Trust, teamwork, and technology form the core of Jewell Technical Consulting, Inc. (JTC) and its partnership with Leaseweb USA, a leading hosting and cloud services company whose offerings include Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions. JTC, a company providing private cloud services to North Virginia and D.C. metro businesses, was originally utilizing another hosting facility 20 miles way […]
What Is a Non-Relational Database?
A non-relational database describes a database with flexible storage and retrieval. While NoSQL databases form a subset of non-relational databases, non-relational databases also encompass any system that deals with high volumes of unstructured data at a lower cost. Many non-relational databases support SQL-compatible queries too. Data lakes and cloud databases can also be considered non-relational […]
What Is a Relational Database?
A relational database is a type of structure organizing data into groups through tables, that contain rows and columns. These tables connect by keys associated with each row in other tables. Data in any relational database can be added to, viewed, filtered, modified or deleted through a standard programming interface called structured query language (SQL). […]
What Is Kubernetes?
Kubernetes, or K8s for short, is an open-source system for automating, deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications. Initially internal to Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes is becoming widely adopted across the industry. It addresses two issues. Resources needed to run an API (Application Programming Interface) development may be spread across different hardware, clouds, and teams in different physical […]
Data Management vs. Business Intelligence
What is a company to do when Business Intelligence (BI), designed to leverage data as an asset, costs too much time and money due to failures in traditional Data Management processes, such as the prepping and cleaning of data? Should a business analyst, wanting to produce ad-hoc reports, have to be tech-savvy or wait for […]
Data Modeling Trends in 2020: A Year of Optimization
This next year demands quicker data-driven decisions, better automation, more integration, and more data, requiring optimized Data Modeling. Data Modeling refers to documentation describing core business rules and definitions around data. Business and technical shareholders benefit from Data Modeling by seeing complex data concepts in an intuitive, visual way. Throughout 2020, Data Modeling will need […]
What Is Data Storage?
Data storage describes what type of, where, and how hardware or software holds, deletes, backs up, organizes, and secures information. This includes keeping data in temporary or permanent storage. The digitization of manufacturing, known as Industry 4.0, is a good example of how the enormous volumes of data, real-time analysis, and quickness drive innovation and […]
Metadata Management Drives the Future of Data Management
Metadata Management makes a huge difference in finding critical data and helps enterprises not get lost within millions (or billions) of records. Metadata provides context about data, describing the information inside a data set, like a candy wrapper detailing the ingredients of the sweet stuff it encloses. This kind of data about data drives a […]
Case Study: Crisp Video Finds Confidence in Cost-Effective Cloud Storage
The last thing a manager wants to think about before falling asleep at night, is whether the customer data archived yesterday will be there tomorrow. Who knows when a client will come back years after project completion and ask for the video created back then? A supervisor needs confidence that data is automatically archived in […]
Database Management Trends in 2020
In 2020, database management will be a mosaic of old and new technologies. Many people have already implemented relational databases or data warehouses — 86.55 percent — according to the recent DATAVERSITY® Trends in Data Management Report. It will not be hard to see why data warehouses will continue heavy usage in 2020. They integrate […]