Data Management tools are used to develop and monitor practices, as well as organize, process, and analyze an organization’s data. These tools are designed to arrange and harmonize data, and should provide a high degree of efficiency and effectiveness. Data Management tools also support privacy, security, and the elimination of data redundancy. Effective Data Management […]
What Is a Wide Column Database?
Wide column databases, or column family databases, refers to a category of NoSQL databases that works well for storing enormous amounts of data that can be collected. Its architecture uses persistent, sparse matrix, multi-dimensional mapping (row-value, column-value, and timestamp) in a tabular format meant for massive scalability (over and above the petabyte scale). Column family […]
What Are Microservices?
Microservices are a flexible, single-purpose software program essentially compatible with any application. Think of them like individual pieces of furniture. Each article (e.g., a sofa, chair, or table) can stand apart and function. But the sum of things make-up the whole (e.g. a chair can surround a table for eating in a dining room or […]
The Need for Flexible Data Management: Why Is Data Flexibility So Important?
Click to learn more about author David Leivesley. We live in an era of big data. Amazingly, statistics show that around 90 percent of this data is only two years old. That indicates that businesses, moving forward, will need to anticipate using more and more of it. However, Data Management and structuring are notoriously complex. […]
Embracing 5G in Enterprise Data Storage
Click to learn more about author Martin Hansknecht. 5G, the fifth-generation cellular network, is on the cusp of becoming the primary data provider. Differing from its predecessors, 5G harnesses super-high-frequency airwaves that increase the rate of data transfer and decrease latency, allowing for upwards of 10 to 20 times quicker uploads and downloads than existing […]
Cloud Migration to Hybrid Environments: Ensuring Success
Click here to learn more about Gilad David Maayan. A hybrid environment is an infrastructure design, including some combination of public clouds, private clouds, or on-premise resources. It integrates these resources into a unified system in which you can access data and workloads across environments. A hybrid environment enables you to maintain applications or data […]
InterSystems Releases New Version of InterSystems IRIS Data Platform
According to a recent press release, “InterSystems, a creative data technology provider dedicated to helping customers solve the most critical scalability, interoperability, and speed problems, today announced the availability of the latest version of the InterSystems IRIS™ data platform. This is the third major release of InterSystems IRIS, the company’s flagship data platform that enables […]
Red Hat Accelerates Petabyte-Scale Object Storage for Cloud-Native Workloads
A new press release states, “Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 to deliver simplified, petabyte-scale object storage for cloud-native development and data analytics. Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 is based on the Nautilus version of the Ceph open source […]
The Future of Graph Databases Is Here: Introducing Neo4j 4.0
According to a new press release, “Neo4j, the leader in graph technology, announced today the general availability of Neo4j 4.0, the most significant product release in the graph technology market to date. The 4.0 release of the Neo4j graph database addresses the broad and complex challenges of application development in the decade to come, including […]
EnterpriseDB Announces Postgres Platform 12; Extends Leading Open Source Database
According to a recent press release, “EnterpriseDB, the enterprise Postgres company, today announced the worldwide general availability of its EDB Postgres Platform 12. This new version includes updates to the company’s flagship database management system (DBMS) and tools. These deliver scalability, high availability and disaster recovery that build on the capabilities of PostgreSQL 12 required […]