Over the past few years, enterprise data architectures have evolved significantly to accommodate the changing data requirements of modern businesses. The emergence of advanced data storage technologies, such as cloud computing, data hubs, and data lakes, makes us question the role of traditional data warehouses in modern data architecture. Data warehouses were first introduced in the […]
Understanding the Five Tenets of Intelligent Automation
Data-driven decision-making is a critical aspect of modern business operations, with most organizations leveraging enterprise applications to execute their business processes easily and effectively. However, the users of these tools have historically needed to make a majority of their decisions manually, outside the software, creating inefficiencies that have a negative impact on operations. Businesses are […]
Cyber Storage Resilience: How to Impact and Safeguard Data in 2023
All enterprise data ends up on storage systems, but if an enterprise storage solution does not have the cyber storage resilience to combat a cyberattack, the C-suite and the IT team are leaving the organization severely exposed. This realization is the trigger for what I see as the number one trend in data storage in 2023: making […]
How Federated Learning Is Helping to Overcome Obstacles in Machine Learning
Federated learning is a machine learning technique that allows multiple parties to train a model without sharing their data. It is being used across several industries, from mobile device keyboards to health care to autonomous vehicles to oil rigs. It is particularly useful in situations where data sharing is limited by regulation, or is sensitive or proprietary, […]
Goodbye Dashboards: How Modern BI Tools Are Being Used to Analyze Data
Not all that long ago, the only way for businesses to readily access their data was through dashboards. And, even then, these predefined and static dashboards provided data that was restricted only to citizen data scientists and data analysts. Standalone, static dashboards also inadvertently distract users and force them to shift their focus from their typical tasks […]
Beyond Traditional Backup Services: The Evolution of Workloads
Between 2020 and today, we have seen a tumultuous and transformative shift in the technological world. Of particular concern among organizations was a growing interest in new ways to manage invaluable data. Traditionally, data was stored in legacy backup services, including physical data centers, so when digital transformation accelerated, ensuring data remain secure and accessible became a […]
iPaaS Is Broken – Here’s How to Fix It
An Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) can help businesses obtain the full value of their software investments, delivering speed, agility, and scalability, along with a host of other benefits. But the current approach to iPaaS is instead holding businesses back. As the pace of digital transformation has kicked into overdrive in recent years, IT teams and […]
How to Ensure Data Integrity in Your Organization
We are living in an era of data and analytics. It is the time when organizations are consuming, generating, modifying, and exchanging an insane amount of data. Now, failing to keep track of data that is being consumed, generated, modified, exchanged, or deleted within your organization can have a major impact on your business decisions. […]
2023 Predictions for AI, Machine Learning, and NLP
It’s been an exciting year in AI, machine learning, and NLP, with text-to-image generators and large language models delivering some very impressive results and a lot of promise for the future – while noting all of the important caveats about their shortcomings including mitigating societal biases, the possibility of them being used to generate “fake […]
Merging Fast and Slow Data for a Full View of Human Intent
The digital industry has evolved massively and consistently over the years, often taking off in surprising directions. But one thing has remained constant: The role that data plays in driving business success has only grown. Looking toward the future, data-driven decision-making is an increasingly complex process, involving more and varied sources of data to stay ahead of […]