Click to learn more about author Anne Hardy. It’s been a number months since the CCPA was enacted by the State of California. Still, companies are facing a whole new problem: a Data Management skills shortage. The CCPA gives individuals the right to a “verifiable consumer request.” This request requires enterprises to send the individual […]
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 […]
Change is Good, Monitoring Change is Better, Improving Change Monitoring is Best
Click to learn more about author Thomas LaRock. Change is good — that’s what “progress” is. Usually, changes make our apps better and improve our tools. But no one likes it when a bad change hobbles those apps and causes us to waste hours sifting through code to figure out where it all went wrong. And […]
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 […]
Is Your Company Prepared to Address New Data Privacy Regulations?
Click to learn more about author Gerald Beuchelt. Two years have passed since the inception of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This legislation placed the privacy conversation front and center in capitals and board rooms around the world. Since then, we have seen a heightened sensibility around data privacy and security with over 100 […]
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 […]
Working with Complex Data Models
Complex data models have now become the norm. A single stream of the data can travel through many hubs, and many different technologies. It may travel through the front end, the APIs, the Kafka pub/sub systems, Lambda functions, ETLs, data lakes, data warehouses, and more. Riding within this stream of data is the schema, and […]
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 […]