down to foundational capabilities that we’re recognized as a leader in across the three magic quadrants of metadata management, data integration and data quality,” Ghai said. “What we found is that being data-driven requires organizations to bring data together to various applications, sources of data on-premises, in the cloud.”

Despite its cloud-first orientation, Informatica realizes that some customers may not be ready to move to the cloud right away. Some begin by decommissioning data centers and moving pieces, such as analytics databases, to the cloud first. The company has customers in the financial services industry that often adopt this approach, according to Ghai.

“The lion’s share of their estate is on-premises,” Ghai said. “Being cloud-first and cloud native necessitates that your capabilities support hybrid architectures.”

Watch the complete video interview as part of the Informatica CLAIREview Series below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s CUBE Conversations. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the Informatica CLAIREview Series. Neither Informatica, the sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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