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When Key-Value Databases Buckle Under the Pressure

Click to learn more about author Tal Doron. Data processing speeds have a huge business impact on enterprises that require time-sensitive processes and applications. Whether organizations need analytics to optimize business operations, track customer preferences and activities to provide timely, targeted, and personalized campaigns, or comply with regulations, performing at split-second speeds is an important […]

What Is an ETL Developer?

Click to learn more about author Edwin Lisowski. What is ETL? To begin with, ETL stands for extract, transform, and load. ETL allows businesses to collect data from various sources into one database. The process consists of three stages: 1. Reading data from a database2. Converting the extracted data into a form that can be […]

What Is a Database Administrator (DBA)?

A database administrator (DBA) is a person who manages, maintains, and secures data in one or more data systems so that a user can perform analysis for business operations. DBAs take care of data storage, organization, presentation, utilization, and analysis from a technical perspective. The DBA job is transitioning from being database-centric to data-centric, as […]

A Brief History of Data Lakes

Data Lakes are consolidated, centralized storage areas for raw, unstructured, semi-structured, and structured data, taken from multiple sources and lacking a predefined schema. Data Lakes have been created to save data that “may have value.” The value of data and the insights that can be gained from it are unknowns and can vary with the […]

The Impact of Data Growth on Enterprises

Click to learn more about author Ibrahim Surani. Data has changed the world we live in. Today, enterprises utilize data to introduce new business models, enhance customer experience, generate new revenue streams, create personalized services, and become more agile. This reliance is only increasing with time as the world experiences unprecedented data growth. This data […]

How to Protect Endpoints for Remote Employees

Click to learn more about author JG Heithcock. The worldwide pandemic is forcing employees to work from home in a distributed environment for businesses across the world. According to an April 2020 survey of 25,000 U.S. workers, over half of the workforce in the United States is now working remotely. These are unprecedented times, and […]