Click to learn more about author Julie Herd. Every day, new application workloads are being developed for online services, and many companies flounder because they are unable to process growing data volumes at a sufficiently fast pace. Consequently, they may not always make the best and most informed decisions and may be missing out on […]
Five Ways Data Integration Improves Profitability
Click to learn more about author Eran Rozenfeld. With the beginning of a new year, most businesses will share one common resolution – to increase profits in 2019. However, focusing on efforts to generate more sales is not enough. Finding ways to reduce costs by becoming more efficient is also an integral part of maintaining […]
A Glimpse into the Future of Modern Data Architectures with DataOps at its Core
Click to learn more about author Itamar Ankorion. Enterprises are building out modern Data Architectures to accommodate new analytic requirements, larger data volumes and take advantage of newer technologies such as cloud, data lakes and data streaming. These platforms make it possible to support digital transformation with modern analytics, delivering new services empowered by data […]
Pulling the Plug on Legacy Technology: What You Need to Know
Click to learn more about author Leon Adato. Being careful and steady can carry IT professionals through a number of rough spots, but eventually, even the best technology gets old and jammed up with digital duct tape—patches, workarounds, and inefficiencies. When is it time to take that legacy jalopy out for a final ride? This is […]
Ring in the New Year with 2019 Data and Tech Predictions
Click to learn more about author Patrick Hubbard. An annual (brief) respite in IT and the dawn of the new year provides an opportunity to reflect on lessons learned and to prognosticate on the year ahead, and certainly 2018 was one for the books. We finally saw progress in the growth of software-actuated infrastructures, suffered new […]
Data Virtualization and ETL: Friends or Enemies?
Click to learn more about author Ibrahim Surani. Traditionally, companies have relied on the use of Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) solutions to gather data from disparate sources and populate a data warehouse. However, increasingly complex IT infrastructures of businesses and the need to acquire near real-time or real-time data for accurate decision-making have compelled businesses […]
Protecting Your SaaS in 2019
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston Two things will happen a lot in 2019: the introduction of more SaaS storage vendors and more SaaS data loss incidents. Although it may sound that the two are directly related, that A leads to B, they are actually quite different. The latter is due to […]
Eliminating Cloud Data Management and IT Operations Security Woes
Click to learn more about author Don Boxley. Key elements of Data Management and IT operations continue to move to the cloud due to its numerous benefits, such as cheap storage, pay-per-use pricing, disaster recovery (DR), and on-demand resources. This trend shows no signs of slowing, and will undoubtedly continue for some time. Unfortunately, while […]
Predictions for Big Data Analytics in 2019
Click to learn more about author James Kobielus. Big Data Analytics has been one of the dominant tech trends of this decade, and it’s also been one of the most dynamic and innovative segments of the IT market. Today’s Big Data Analytics market is quite different from the industry of even a few years ago, and […]
Hybrid Cloud Computing: What Does it Mean?
Click to learn more about author Joe deBuzna. My previous blog post, The Cloud is Now, covered motivations on why organizations adopt the Cloud, and why IT is now embracing Cloud Computing. However, a move to the Cloud can be a complex undertaking, especially for organizations running many applications or even multiple on-premises data centers. Business […]