Data sharing is a hot topic. Multiple analysts and consultancies have been featuring data sharing as one of the key enablers to successful business partnerships and accelerated growth. Both Gartner and McKinsey have good articles; indeed, Gartner boldly claims that “data and analytics leaders who share data externally generate three times more measurable economic benefit than those who do […]
What Kinds of Data Languages Will We Need in the Future?
IBM had a pole position on the Database Management Systems (DBMS) market by developing “DL/I” in the 1960s as a means for defining and using hierarchical databases. Under the product names of DL/I and IMS (Information Management System) this dominated the database market for many years. Everybody, except for IBM followers, called the product “D-L-1,” […]
Inter-Blockchain Communication: The Key to Blockchain Mass Adoption
Blockchain is expected to enable the world’s largest enterprises, organizations, and nations, as well as the average person to seamlessly trade and transact anytime, anywhere. But a barrier to the mass adoption of this revolutionary technology has always been that blockchains are decentralized and standalone. Each chain is independent and has a different set of codes and […]
Cloud Data Security: The Cost of Doing Nothing
The world has changed dramatically over the past couple of years – especially in the areas of business and technology. The COVID pandemic accelerated digital transformation and forced a shift to a remote or hybrid business model, leading to a significant spike in the adoption of public cloud services. Gartner estimates that public cloud services spending will increase […]
Building Analytics for External Users Is a Whole Different Animal
Analytics aren’t just for internal stakeholders anymore. If you’re building an analytics application for customers, then you’re probably wondering: What’s the right database backend? Your natural instinct might be to use what you know, like PostgreSQL or MySQL or even extend a data warehouse beyond its core BI dashboards and reports. But analytics for external […]
Optimizing the Cost of Azure Storage
Microsoft Azure Storage is a cloud-based storage service that provides organizations with a variety of storage solutions. Azure Storage provides: Cloud-based file sharing Message storage NoSQL storage Virtual machine disk storage Highly scalable object storage All storage products offered through Azure Storage are designed for high availability and redundancy. The underlying hardware that supports Azure Storage provides redundancy in […]
Data Warehouses Are Failing SaaS Apps: Why HTAP Databases Provide a Better Fit
As remote work continues to boom, enterprises are seeing increasing demand for SaaS products. SaaS apps are data-intensive, generating and accessing massive volumes of data in real time. Because of that, most organizations build SaaS apps on data warehouses instead of HTAP databases. For one, since SaaS apps operate on larger volumes of data, data warehouses […]
Modernizing COBOL: The Public Sector’s Achilles’ Heel
There’s a technological knack in the United States that’s only mirrored in a handful of other nations, making it a beacon of innovation. Businesses that grew to be formidable tech giants like Microsoft and Apple were spun out of their founders’ garages, growing from fledgling ideas into industry behemoths. But despite the U.S. tech sector […]
SaaS and Subscription: Complements, Not Synonyms
Two current trends in software go hand in hand but aren’t the same: software-as-a-service (SaaS) and subscription. SaaS refers to how the software is deployed and delivered to the end customer, while subscription refers to how that software is monetized. All too often, however, these two concepts are conflated. Let’s take a look at how they differ and […]
When Data and IT Infrastructure Are Overly Complex
As efforts to simplify IT infrastructure through automation are ongoing, the action to pinpoint where complexity resides is key. Data complexity not only complicates the user experience but also wreaks havoc in the backend for administrators and IT decision-makers. As the world of data has grown exponentially and transcended the borders of enterprises, the management of data […]