The sudden growth of business data in recent years due to streaming data technologies and Internet of Things (IoT), Mobile, and Big Data pipelines, has businesses struggling to put better Data Management practices in place. Organizations are constantly in search of advanced data collection and storage, Data Management, Data Governance, and Data Security platforms. Why […]
Redis Labs Collaborates with Red Hat to Deliver Redis Enterprise
A recent press release reports, “Redis Labs, the home of Redis and provider of Redis Enterprise, today announced collaboration with Red Hat to make Redis Enterprise available as a hosted and fully-managed database service on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, with built-in support for Kubernetes Operators. This collaboration enables joint customers to more quickly and […]
Artificial Intelligence Takes on Large-Scale Database Management
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is having a clear impact on databases. Among the major players, Microsoft is applying AI to continuously monitor Azure SQL database workload patterns and apply automatic tuning when it recognizes opportunities to improve the database performance, for example. And Oracle has unveiled the Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud, which uses Machine Learning to […]
Five Consistent Principles for the Changing World of Data Integration
Click to learn more about author Kevin Petrie. While few technologies sit still, Data Architecture is especially dynamic. Open source innovators and vendors continue to create new Data Lake, streaming and Cloud options for today’s enterprise architects and CIOs. With business requirements also evolving, placing solid strategic bets has rarely been more difficult. It’s therefore no […]
Encryption, Primary Keys and Infinity
Click to learn more about author David Schlesinger. A certain area of cyber security involves encryption. This necessarily includes a good passphrase, modular math and a lot of scrambling. Good encryption produces a coded message that appears like a series of random numbers. You see, in a real series of random numbers. There is infinite entropy. […]
Not Another Block in the Chain: Data and Blockchain Technology
Click to learn more about author Rex Chen. If more security breaches on social media and elsewhere happen, or if the number of accounts violated by groups both foreign and domestic increases, if the status quo persists, expect more people to insist that their data have better protection than the cyber equivalent of a chair angled against […]
Applied Use of Docker Containers and Database Clones
Click to learn more about author Paul Stanton. This is Part 2 of the “Docker Containers and Database Cloning for DBAs, Data Governance, and IT Decision Makers” Series. Part 1 of the series is at: Docker Containers and Database Cloning for DBAs, Data Governance, and IT Decision Makers: An Introduction, it provided an introduction to […]
Bridging the Gap Between Mainframe and Modern Data Streams: A Critical Business Need
Click to learn more about author Ibrahim Surani. Information overload is real. Every business today is swimming in a sea of enterprise applications, platforms, and data streams, and the water level rises every time a business expands its portfolio, invests in a new technology, or builds a strategic partnership. Integrating external resources such as survey […]
The Evolution of Smart Availability
Click to learn more about author Don Boxley. Regardless of computing environment, workload, or OS, availability is an essential part of operational success. Outages, system or application failures, and unplanned downtime are simply not acceptable for today’s pace of business in which even 10 minutes of inoperability translates to substantial data loss. What organizations are […]
Data Modeling Trends in 2018
The Database Management and Data Modeling landscapes have evolved significantly in the past few years, from the traditional relational model to now include non-relational models as well. The growth of Big Data and its unstructured and semi-structured data formats, along with trends in Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Data Lakes, Machine Learning, Blockchain and others pushing […]