A recent press release reports, “Fugue, the company automating enterprise cloud security and compliance enforcement to prevent data breaches and policy violations due to misconfiguration, today announced the availability of Fugue Risk Manager. A Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, Fugue Risk Manager can identify compliance violations in cloud environments and automatically remediate unauthorized infrastructure changes. Enterprise cloud […]
AWS Announces New Amazon EC2 Instances and Networking Enhancements
According to a new press release, “Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced three new instance offerings for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2): (1) A1 instances—powered by custom-designed AWS Graviton processors for scale-out workloads. (2) P3dn GPU instances—ideal for distributed machine learning and high performance computing applications. (3) […]
Putting Things in Perspective: How Blockchain Can Shake the Banking Industry
Click to learn more about author Sonal Mehta. Banks are third party organizations that handle money transfer and financial transactions of their users by providing services. These services include storing money, accessing money, transferring them from one to different accounts or banks, etc. The money is stored in safe security boxes that are within a […]
How an Agile Approach Can Help Solve Your Data Problems
Click to learn more about author Mark Marinelli. Think of your current Data Management process. Is it effective? Are you able to get reliable data you need to carry out business functions served up to you in a timely, actionable manner? Today’s Data Challenge Businesses today face an ongoing data mastering challenge. Too many organizations […]
Monetizing Information? Show Me Your Data Model
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. I recently (finally) had the opportunity to read Doug Laney’s fine book about Infonomics. I have followed his work on this for years, because we share the ambition that data and information should be recognized as assets, just like factory equipment and trucks. Because data keep the […]
NPI Plus MDM Yields Omnichannel Success
Click to learn more about author Bruck Assefa. New product development and introduction requires the collaborative participation of different departments, often working in parallel. New product introductions (NPI) often represent a make-or-break opportunity for manufacturers and brands, especially in younger companies. Yet the statistics on NPI success are daunting — recent studies from LNS Research highlight […]
Panasas Introduces the Industry’s Only Plug-and-Play Portable Parallel File System
According to a recent press release out of the company, “Panasas today announced ActiveStor® Ultra, the next generation of its high-performance computing (HPC) storage solution, featuring PanFS® 8, the industry’s only plug-and-play, portable, parallel filesystem. ActiveStor Ultra expands Panasas’ leadership position in the HPC market by delivering up to 75 GB/s per rack on industry-standard […]
Data Literacy and the Colin Powell Rule: From Frontline Field Support to Back Office Operations
Click to learn more about author Paul Barth. Colin Powell famously said that leaders should make critical decisions based on a defined zone of uncertainty. Acting with less than 40% of the data needed is reckless; waiting for more than 70% of the data may be fatal. Balancing time and certainty is a challenge for […]
What is a Customer Data Platform?
Click to learn more about author Jonathan Lee. In the past year and a half DATAVERSITY readers have been exposed to new Customer Data Platform (CDP) offerings from vendors like BlueConic, RedPoint Global, and others. But what is a CDP? First introduced around 2013, CDP is a concept defined by the Customer Data Platform Institute […]
Scalyr Rolls Out New Troubleshooting Features to Advance Engineering Productivity
A recent press release states, “Scalyr, the unified observability and log management solution, today announced collaboration features, new integrations and Kubernetes awareness to strengthen engineering and operations productivity across modern, distributed architectures. With instant insights from across all log sources and applications, Scalyr gives teams the ability to work more efficiently and cross-functionally, monitoring and […]