With everything on a business leader’s plate, cybersecurity can often feel like an afterthought. Between managing teams, pursuing new opportunities, and dealing with the bottom line, who has time to keep up with the latest hacker threats and security defenses? Especially if you don’t have your IT staff focused solely on locking down the castle […]
How to Make Generative AI Work for Natural Language Queries
As businesses increasingly rely on data-driven decision-making, the volume and complexity of data within enterprises have grown exponentially. However, processing this data and deriving actionable insights remains challenging due to the reliance on human analysts. The explosion in interest surrounding text-to-SQL (T2SQL) solutions and the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have presented […]
Chief Officers: Do You Know What Your Data is Costing You?
CXOs this year have witnessed a rollercoaster economy amid plenty of turbulent events – from ongoing inflation affecting consumer spending to large stock market swings, major overseas conflicts, and the uncertainties of an election year. Not surprisingly, the economic forecast remains murky at best. According to a CNBC CFO survey, CFOs seem to agree that […]
The Hidden Pitfalls of Cloud-Based Managed MySQL Services
Cloud-based managed MySQL data services are being aggressively marketed to organizations with the promise of streamlining their database management. These “managed data services” are an alternative to more traditional “non-managed data services” – software solutions with embedded intelligent proxies and cluster management using native MySQL run on-premises, in the cloud, or a hybrid cloud. These […]
DAS Webinar: Best Practices in Metadata Management
Download the slides here>> This webinar is sponsored by: and About the Webinar Metadata is hotter than ever, according to a number of recent DATAVERSITY surveys. More and more organizations are realizing that in order to drive business value from data, robust metadata is needed to gain the necessary context and lineage around key data […]
The Hidden Language of Data: How Linguistic Analysis Is Transforming Data Interpretation
From Fortune 500 companies to local startups, everyone’s swimming in a sea of numbers, charts, and graphs. But here’s the thing: While structured data like sales figures and customer demographics have long been the backbone of analytics, there’s a growing realization that unstructured data is the real goldmine. Think about it. Every tweet, email, customer review, and social […]
Data Product vs. Data as a Product (DaaP): Understanding the Difference
Data quality (DQ), which ensures that data is fit for business and consumer needs, remains a significant challenge and is growing more complex. According to a dbt Labs 2024 report, 57% of survey respondents identified data quality as a challenging aspect to data preparation, up from 41% in 2022. To address these data quality challenges, companies increasingly […]
Achieving Cost-Efficient Observability in Cloud-Native Environments
Cloud-native environments have become the cornerstone of modern technology innovation. From nimble startups to tech giants, companies are adopting cloud-native architectures, drawn by the promise of scalability, flexibility, and rapid deployment. However, this power comes with increased complexity – and a pressing need for observability. The Observability Imperative Operating a cloud-native system without proper observability […]
Unstructured Data Hinders Safe GenAI Deployment
Enterprises are going all in on generative AI (GenAI), with the technology driving a massive 8% increase in worldwide IT spending this year, according to Gartner. But just because businesses are investing in GenAI doesn’t mean they’re broadly implementing it in actual production. Organizations are eager to wield the power of GenAI. However, deploying it safely […]
Zero Emissions Day: How Data Centers Are Pioneering the Path to a Carbon-Free Future
In this ever-changing world, responsible management of our limited resources is increasingly important. It’s no secret that data centers consume a lot of power, but there are multiple ways in which data center operators reduce their energy consumption and optimize their power utilization. Aside from tracking energy consumption, energy intensity and PUE, many have even […]