In the last 22 months, the world has changed both drastically and unexpectedly. In all areas of life, processes have been altered and redefined to fit the needs of the new landscape. Based on recent events, I believe that 2022 will represent a distinct focus on cyber risk and resilience driven by three key factors: […]
Why Tape Backup Is Experiencing a Renaissance in the Digital Era
There’s no shortage of stories reporting the (supposedly) imminent death of tape storage. The stories always cite the drawbacks of the technology, which, granted, are not insignificant. For many small and medium businesses, tapes can be labor-intensive, requiring a manual process to change them at the beginning or end of every day. Tapes can also be misplaced […]
The Future of Data Management: Five Predictions for 2022
As many have said, data is everything and everything is data. And the fact remains that the highest-value data sits in transactional databases behind applications like ERP, CRM, etc. To get the most out of data, it must be consolidated from many systems to unlock valuable business insights and feed applications such as machine learning […]
5 Ransomware Predictions for 2022
In 2021 ransomware was truly brought into the average family’s home. Their weekend BBQ and gas station fill-ups were affected by ransomware. Their nightly news brought talks of Russian hackers and numerous FBI alerts warning of advancing cyberattacks. Well, get ready, because a new year on the calendar is not going to end the disruptions to […]
Data Fabric and RegTech: When Data Needs a Specific Domain for the Regulator
Technology generates more and more data, regulators need to exercise more and more control, digital transformation is advancing, and traditional firms are changing and need to respond quickly to the new demands of regulators – not only to avoid sanctions but also to guard their processes and avoid security breaches and inconsistencies in their information […]
Observability: Driving Digital Transformation in 2022 and Beyond
In the last couple of years, we’ve seen rapid digital transformation take over with a large emphasis on cloud adoption. In 2022, we can expect this trend to continue, if not increase. The disruptions that spiked cloud adoption back in 2020 aren’t behind us just yet and many organizations still have modernization efforts that need […]
Webinar: Data Modeling and Relational to NoSQL
To view just the slides of this presentation, click HERE>> This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar Databases are like languages: it’s very useful to know more than one. NoSQL databases promise better performance, scaling, lower cost of ownership, and flexibility for many use cases. With recent advances in NoSQL including ACID transactions, SQL […]
Slides: Data Modeling and Relational to NoSQL
Data Modeling and Relational to NoSQL from DATAVERSITY To view the On-Demand Recording of this presentation, click HERE>> This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar Databases are like languages: it’s very useful to know more than one. NoSQL databases promise better performance, scaling, lower cost of ownership, and flexibility for many use cases. With recent […]
Preventing Data Breaches with Continuous Security Validation
Data breaches in the U.S. are on the rise, with millions of individuals impacted: According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, the number of data breaches from January to September 2021 (1,291) exceeded the number of attacks during all of 2020 (1,108). It’s possible that number is even higher because many companies often don’t disclose data breaches. Most […]
Property Graphs vs. Knowledge Graphs
One of the greatest strengths of graph databases is their ability to treat “relationships” between the data as being as important as the data itself. They show a visual image of a graph in response to queries. Graph databases are designed to hold data without restricting it to a fixed, predetermined model. As a consequence, […]