Click to learn more about author Ibrahim Surani Every organization integrates and shares data with multiple systems, processes, and individuals. With data being generated and consumed at unprecedented levels, the challenge is ensuring its integrity before it’s processed or fed into reporting and analytics databases. Consider a scenario, where you have to decide whether to […]
Data-Centric Architecture: Find Value with a Data Platform Approach
Applications provide a way to capture raw data in forms and store it in databases, and automated processes make it possible to extract meaning from that data using application programming interfaces (APIs). The current process-centric mindset assumes that the value resides in the automated processing, yet the limitations and costs inherent in its reliance on […]
Taking the Strain: How to Cope with Data Security and Growing Web Traffic
Click to learn more about author Lex Boost The current pandemic has caused many everyday activities to shift. From grocery shopping to going to the movies, stay-at-home orders have caused day-to-day activities to move online. This has resulted in a boom in website traffic to a range of e-commerce sites, streaming platforms, and any other […]
Graph Databases vs. Key-Value Databases
Graph databases and key-value databases have very different features and are used for accomplishing different tasks. Key-value databases are streamlined and fast, but are limited and not as flexible. Graph databases, on the other hand, are very flexible and great for research, but not terribly fast. Both typically use a non-relational foundation. The two key […]
Cloud Migration to Hybrid Environments: Ensuring Success
Click here to learn more about Gilad David Maayan. A hybrid environment is an infrastructure design, including some combination of public clouds, private clouds, or on-premise resources. It integrates these resources into a unified system in which you can access data and workloads across environments. A hybrid environment enables you to maintain applications or data […]
The Data-Centric Zero Trust Paradigm
Click to learn more about author Leonid Sandler. Traditional cybersecurity product categories separate data protection products from network security and cloud workload protection. The reasons go back to the history of the cybertechnology evolution and the major technology players’ spheres of influence. Ultimately, of course, the biggest motivation for any cybersecurity product across any of […]
Case Study: Tracking and Tracing Drugs in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
Failures or lack of visibility in the many-tiered pharmaceutical supply chain have multiple repercussions. Drug shortages have adverse economic and clinical effects on patients — they are more likely to have increased out-of-pocket costs, rates of drug errors, and, yes, mortality. Hospitals and health systems allocate over 8.6 million hours of additional labor hours to […]
Level of Trust Regarding the Protection of Business Data
Click to learn more about author Daniel William Carter. Since launching the EU-led General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), consumer data privacy has been the focal point of government regulators. Data breaches and corporate scandals about how companies manage user data have led to record-breaking fines. Immediately after the implementation of GDPR, France’s data protection agency […]
Optimizing the Data Warehouse
The data warehouse, a relational database technology, makes all enterprise information actionable, and will continue to be prominent as a Data Architecture component. In the 2000s, a typical business would consolidate data from multiple relational databases, centralizing all this information through a data warehouse, and consequently streamlining business tasks. However, the business context has shifted […]
Disaster Recovery Lessons from Tiger King: Why the 3-2-1 Rule Rules
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. You had to have been living under a rock to have not heard of Tiger King, Netflix’s latest true crime documentary. Watched by more than 34 million people in its first ten days, it’s the story of the self-proclaimed “Tiger King,” Joe Exotic. Spoiler alert: Don’t […]