Click to learn more about author Dave Bermingham. Today, organizations are buying cloud infrastructure services rather than on-premises hardware and software. For those companies running mission-critical SQL server environments, cloud vendors promise geographically distributed cloud data centers that make it easy to configure SQL server instances for high availability (HA) and/or disaster recovery (DR). This […]
What’s the Difference Between a Data Breach and Identity Theft?
Click to learn more about author Ben Hartwig. The most revolutionary contributions to the modern world have been made by technology. Today, we cannot imagine a world without digitization and automation. However, where technology has made life quicker and more convenient for us, it has also produced an unfortunate byproduct — fraud. With people sharing […]
Learning from Complex Data Modeling Practices
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Now is a good point in time to look at best practices in database design for SQL databases. Are there things that could have been easier to do if the SQL designers had had absolute foresight? Of course, the answer is yes. But what is most important […]
Knowledge Graphs: A Single Source of Truth for the Enterprise
Click to learn more about author Dr. Jans Aasman. The notion of a “single source of truth” for the enterprise has been the proverbial moving goalpost for generations of CIOs, only to be waylaid by brittle technology and unending legacy systems. Truth-seeking visions rebuffed by technological trends have continuously confounded business units trying to achieve growth […]
Redis: Understanding the Open Source Data Store’s Primary Uses and Challenges
Click to learn more about author Bassam Chahine. Redis, which stands for “REmote Dictionary Server,” is a speed-optimized in-memory data store most often used as a cache. Redis has data structure versatility — from strings, lists, dictionaries, and sets, to support for approximate counting, geolocation, and stream processing. While Redis is configured as a cache […]
What Are GPUs and Why Do Data Scientists Love Them?
Click to learn more about author Eva Murray. Move over, CPUs. The GPUs have arrived in modern enterprises, and data scientists are eager to use them for their modeling and deep learning applications. Why is this happening, and what are the advantages GPUs bring for Data Science applications? Read on and find out. What Are GPUs? GPUs, or graphics […]
Open Source, Cloud, and Data: How to Plan Ahead
Click to learn more about author Matt Yonkovit. For most Data Management projects today, open source will be included in some form or other. From the databases that store the data to the management tools that manage and protect that data, or the analytics projects used to interrogate or display that data, open source plays […]
Agility: A Scalable Way for Businesses to Survive a Crisis
Click to learn more about author Matt VanderZwaag. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the business landscape. We have seen restaurants offer curbside pick-up, retailers launch new inventive ways to boost online sales, and tech companies release new apps and features to adapt to this new reality. The sudden and unexpected changes are causing businesses to […]
Contact Tracing Apps Resurgent After Early Success for Google and Apple’s Design
Click to learn more about author Brian Jackson. After a false start based on poor software design, mobile apps for contact tracing are relaunching around the world with a privacy-first approach, and there is early promise out of Europe that these apps could make a difference in the war against COVID-19. In Ireland, Germany, and […]
Unify Data Governance with Data Architecture
Think of an organization trying to create a single understanding of the information of the organization and the instances of that data around its estate. Consider different groups of people contributing to and using this model from different perspectives and varying reasons. And view this in the context of Data Governance, Data Architecture or Business […]