by Cathy Nolan Remember Bill Murray in Groundhog’s Day when he gets as many “do-overs” as he needs to find love? Unfortunately the rest of us don’t have that option and with the other big February holiday coming up—you know, the one where you exchange mushy cards and candy—we all need to be a little…
by Ian Rowlands Once again I’ve been honored with the opportunity to speak at this year’s Enterprise Data World (EDW) Conference in Washington in April. It is an honor. There are always more people interested in speaking than there are slots. When I looked at the agenda, I wondered what topics people were interested in.…
by James Kobielus What keeps security professionals up all night? It’s worrying about the things that might be slipping through the cracks. In an online world of extraordinary complexity, it’s safe to assume that something somewhere is always slipping through the cracks. As I stated in a slightly different context here, the security devil’s in…
by Gil Allouche Back when big data first came on the scene it was surrounded by a lot of hype about what it was going to allow companies to do. Over the years, as more and more companies have turned to big data platforms to meet their analytics needs, a significant amount of hype has…
by Evaldo Horn De Oliveira “If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.” You’ve no doubt heard that adage. It dates back half a century to behavioral psychologists describing the tendency to use the tools they are familiar with regardless of their fitness for the task at hand. It is…
by Michael Blaha The UML is a popular notation for modeling software artifacts. Even though the UML was mostly developed for programming, it is also relevant for databases. This article takes a critical look at using the UML for databases. What is the UML? The UML (an acronym for Unified Modeling Language) is a general-purpose…
Did Steve Jobs Pick Low Hanging Fruit?by Janine Joseph Recently I had a conversation about how we need to “pick the low hanging fruit” for work in Data Management. By picking the low hanging fruit we can start to show quick wins that help support our efforts. While I don’t necessarily disagree with this idea,…
by John Ladley On my last blog, I received a comment that I should not call people “stupid.” To be clear, I am not calling anyone stupid. What I am pointing out is the tendency in organizations to continue to do things that just do not contribute to success, or worse, contribute immediately to failure.…
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a fabulous end to 2014 and are off to a good start in 2015. We certainly have a lot going on here at DATAVERSITY, so let me jump right into the announcements. Starting today, we will be merging the two DATAVERSITY Education, LLC trade journals, DATAVERSITY.net and SemanticWeb.com.…
by Eric Franzon The W3C and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced today a new collaboration to improve interoperability and integration of spatial data on the Web. Spatial data —describing geographic locations on the earth and natural and constructed features— enriches location-based consumer services, online maps, journalism, scientific research, government administration, the Internet of Things,…
