A repository of fixed data that remains under the control of one department and is isolated from the rest of the organization.
Data Silos are a common cause of Technical Drag and of failed AI projects. If a model can see only a fragment of the enterprise's knowledge base, its predictions will be incomplete. Data Lakehouses and unified Vector Databases are designed to bring siloed data together.
See also Technical Drag, Data Mobilization, Data Lakehouse and Vector Database.