In an episode of the Cloud & Culture podcast, Kevin Muerle—director of data transformation services for VMware Tanzu Labs—shared his insights from decades helping enterprises get a handle on their data. Muerle explains the considerations that organizations need to address in order to match their data systems with their business needs, as well as with their future goals. It’s a wide-ranging discussion that touches on AI, cloud, data gravity, GDPR, Hadoop, and much more.

Highlights from the interview are included in this blog. Read the full thing if you’re looking to re-architect your data systems to bring your applications and analytics up to speed!