Click to learn more about author Sudipta Kumar Ghosh. On-demand services that include shopping and entertainment, booking transportation and travel, and instantaneously paying back your friend for that dinner from your phone are proliferating in a high-tech world. As such, it’s a wonder that most traditional banking and financial institutions appear to be as antiquated […]
Big Data Ecosystem Updates: Hadoop, Containers, and VMs Explained
Twenty years ago, a startup called VMware brought in business by providing a platform to create nonphysical machine virtualizations, such as Linux, Windows, and others. As server processing capacity increased, basic applications couldn’t maximize the use of all the abundant new resources. Enter Virtual Machines (VMs), designed to run software on top of a physical […]
Data Operations and DataOps: Not One and the Same
Click to learn more about author John Pocknell. In today’s competitive enterprise landscape, having a proper DataOps strategy in place correlates with better data intelligence and optimization within an organization – breaking down silos and enabling data democratization and better business agility at scale. But DataOps as a methodology is not to be confused with data operations, which […]
Seven Principles to Put DataOps into Practice
You’re going to hear a lot more about DataOps in the coming months and the next couple of years. That’s the word from DataKitchen co-founder Eric Estabrooks. You know something is gaining market traction when Gartner includes it in a hype cycle report. The research firm did just that for DataOps in its Hype […]
Modern Data Integration Requires Hybrid Multicloud Data Fabric
Click to learn more about author Kendall Clark. What if data really is the fuel that powers engines of insight? Imagine a world exactly like ours in every way except for one key difference. Instead of the modern fossil fuel supply chain (i.e., Big Oil) being created before (or roughly coincident with) the mass production […]
5 Cybersecurity Best Practices Companies Should Follow
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month! All month long, we’ll be exploring cybersecurity-related topics to help you (and your data) stay safe online. Click to learn more about author Troy Gill. Cybersecurity Awareness Month is an important reminder for individuals and companies to reflect on their security best practices and ensure they are building the safest […]
Are VPNs Safe? It’s Complicated
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month! All month long, we’ll be exploring cybersecurity-related topics to help you (and your data) stay safe online. Click to learn more about author Francis Dinha. Like clockwork, it seems as though every time you check the news you see a story about a major hack of an organization’s VPN. Colonial […]
Case Study: Centrica Succeeds with Data Discovery at Scale
“When you’ve got a mass of data, how do you analyze that data and get to a point where you can get the gemstones, the diamonds out of it?” Mike Young, Chief Information Officer with Centrica, knows what it’s like to wade through a sea of petabytes and terabytes to find value. Centrica is an […]
How Companies Can Adapt to Global Data Privacy Regulations
Click to learn more about author Joe Gaska. On August 20, 2021, the People’s Republic of China passed its first comprehensive data privacy law, the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL). The law, set to take effect on November 1, 2021, includes several new obligations for companies handling personal information collected from the country’s citizens. It stipulates […]
What Is a Data Silo?
Data silos have often had a negative connotation. They describe isolated data islands that appear or are discovered upon finding disjointed Data Management components. These include: Systems that cannot programmatically work with other systems because of older or incompatible code Fixed data that is controlled by one department or team but is cut off from […]