Those who use your software found it, love it, and want to use it. Unfortunately, some people use your software without paying for it. Software piracy – the use of software that’s been configured or tampered with to remove or bypass license enforcement – happens. So does overuse (use of software exceeding the limits of the […]
Do You Have “Okta” for Your Data?
SaaS platforms exploded in the last few years for excellent reasons: scalability, cost, accessibility, and flexibility. But like any explosion, it left some messes in its wake. For IT and security teams, in particular, the increasing number of solutions in use created a seemingly never-ending need to add users, remove users, or change permissions every […]
Challenges of Data Governance in a Multi-Cloud World
Today, it would be really hard to find a business totally free of cloud services. In spite of battling centralized “no-cloud” policies in some enterprises, individual departments, work groups, and units are increasingly subscribing to services for data storage and backup, media services, CRM, hosted analytics, and more. Even developers are using Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and […]
Advances in Data Warehouses
Data warehouses have advanced in the past few years, adding multiple enhancements and new capabilities. A data warehouse stores business data from a variety of applications and databases. It acts as a single repository, which an organization can access with BI (business intelligence) and analytics tools, before making decisions. A data warehouse provides faster processing […]
Data Warehouses Are Failing SaaS Apps: Why HTAP Databases Provide a Better Fit
As remote work continues to boom, enterprises are seeing increasing demand for SaaS products. SaaS apps are data-intensive, generating and accessing massive volumes of data in real time. Because of that, most organizations build SaaS apps on data warehouses instead of HTAP databases. For one, since SaaS apps operate on larger volumes of data, data warehouses […]
SaaS and Subscription: Complements, Not Synonyms
Two current trends in software go hand in hand but aren’t the same: software-as-a-service (SaaS) and subscription. SaaS refers to how the software is deployed and delivered to the end customer, while subscription refers to how that software is monetized. All too often, however, these two concepts are conflated. Let’s take a look at how they differ and […]
Move Over, Backup: It’s Time to Talk Data Resiliency
Your data is under attack more than ever before. The onslaught of cyber attacks around the world is unrelenting, and organizations of all sizes have found themselves on the other end of the ransom demand. As hard as it is to imagine, organizations like the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are warning us that things could get […]
The Mainstreaming of Multi-Cloud: Good or Bad?
The business world is increasingly reaching out to the public cloud for stable data center operations at optimized cost but at scale. In the recent years, managed services and multi-cloud consultancy firms have cropped up to reduce the chances of multi-cloud implementation failures, but the general lack of deep understanding and skilled employees are still […]
The Blame Game Undermines the Benefits of Cloud Adoption
It’s human nature to want to point the finger at someone else when something goes wrong, but even if responsibility rightfully lies elsewhere, that’s an ineffective way to solve a problem. Sure, root cause analysis requires identifying the source of an issue, but all too often, we stop short at the person or group exhibiting […]
Data Architecture Trends in 2022
The primary purpose of implementing a Data Architecture is to standardize the methods and protocols, as well as the systems for acquiring, storing, managing, and sharing data across the enterprise for improved decision-making. In modern businesses, most decisions are made in real time, and to facilitate an efficient and real-time friendly Data Management infrastructure, data […]