When setting up an Apache Cassandra table schema and anticipating how you’ll use the table, it’s a best practice to simultaneously formulate a thoughtful compaction strategy. While a Cassandra table’s compaction strategy can be adjusted after its creation, doing so invites costly cluster performance penalties because Cassandra will need to rewrite all of that table’s data. Taking […]
Why the Consumable Form of Data Needs Your Attention
How organizations manage their data directly impacts their success or failure. The correlation between data analytics and intelligence to competitive advantage and growth has led to heavy investments in those technologies throughout the last decade. So, if you consider that content is the consumable form of data, then it follows that the era of big […]
How Data Can Prevent Software Piracy and Drive Licensing Revenue
Those who use your software found it, love it, and want to use it. Unfortunately, some people use your software without paying for it. Software piracy – the use of software that’s been configured or tampered with to remove or bypass license enforcement – happens. So does overuse (use of software exceeding the limits of the […]
Five Types of Advanced Analytics Challenges
Many data scientists and analytics consultants complain they were hired to be a part of advanced analytics teams at corporations, but all they do is data analysis or reporting work. The bigger problem here is that the personnel leading these teams genuinely believe their problem statements are advanced in nature. And rightly so – as […]
Data Trustability: The Bridge Between Data Quality and Data Observability
If data is the new oil, then high-quality data is the new black gold. Just like with oil, if you don’t have good data quality, you will not get very far. You might not even make it out of the starting gate. So, what can you do to ensure your data is up to par and […]
Facing the New Cloud Security Challenges
Based on the 2021 report “State of Cloud Security Concerns, Challenges and Incidents” from Cloud Security Alliance, 41% of participants didn’t know if they had a cloud security incident in the past year. That percentage has doubled since 2019. There’s no shortage of cloud security threats. When organizations use several providers and public clouds to meet their […]
Innovations in Deep Analytics Are Critical to the Future of Supply Chains
Digital transformation accelerated very quickly during the global pandemic, leading to 10 years of innovation in just three months. The abrupt changes came mere weeks after the rules of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect and just a few months before they were enforced. As the risk of new fines piled up – at […]
Managing Technology Assets: 10 Best Practices
The effects of the pandemic have popularized a unique work style that places a higher value on providing employees with the options of either a hybrid or a fully remote work environment for many employees. In fact, 81% of people surveyed believe hybrid work will be the foremost working model by 2024, with 56% of […]
Understanding Machine Learning Within an AI Context
Machine learning is ubiquitous in our everyday life. Whether or not you know it, the odds are that machine learning powers the applications you use daily. It’s the underlying technology behind many apps on your smartphones, from Siri to virtual assistants to Google Maps and more. Businesses also use AI and machine learning to automate processes, gain […]
Applying the Principle of Least Privilege to Multi-Cloud Environments
Organizations across all industries are adopting cloud computing models for their flexible, scalable architectures and globally available solutions. Many startups and small businesses are also benefitting from the advanced data security solutions packaged with their cloud service provider offerings, which they wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford. However, these data security solutions require careful management. Organizations don’t […]