Only CPT and its peers know how many statements have been made based on results from generative AI. But there are loads of them. My background as a data modeler over many years makes me shiver a little bit, because what the friendly AI helpers help us produce is subjected to cognitive processes, where we, the readers, process […]
Data Governance Best Practices for Your Business
Data Governance is a strategic approach to managing, protecting, and using a firm’s data assets. It encompasses processes, policies, strategies, and tools that govern how a firm collects, stores, accesses, and leverages data. With Data Governance best practices, a firm can ensure data integrity, mitigate associated risks and challenges, and improve Data Quality. This can […]
Zero-Trust Data Management Is the Future – How You Can Get Ready Today
In an age of escalating cyber threats, the security approaches of old are no longer adequate to safeguard sensitive data. Traditional strategies have always depended on perimeter-based defenses, believing that dangers originated outside and that – once inside – everything was trustworthy. This strategy, however, is now obsolete due to the inception of perimeter-less work environments […]
AI Regulation Must Focus on Building Public Trust
Mere months after generative AI captured the world’s attention, leaders like OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Google’s Sundar Pichai testified before Congress with a simple message: Prioritize AI regulation before the technology gets out of hand. The message surprised many – especially coming from the leaders who unveiled the revolutionary tools themselves – but it has become […]
Why a Data Diet Can Drive Better Results for Marketers
Advertising has a data problem. Outwardly, marketers enthuse about their ability to target consumers with precision, harnessing a wealth of data to drive them through the sales funnel and towards purchase. With every customer interaction, every ad impression, every dollar of ad spend being collated and turned into a data point, the insights available should […]
Four Steps to Ensure a Smooth Cloud Migration
When it comes to cloud migration, there’s a lot to consider – which workloads should be migrated, how much storage space is needed, which cloud provider is best for your workloads, not to mention how much it will cost. But the biggest mistake that organizations can make when migrating to the cloud is not asking these questions […]
Data Security Posture Management (DSPM): A Technical Explainer
Data is growing on a massive scale – it spreads across geographies, systems, networks, SaaS applications, and multi-cloud. Similarly, data security breaches are following suit and increasing in number (and sophistication) every year. Organizations must modernize their approach to cybersecurity and start giving equal attention to data and infrastructure. Here, data security posture management (DSPM) comes into the […]
Observability Maturity Model: A Framework to Enhance Monitoring and Observability Practices
Imagine this heartfelt conversation between a cloud architect and her customer who is a DevOps engineer: Cloud architect: “How satisfied are you with the monitoring in place?” DevOps engineer: “It is all right. We just monitor our servers and their health status – nothing more.” Cloud architect: “Is that the desired state of monitoring you […]
Navigating the Risks of LLM AI Tools for Data Governance
The sudden advent of large language model (LLM) AI tools, such as ChatGPT, Duet AI for Google Cloud, and Microsoft 365 Copilot, is opening new frontiers in AI-generated content and solutions. But the widespread harnessing of these tools will also soon create an epic flood of content based on unstructured data – representing an unprecedented […]
AI and Big Data: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming the Business Landscape
For as long as people have been conducting business, they have been using technology to enhance their efforts. In the late 18th century, industrial technology launched a revolutionary era of accelerated business growth. And in the late 20th century, the digital revolution transformed the business world again, leveraging AI and big data to boost efficiency […]