The Open Lakehouse paradigm is a transformative approach designed to minimize data movement and reduce vendor lock-in. Join Alex Merced, Senior Tech Evangelist at Dremio, as he explores the open-source standards driving this innovation. In this talk, Alex will introduce the fundamental technologies and frameworks that enable the creation of flexible, scalable, and cost-effective data platforms.

Sustainable and cost-effective long-term storage remains an unsolved problem. The most widely used enterprise storage technologies today are magnetic (hard disk drives and tape). They use media that degrades over time and has a limited lifetime, which leads to inefficient, wasteful, and costly solutions for long-lived data. This talk presents Silica: the first cloud storage system for archival data underpinned by quartz glass, an extremely resilient media that allows data to be left in place indefinitely.