Click here to learn more about author Tejasvi Addagada. Most organizations have grown in-organically over the past few years with mergers and acquisitions where planning for data, lacked the focus. Moreover, there is no account on the growing private information that is collected, or was collected from customers, employees and third parties. Most of this […]
Data Security and Protection of Emails
Click here to learn more about author Cathy Nolan. No one can deny that email and email hacking was at the center of our recent Presidential election. If nothing else, the American public learned that putting personal information in emails is not much safer than posting it on one of the numerous social media sites. […]
Cyber Civil Rights: How Data Analytics Can Shape Civil Rights Litigation at the NAACP
Click here to learn more about author Kwame Gyamfi. Taking on the position of Chairperson for the Information Technology Committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter in my local district opened up a challenge for me to see how and where my skill sets fit within the oldest civil rights […]
Distributed Knowledge Marketplace
Click here to learn more about author Jeff Zhuk. Sharing knowledge is a noble and a very difficult job. The best subject matter experts (SMEs) in arts, philosophy and technology preserve a tiny fraction of what they know and want to share. On the other side, the learning process is so hard and expensive today that […]
Role of Containers in the Enterprise Data Center
Click to learn more about author Sushil Kumar. The core value of the use of containers lies in the fact that it enables an application-centric computing paradigm by unshackling applications from the underlying infrastructure. Containers should now be seen as something more than a tool to make developers more agile and productive. Container Hype and Confusion […]
Trusting Election Results—It’s All About Data Quality, Part 2
Click here to learn more about author Danette McGilvray. If you’ve read my recent post about trusting election results (link to post) you’ve read my commentary regarding what I consider a data quality mishap during the US election of 2000. That exploration highlighted the necessity of high quality, trustworthy data to the election process. Following the […]
Information Governance in Principle or Practice?
Click to learn more about author Kimberly Nevala. At the recent Data Governance Information Quality conference I was privileged to present how Big Data, the rise of the informed digital consumer and so on are challenging existing Data Governance and management paradigms. This led to many interesting discussions regarding the efficacy and relevance of existing […]
Defining Data Policy: The Iron Law of Data Protection
Click here to learn more about author David Schlesinger. Very seldom do we wake up in the morning with excitement about spending the day defining data policies. Little do we know that this can become a worthwhile activity and can eliminate myriad problems in the future for data administration and protection. While there appear to […]
Trusting Election Results—It’s All About Data Quality
Click here to learn more about author Danette McGilvray. As we are in the middle of the U.S. election season, I find myself thinking of how trustworthy elections are built upon accurate data. Many of us recall a situation in which doubt was cast over election results—the presidential election of 2000. It was a tight […]
Hybrid IT: Mapping the Networks You Don’t Own
Click to learn more about author Destiny Bertucci. Most organizations today are evolving toward a Hybrid IT enterprise architecture, posing new challenges for network administrators. In fact, a recent survey of IT professionals found that 43 percent of organizations estimate half or more of their IT infrastructure will be in the cloud in the next […]