Click to learn more about author Richard Mohrmann. Look, I’m telling you this as a friend. Seriously, it’s time to let go of your batch updates. It’s not a criticism; no one is at fault. It’s just that it’s time to move on. Yes, I know what you’re thinking. Your vendors and other providers send […]
Cloud Infrastructure Strategy: Laying the Foundations for Success
Click to learn more about author Lex Boost. Historically it was a heavy lift for many businesses to embrace cloud services. Obviously, that’s no longer the case – most businesses do not need convincing. In fact, users now require in-depth arguments why not to push everything into a flexible pool of resources. But an optimal […]
How NVMe Helps Manage and Maintain the Data Boom
Click to learn more about author Ron Herrmann. Every day there is an unfathomable amount of data – nearly 2.5 quintillion bytes – being generated all around us. Part of the data being created we see every day, such as pictures and videos on our phones, social media posts, banking and other apps. In addition […]
Why the Cloud is Perfect for Disaster Recovery
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. Disaster recovery (DR) is the perfect workload for the cloud. The main reason this is true is that disasters happen suddenly and without warning, which requires you to declare them in the same way. The cloud is ready to go at a moment’s notice, making it […]
Best Practices for Managing Blockchain Databases on Popular Cloud Platforms
Click to learn more about author Daniel Jebaraj. Blockchain technology is an important part of the modern development industry, with more and more developers of all stripes looking to utilize its unique properties. But for all of its potential, it still has to find a way to fit into existing channels and work with the […]
Extracting Maximum Value from Containers with Smart Availability Software
Click to learn more about author Don Boxley. Across vertical industries, containers are revered for their capacity to significantly impact the software and application development process. These portable execution environments enable a host of enterprise benefits readily codified into the following three areas: Scale Out: Containers scale out quickly, allowing any number of users to […]
Safeguarding Against the Risks of Self-Service Data Preparation
Click to learn more about author Mike Brody. Let me be the first to acknowledge that agility is important. BI product’s should be predicated on the idea that end users should have direct control over their own data. I believe that it’s better for business professionals to answer their own analytical questions than to inundate IT […]
Where Does the Data Live?
Click to learn more about author William Peterson. Where does the data live? A simple question that can have a very complex answer. But the reality may be that with a data fabric the answer doesn’t matter. Why? As we pointed out in the first blog in this series: “The next generation of Data Management will […]
Data Strategy Not Working? Grab a Cloud or Two or Three
Click to learn more about author Ingo Fuchs. Cloud has become a critical element of today’s IT strategies. You may not want to, but you have to consider how to best take advantage of cloud. Is your organization focusing on an IT Agenda? Is it focusing on a Transformation Agenda? If you answered yes to […]
Where Data Protection-as-a-Service Wins and Loses: Protecting Cloud Data with DPaaS
Click to learn more about author Mat Hamlin. As organizations move more data to cloud services, they must actively adapt their backup and recovery processes and solutions to maintain compliance to their defined governance policies and be able to prove so, when asked by internal and external auditors. Too few organizations understand that data protection […]