Where does this data live in an enterprise?

The data in an enterprise lives in different formats in the form of raw data, binaries (images and videos), and so on, and in different application's persistent storage internally within an organization or externally in a private or public cloud. Let's first classify these different types of data. One way to categorize where the data lives is as follows:

• Intranet (within enterprise)
• Internet (external to enterprise)

Another way in which data living in an enterprise can be categorized is in the form of different formats in which they exist, as follows:

• Data stores or persistent stores (RDBMS or NoSQL)
• Traditional data warehouses (making use of RDBMS, NoSQL etc.)
• File stores

Now let's get into a bit more detail about these different data categories.