Click to learn more about author Aaron Fuller. There’s an old techie saying I first heard from the programmers I worked with when I got into corporate IT work. “This would be a great job if it wasn’t for the users!” Of course, it’s just a variation on an old joke that could be applied […]
Okera Delivers Industry’s First Real-Time Actionable Insights into Data Lakes
According to a new press release, “Okera, a leading active data management platform that enables companies to discover, audit, and protect data at scale, today announced Okera Spotlight for Amazon Web Services (AWS) users, the first and only solution to provide full visibility with real-time and continuous audit of your Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) […]
The Challenges of Leveraging Big Data
Organizations from all over the world are gathering, analyzing, and evaluating huge data volumes from a large variety of sources, with the goal of increasing productivity and efficiency. Big Data Analytics is being used to stop credit card fraud, anticipate hardware failures, and reroute internet traffic to avoid congestion. Big Data technologies can improve network […]
Top Six GDPR Compliance Stumbling Blocks with Possible Solutions
Click to learn more about author Adriene Raynott. Introduction GDPR or the General Data Protection Regulation is a data security law concerned with the citizens of the European Economic Area and the European Union. Any company that uses personal and commercial data of these citizens must comply with the rules of GDPR. Summarizing the GDPR […]
Komprise Enables Search and Virtual Data Lakes across NetApp ONTAP
According to a recent press release, “Komprise, the industry-leader in intelligent data management, expanded its support of NetApp platforms with two new capabilities. Komprise Deep Analytics now supports NetApp CloudVolumes ONTAP® as a source, extending existing support of on-premise NetApp environments, and Komprise Data Migration now includes a Beta release of Amazon S3-based data migration […]
Ride the Data Governance 2.0 Wave
Companies were engaged in Data Governance practices such as Data Lineage and Data Quality for years before the concept of Data Governance emerged as a mainstream enterprise-level activity in 2005, said Kelle O’Neal, the founder and CEO of First San Francisco Partners, during her DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data Governance Online event presentation titled Data Governance 2.0. […]
A Lesson from Old MacDonald on How to Govern Access to Data
Click to learn more about author Mark McClain. Do you remember the children’s song “Old MacDonald Had a Farm”? Not to be too kitschy, but this song is relevant when we think about governing access to data. Let’s insert the word ‘data’ in the lyrics so you can understand what I mean: “Old MacDonald had […]
In IT and Data, You Need to Skill Up to Keep Up
Click here to learn more about Sascha Giese. Skilling up becomes more important (and necessary) every day. Tech environments are more complex now than ever before, and they’re only going to become more complex as new technologies emerge and legacy tech remains. Tech pros know they have to develop skills both inside and outside their […]
Ransomware, Aliens, and Anime: Seriously?
Click to learn more about author David Paquette. In September, a meme that a college student meant as a joke about how to procure government secrets about aliens and UFOs caused serious security concerns for the U.S. Air Force. A Facebook post from 21-year-old Matty Roberts, which said – “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop […]
Addressing Edge Computing Needs with Advanced Data Storage
The number of companies using edge computing is rapidly growing as real-time insights are becoming more important to business success. Edge computing “uses a network of microdata servers to process and store Big Data locally, taking the concept of a distributed architecture to the next level.” It is meant to help decrease latency problems, allow […]