A data lake is a place to store your structured and unstructured data with the tools for organizing large volumes of highly diverse data from a variety of sources. A modern data strategy helps you overcome the unexpected and invent new experiences by giving you the best of both data lakes and purpose-built data stores. It enables you to store any amount of data, at low cost, and in open, standards-based data formats. In this O’Reilly report, learn the technical aspects of building a data lake for your organization.