Click to learn more about author Ron Kol. The digital community is growing by the minute. In fact, over the past eight months it’s grown by more than 30 percent. It’s no wonder, then, that data – online data, to be precise – has taken center stage. When the market is moving so rapidly and […]
Th(re)e Things that Make Compliant Data Management Strategies
Click to learn more about author Stefan Vucicevic. Data Management has been changing tremendously. Each year, the volume of data we need to manage goes rapidly up, as does the number of sources where this data is generated. Previously, companies used email as the main source of communication. Today, email has given way to social […]
2020 DATAVERSITY Top 20
With 2020 now behind us, we here at DATAVERSITY are taking a moment to look back on the hits and misses of this unprecedented year. What content did you, our readers, seek out most during challenging times? Which topics helped you succeed as a data professional, and what should we focus more on in 2021 […]
Pandemic Cloud: Four Considerations in the Rush to Transform
Click to learn more about author Patrick Hubbard. Many businesses have pushed their cloud migration plans into overdrive in 2020. The emergency transition to work from home, significant changes in customer behavior, supply chain challenges, and existing pent-up digital transformation projects created a rapid-migration Voltron for many teams. There’s been amazing delivery on the part of […]
How to Create and Query a NoSQL Table
Click to learn more about author Alex Williams. NoSQL databases are incredibly versatile and flexible, and while it would be great if there was a general approach to creating and querying a NoSQL database, as there are dozens of NoSQL databases, that’s not the case. Instead, what we’ll do here today is give you an […]
Defining Purpose, Scope, and Objectives in a Data Governance Policy
Click to learn more about author Steve Zagoudis. In the last blog, we defined how to determine the target audience for a Data Governance policy. In this blog, we will begin to define the actual Data Governance policy. There are at least two primary documents that govern most working groups or committees. The first is […]
Data Centers, Cybersecurity, and the Cloud: How Lessons from 2020 Will Shape 2021
Click to learn more about author Amanda Regnerus. 2020 was a year of unprecedented events. Businesses were forced to take on the challenges of a boom in remote workforces, the necessity for online commerce platforms, and the lack of access to physical equipment. As we head into the new year, businesses will be more alert […]
Breaking Down Silos: Folding DBAs into DevOps Process
Click to learn more about author John Pocknell. With the rise of IoT, social media and cloud infrastructure continuing to increase the rate at which data is growing, businesses need to capitalize on the tremendous value that insights from this data can bring to driving growth and market share. This need has, in turn, led […]
Cybersecurity Threats and Opportunities to Expect in 2021
Click to learn more about author Anurag Kahol. 2020 has been an extremely tumultuous year. From a cybersecurity perspective, multiple high-profile Twitter users’ accounts were hacked in a sophisticated Bitcoin scam, remote workers became the priority focus for threat actors amid COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, and California has a stringent data privacy proposition in the works […]
Demystifying Master Data Management
Thomas Edison may have understood the importance of Master Data Management before the term was formally coined. He said, “The value of an idea lies in the using of it.” While ideas in the early 20th century relied on thoughts and things, ideas in this information age depend on data. Take reference data: unchanging tags […]