Big data has now become old, organizations are very well familiar with it. But some of them are still struggling with data. Data lakes provides easy access of data and data mining. Due to management defaults data may turn into data swamps making analysis difficult. Data Lake has a lot of benefits, but the data growing in size becomes difficult to handle. To avoid this problem following steps are taken at the time of creation. 1) Too much data must not be collected at the beginning. 2) Data insighting cannot be done manually, so machine-learning capabilities should be enabled. 3) Businesses should keep an eye on changing data statistics and the employed models. To make it successful one needs to integrate it with business strategy and outcome. Read more at: https://www.readitquik.com/articles/elastic-computing/smart-ways-to-manage-your-big-data/