Understanding and fulfilling customer needs is the key to business success, and customer data is the foundation upon which that success is built. Accessing and analyzing data is almost always dependent on data engineers and other IT staff, while decision-makers wait to receive insights. One way to skip the wait, and deliver data directly to […]
Data Governance Tools Support Data Management
Data Governance, and the tools supporting it, reflect the growing importance of “automated services” when dealing with the laws and regulations that have been developed to protect privacy and societal norms. Data Governance has become a necessity for organizations using the internet. It is a collection of rules, policies, and standards designed to improve Data […]
2022 Predictions: Databases, AI, Chaos Engineering, and More
As we get started with 2022, organizations continue to leverage new strategies and technologies to maximize the value they get from data. These emerging trends will play a major role in shaping how enterprises use and harness data this year and beyond. Read on for our predictions regarding databases, AI, chaos engineering, and more. Siddon […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Carbon Neutrality Requires Good Data – and Blockchain
In November, global leaders met at the COP26 summit in Glasgow to discuss how to best meet goals to reduce carbon emissions on both a national and international scale and keep global warming within 1.5°C. However, the event made it clear that achieving carbon neutrality by 2030, or even keeping temperature change within 1.5°C, won’t […]