Click to learn more about author David Balaban. The scourge of ransomware is mutating into a phenomenon with a two-pronged extortion plan at its core. Schemes used to rely solely on encryption making a victim’s data inaccessible, but a game-changing tweak in the “classic” attack chain took place in late 2019. A number of ransomware […]
Roll Call: Visual Graph Data Models Today
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Preamble: Five years ago, I wrote a book about a new approach to Data Modeling — one that “turns the inside out.” It discussed visual Graph Data Modeling. For well over 30 years, relational modeling and normalization were the name of the game. One could ask that […]
How to Protect Endpoints for Remote Employees
Click to learn more about author JG Heithcock. The worldwide pandemic is forcing employees to work from home in a distributed environment for businesses across the world. According to an April 2020 survey of 25,000 U.S. workers, over half of the workforce in the United States is now working remotely. These are unprecedented times, and […]
A Gentle Introduction to Azure File Storage
Click here to learn more about Gilad David Maayan. Microsoft Azure is ranked amongst the top cloud computing vendors, competing for market share with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Azure is known for its enterprise-level cloud services, many of which provide features for easy integration, implementation, and management of hybrid architectures. […]
What is a Data Modeler?
A data modeler is a person who models data or documents software and business system designs. By doing this, a data modeler translates business needs into technical specifications. Developers and other IT members benefit from this when creating new data systems and troubleshooting and maintaining them. Data models promote consensus among developers, customers, and other […]
Knowledge Graphs: Context, Compliance, and Connections
“Graph is leaving a larger and larger footprint. And that is good,” said Thomas Frisendal in Knowledge Graphs and Data Modeling. Gartner named knowledge graphs as part of an emerging trend toward digital ecosystems, showing relationships among enterprises, people, and things, and enabling seamless, dynamic connections across geographies and industries. Elisa Kendall and Deborah McGuinness, […]
How to Optimize Kafka Deployments Using Apache ZooKeeper
Click to learn more about author Zeke Dean. True to its name, Apache ZooKeeper corrals the proverbial zoo of otherwise unruly elements within an Apache Kafka cluster. The open-source ZooKeeper project delivers a centralized way of coordinating Kafka’s brokers and cluster topology, serving as a file system that ensures the consistency of Kafka configuration information. […]
SD-WAN: The Savior of Remote Work Challenges
Click to learn more about author Patrick Miller The desire for certainty has never been stronger, and our new normal does show signs of improving, but as we all found out early this spring — nothing is certain. As more businesses return to work, we should focus on what we do have control over our […]
It’s 9 AM: Do You Know What Your Employees are Downloading?
Click to learn more about author Michael Morrison. The world irrevocably changed in March 2020. For years, pundits and technology leaders said that remote work was the future. Businesses were hesitant to lean into the model because of their unfounded fear that — despite mountains of evidence to the contrary — employees couldn’t maintain productivity […]
How GDPR Has Influenced the World
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. The General Data Protection Regulations (the GDPR) of the European Union may not have solved all data privacy issues in the European Union, but it has definitely cemented the all-important idea of data privacy into the world’s collective consciousness. On this two-year anniversary of the GDPR, […]