Click here to learn more about Anas Baig. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has gone into effect, and organizations are looking for ways to comply with this regulation as efficiently and cost-effectively possible. Several frameworks can be used to help narrow down the route you should take when trying to comply with the CCPA. […]
Research Reveals Shortcomings in Data Literacy Projects: Don’t Let This Happen to You
Click to learn more about author Kartik Patel. Data Literacy is a hot topic in business today. As businesses struggle to remain competitive and to do more with less, every enterprise is looking for a way to optimize resources to get the most out of every team member. To do that, the business management team must […]
Smart Cities Venture to the Edge for Data Processing
Click to learn more about author Bernard Brode. There is a growing consensus that the “smart city” is the only real solution to the challenges faced by urban planners and city governors. With more than half of the world’s population now living in cities, the focus on harnessing the exponentially larger amount of data generated […]
The Role of the DBA: Ensuring Business Continuity from a Remote Setting
Click to learn more about author John Pocknell. With global organizations shifting to a work from home (WFH) environment due to the current global crisis, many have found themselves putting IT processes in place to ensure business continuity. With thousands of remote employees working across different networks, database administrators (DBAs) particularly have been put on […]
Navigating Modern Container and Cloud Architectures with Stateless Data Security Models
Click to learn more about author Mark Bower. There are very obvious indications that the shift to contemporary cloud application strategies, and, in particular, modern container workload models, is accelerating even more during the current pandemic. This is driven by the cost benefits of re-platforming core IT to enable accelerated change to market conditions and […]
Why You Should Go Beyond Checkbox PCI Compliance
Click to learn more about author Rob Chapman. One of the first books I ever read that wasn’t a school assignment was The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. My father gave it to me shortly after he finished it, and it was the first real “grown-up” book I ever read. There […]
How Data Intelligence is Shaping the Future of the U.S. Renewables Sector
Click to learn more about author Hanno Schoklitsch. The United States renewable energy sector has, in recent years, been hailed as one of the more promising American investment markets. Driven largely by the combination of improved technologies, favorable government policies, increasingly climate-conscious consumers, and risk-averse activist investors, the share of U.S. utility-scale electric power generated […]
The Right Data is the New Black, and How Leading Brands Obtain It
Click to learn more about author Julius Cerniauskas. The digital universe is expanding fast. According to a SINTEF study conducted back in 2013, 90 percent of all the world’s data was generated from 2011 to 2012. By 2020, the number of data bits created globally was expected to reach 44 zettabytes, as predicted by 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 […]
vSAN: Answering the What’s, How’s, and Why’s
Click to learn more about author George Williams. vSAN or virtual SAN has become an integral part of most enterprise IT infrastructures. It’s the next step for organizations that relied primarily on SAN appliances. In this blog post, I’ll discuss the basics of virtual SANs and attempt to answer the what’s, how’s, and why’s for […]