Order in the court! Order in the court! The case being heard is a serious one. The defendant—the Chief Data Architect of VeraVisionFake Inc.—is accused of having ignored the need to establish a valid and sound common data vocabulary in her organization. She is up against The Common Vocabulary Value regulatory agency, whose mission is […]
So You Want to be a Data Protection Officer?
The role of Data Protection Officer (DPO) is a security position and is a requirement per the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Brazil’s Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD). It is reasonable to expect the United States will develop its own version of the GDPR within the next four years. Many enterprises doing […]
Unifying Big Data Workloads
Try querying Big Data sets and computing results through high volumes and variety across multiple independent storage systems – you’ll find a tangled web in the Tower of Babel, where platforms communicate in different languages. Then ask for speedy manipulations with that data set and it seems almost impossible. This describes the challenge faced by […]
Data Governance vs. Master Data Management
“Data Governance is the creation of rules, the execution of those rules, and the adjudication of any violation of the rules,” remarked Frank Cerwin in a recent DATAVERSITY® interview. He likened its structure to the three branches of the government: “The legislative branch makes the laws, the executive branch executes the laws, and the judicial […]
Case Study: Centrica Succeeds with Data Discovery at Scale
“When you’ve got a mass of data, how do you analyze that data and get to a point where you can get the gemstones, the diamonds out of it?” Mike Young, Chief Information Officer with Centrica, knows what it’s like to wade through a sea of petabytes and terabytes to find value. Centrica is an […]
Prescriptive Analytics Use Cases
The term “prescriptive analytics” denotes the use of many different disciplines such as AI, mathematics, analytics, or simulations to advise the user whether to act, and what course of action to take. In that sense, prescriptive analytics offers an advisory function regarding the future, rather than simply “predicting” what is about to happen. This newer […]
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Protection
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques are altering the way organizations gather, process, and protect data. They are being used to gather massive amounts of information about internet users in the form of Big Data, and to secure and protect it. The challenge is how to maximize the use of Big Data, while simultaneously safeguarding […]
Handling Complex Data Storage with Blockchain and the Cloud
Blockchain technology, a distributed and secure database system, has been making significant advances since it first started gaining popularity a few years ago. It started out in the cryptocurrency world, but is also finding considerable usage in banking and finance, as well as asset settlement. But, can blockchain also be used for other use cases […]
Fundamentals of Data Stewardship: Frameworks and Responsibilities
If organizations must have Data Stewardship, but struggle with deploying valuable Data Stewardship programs, how can companies mitigate the challenges and get better results faster? The Art of War, by the Chinese military general Sun Tzu, provides insight. He advised, “strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise […]
In-Memory Database Architecture: An Overview
In-memory databases work faster than databases with disk storage. This is because they use “internal” optimization algorithms, which are simpler and faster, and this type of system requires fewer CPU instructions than a disk storage system. Additionally, accessing data that has been stored “in-memory” eliminates the need for seek time while searching for data. As […]