IBM watsonx.data Technical Essentials

This course introduces you to watsonx.data, IBM’s open data lakehouse platform. Watsonx.data is a fit-for-purpose data store built on an open lakehouse architecture and optimized for governed data and AI workloads across hybrid-cloud environments. It brings together commodity cloud object storage, open data and table formats, and open-source query engines to provide broad workload coverage and optimal price-performance.

Syllabus

Discuss data’s place in the new world of generative AI
Describe the limitations of data warehouses and data lakes and the benefits of an open data lakehouse architecture
Characterize the benefits, value, and use cases for watsonx.data
Explain the common components of lakehouses and of watsonx.data
State the primary features and capabilities available in the watsonx.data user interface
Summarize watsonx.data’s integration within an existing data ecosystem