When Maria Voreh started at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), her first assignment was working on the Integrated Automated Fingerprint System (IAFS), technology often seen in police movies and television shows such as “CSI.” “They take a print and the machine does this magic work, and sub-seconds later the suspect is found.” Voreh is […]
How Healthcare Organizations Can Remedy Data Protection and Availability with Cloud DR
Click to learn more about author Don Boxley. With the COVID-19 pandemic showing few signs of slowing, together with virtually every reputable health authority warning of a second wave this Fall, most industries are reevaluating their data protection, availability, and disaster recovery (DR) strategies. Not surprisingly, healthcare is chief among those taking a hard look […]
A Brief History of Non-Relational Databases
First came relational databases, which provide a useful comparison for understanding non-relational databases. Invented by Edgar F. Codd in 1970, the relational database arranges data into different rows and columns by associating a specific key for each row. Almost all relational database systems use Structured Query Language (SQL) and are remarkably complex. They are traditionally […]