Tag: Data management

June 1, 2023

Data analytics is the lifeblood of any successful business. Getting the technology right can be challenging but building the right team with the right skills to undertake data initiatives can be even harder. Successfully deploying big data initiatives requires more […]

April 13, 2023

Analyzing data in real time is an enormous challenge due to the sheer volume of data that today’s applications, systems, and devices create. A single device can emit data multiple times per second, up to every nanosecond, resulting in a […]

February 6, 2023

It’s 8 a.m., and a business leader is looking at a financial performance dashboard, questioning if the results are accurate. A few hours later, a customer logs in to your company’s portal and wonders why their orders aren’t showing the […]

December 19, 2022

In my October 2022 article, “How to choose a cloud machine learning platform,” my first guideline for choosing a platform was, “Be close to your data.” Keeping the code near the data is necessary to keep the latency low, since […]

December 2, 2022

There seems to be a clear trend in the world of cloud computing to return to IT fundamentals—the core problems that IT was set up to solve, such as data management, security, operations, governance, and development. All these things have […]

September 26, 2022

How an organization manages cloud data depends on who needs access to it, how often, from where, and for what purpose. In planning governance policies and processes, businesses must take into consideration the needs of the teams protecting the data […]

September 21, 2022

Starburst has updated its Data Products software with new capabilities that the company claims will ease cross-cloud analytics for enterprises that subscribe to its data management and analytics platform, Starburst Enterprise. Starburst’s Data Products, a software module within the Starburst […]

June 24, 2022

In case you are wondering who “she” is and what school she went to, Doris is an open source, SQL-based massively parallel processing (MPP) analytical data warehouse that was under development at Apache Incubator. Last week, Doris achieved the status […]

April 18, 2022

In 2006, British mathematician Clive Humby proclaimed, “Data is the new oil.” Humby had bona fides to make that claim. He and his wife, Edwinna Dunn, own Dunnhumby, a global customer data science company that helped Tesco create its Clubcard, […]

December 20, 2021

In the spirit of the last couple of years, we review developments in what we have identified as the key technology drivers for the 2020s in the world of databases, data management, and AI. We are looking back at 2021, […]

December 13, 2021

Enterprise data warehouses, or EDWs, are unified databases for all historical data across an enterprise, optimized for analytics. These days, organizations implementing data warehouses often consider creating the data warehouse in the cloud rather than on premises. Many also consider […]

October 22, 2021

When moving data from traditional on-premises systems to public clouds, what to do with the data is the primary focus. Many enterprises simply replicate their current data technology, governance, and security in their cloud provider, not really thinking about improving […]

August 6, 2021

To be kind, most enterprise data is less than optimal. Want to test this statement out at your company? Just ask where the customer data of record resides. If you ask someone in four different departments, you’ll get four very […]

May 25, 2021

The year 2020 is seared into CIOs’ collective memory as one of the most cataclysmic, consequential years this century. But while the pandemic helped drive digital transformation far beyond anyone’s expectations, make no mistake: This was not the perfect storm […]

May 14, 2021

The cloud is typically a destination for systems needing to be modernized to take advantage of technologies such as AI, predictive analytics, or a hundred other cloud services. It’s typically cheaper, it can be allocated and changed in minutes, and […]

December 11, 2020

I’m often asked, “How can I relocate data to the cloud, and improve the databases, applications, security, governance, and dataops as the migration occurs?” Everyone is looking for a shortcut or a magical tool that will migrate and automatically improve […]

September 1, 2020

It’s Friday, and you’re about to close your laptop and go to happy hour, when you get an urgent e-mail stating that due to data being illegally transported out of the country, the company has been fined $250,000. What happened? […]

April 13, 2020

For many of us, children are our most critical assets. In order to protect what is important to us, we work hard to know where they are and what they are doing at all times — particularly during those pesky […]

April 1, 2020

Multi-cloud environments are fast becoming the new norm in terms of developing hyper-scale infrastructure that can be easily adapted to meet business demands and deal with uncertainties in the global market. In the near future, most companies will adopt architectures […]

December 3, 2019

Let’s face it. We’re painting ourselves into a corner given the number of special-purpose, cloud-native databases we’re placing into production. This without regard to how we should be using those databases in ways that allow for easy access and understanding […]