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 […]
Data Quality Tools and Solutions
Data Quality tools can help to make data more trustworthy and more manageable. Inaccurate data promotes poor decision-making, missed opportunities, and lower profits. As use of the cloud continues to grow and become more complex, Data Quality has become a critical issue. Data Quality tools, when used effectively, resolve the issues that cause these problems. […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Metadata Management vs. Master Data Management
Businesses rely on knowing their data to survive and grow. Metadata management and master data management (MDM) provide essential processes for organizations to gain this knowledge and succeed. As a result, both need to be managed well. However, the differences and intersections between metadata management vs. master data management are often complicated to disentangle for […]
4 High-Impact Data Quality Issues That Are Easily Avoidable
When we talk to prospective customers, their first questions are usually around the fundamentals of data quality, including what it is, how we measure it, what happens when it goes south, and how data quality issues can be prevented. Our answers always come back to the core that drives our mission: Data is the lifeblood […]
Preview of Data Privacy Trends for 2023
As we move into 2023, one thing at the forefront of many business owners’ minds is how to ensure data privacy in order to keep their company data and customers safe. Data privacy is becoming increasingly important to both companies and consumers, especially with the emergence of privacy regulations such the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). These […]
Transformational Inertia: Why So Few Digital Transformation Projects Succeed
Over the last 20 years of our experience helping companies achieve innovation and digital transformation success, we have observed that there are three critical resources an enterprise has at its disposal, that must be leveraged in an optimal way, to create success. Namely: time, political support, and investment capital – all of which tend to […]
How Encryption Works to Preserve Data Privacy
Cryptography and privacy go hand in hand: Leveraging cryptography to encrypt data for the purposes of preserving privacy isn’t a new concept. In fact, data encryption itself is quite easy. The far greater challenge is data decryption – or, put another way, making sure that encryption doesn’t get in the way of collaboration. After all, data is only […]