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by Angela Guess A new article makes the argument that master data management initiatives need involvement from the top as well as IT departments in order to succeed. The article states, “A lot of MDM initiatives get started by IT departments. Sometimes they are following the external trends and realize that competitors have already...
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by John Biderman When President Theodore Roosevelt commissioned construction of the Panama Canal (bear with me; this will be made relevant to data topics shortly) it was overseen by a committee in Washington who hired a seasoned engineer, John Findley Wallace, and dispatched him to the isthmus with the directive to “make the dirt...
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by Angela Guess David Loshin recently posted his thoughts on how companies might be able to standardize data rules. This is his theory: “By categorizing different types of common rules, one could formulate a structure for each type of rule that would be abstract yet adaptable to different operational scenarios.” He continues, “Consider this...
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by Angela Guess A recent article underscores how important careful planning is before implementing a new data governance program. The article states, “When some people think about data governance they immediately jump to the conclusion that a technological solution is a holy grail for defining an answer to this substantial task, writes Finn Rye,...
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by Angela Guess Clemens Pfeiffer offers a three layer approach to data center management. He writes, “Data center managers must find ways to tie together diverse data (such as power, temperature, humidity, utilization, application service levels, and many more) from different sources into an overarching monitoring and analytics environment that lets them make better...
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by Angela Guess A recent interview with Gnip CEO Jud Valeski discusses the challenges Gnip faces as the official commercial provider of the Twitter activity stream, a stream that produces about 155 million tweets a day. When asked about the architectural challenges of running all of that real-time data through the internet, Valeski responded,...
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by Angela Guess A recent article offers practical advice for structuring a successful data governance program. The article begins, “A three level model like this can work well at a lot of companies: (1) Data Governance Steering Committee: a cross-functional, executive level group that makes policy decisions, provides funding, resolves escalated issues, and provides...
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by Angela Guess A new article reports “Overlaying the power grid with a communications and control network will provide utilities with terrific new business capabilities. The Smart Grid figures to enable utilities to more effectively offset service theft, to monitor for and blunt the impact of outages, to better foresee and accommodate spikes in...
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by Angela Guess A recent article reports, “MeriTalk, a government analysis organization, on behalf of NetApp, a provider of storage and data management solutions, surveyed 157 federal IT decision-makers in April and May to determine how well agencies were using metrics to measure data center consolidation savings and increasing efficiencies as they consolidate. The...
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by Angela Guess Mark Brunelli recently reported, “Organizations need to focus on being more proactive when designing or updating data quality management strategies, according to IT industry consultants and technology professionals. Experts say organizations spend lots of valuable time cleaning up data quality problems in the data warehouse and business intelligence (BI) environment, when...
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