This solution brief outlines seven essential capabilities enterprises should demand in a modern cloud data lakehouse. It emphasizes true separation of compute and storage, data federation across distributed sources, broad connectivity through enterprise connectors, strong security and compliance controls, reusable data products, query fault tolerance, and a rich partner ecosystem. The document highlights the risks of proprietary formats and vendor lock-in, advocating open architectures that allow analytics without moving or copying data. It concludes by positioning Starburst Galaxy as a fully managed lakehouse service that enables fast, scalable, and cost-effective analytics across distributed cloud and on-prem data environments.

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