By Craxel Founder and CEO David Enga

March 1, 2024

‍

Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff General Jim Slife provides an incredibly clear picture of the problems dealing with massive quantities of data in this Air and Space Forces article.

He said vast quantities of uncategorized, unindexed data were being dumped into the service’s cloud-based data lakes. “These data lakes have more unusable data than that which is actually usable,” Slife said, adding that, as a result, they’ve “become data swamps … with more uncategorized, uncatalogued information than any machine or human could use.”

So why is this happening? The schema of the data is readily knowable so it’s not that we don't know how to catalog it. The answer is the cost/latency of indexing data at these scales. This is the exact problem that Craxel has solved with our patented Black Forest technology. If anyone is curious how Black Forest can so dramatically compress timelines from when data is collected, to when value is extracted, it’s because of our high speed indexing technology. Please reach out if you have similar problems you want to solve.

‍