Click to learn more about author Ashok Sharma. Here’s news that may shock you about cyberattacks. No, it’s highly unlikely that your business is being targeted. Your data security is probably just weak. A Clark School (University of Maryland) study found that, on average, there is a hacker attack every 39 seconds, and these attacks affect […]
The 12 Days of Data Management
Click to learn more about author Scott Taylor. The Data Rants video blog series begins with host Scott Taylor “The Data Whisperer.” The series covers some of the most prominent questions in Data Management such as Master Data, the difference between Master Data and MDM, “truth” versus “meaning” in data, Data Quality, and so much […]
Accelerating Digital Risk and Data Security 2021 Trends
Click to learn more about author Jonathan Reiber. In this blog, I’ll note five trends that will accelerate digital risk or emerge as vital conditions for managing digital risk over the coming year. 5G and IoT will increase the speed of attacks and enable more actors to conduct a wider range of operations against targets […]
Metadata Management and Analytics: What is the Intersection?
Metadata Management implies a set of activities, which administer data for better usage and outcomes. Thus, this practice involves establishing stringent roles, responsibilities, policies, and processes to ensure that data-driven information is available, accessible, sharable, and maintainable across an organization for the best analysis and application of such information in daily business. In that sense, Metadata […]
The Future of Online Data Collection Supercharged
Click to learn more about author Ron Kol. The digital community is growing by the minute. In fact, over the past eight months it’s grown by more than 30 percent. It’s no wonder, then, that data – online data, to be precise – has taken center stage. When the market is moving so rapidly and […]
Th(re)e Things that Make Compliant Data Management Strategies
Click to learn more about author Stefan Vucicevic. Data Management has been changing tremendously. Each year, the volume of data we need to manage goes rapidly up, as does the number of sources where this data is generated. Previously, companies used email as the main source of communication. Today, email has given way to social […]
2020 DATAVERSITY Top 20
With 2020 now behind us, we here at DATAVERSITY are taking a moment to look back on the hits and misses of this unprecedented year. What content did you, our readers, seek out most during challenging times? Which topics helped you succeed as a data professional, and what should we focus more on in 2021 […]
Pandemic Cloud: Four Considerations in the Rush to Transform
Click to learn more about author Patrick Hubbard. Many businesses have pushed their cloud migration plans into overdrive in 2020. The emergency transition to work from home, significant changes in customer behavior, supply chain challenges, and existing pent-up digital transformation projects created a rapid-migration Voltron for many teams. There’s been amazing delivery on the part of […]
How to Create and Query a NoSQL Table
Click to learn more about author Alex Williams. NoSQL databases are incredibly versatile and flexible, and while it would be great if there was a general approach to creating and querying a NoSQL database, as there are dozens of NoSQL databases, that’s not the case. Instead, what we’ll do here today is give you an […]
Defining Purpose, Scope, and Objectives in a Data Governance Policy
Click to learn more about author Steve Zagoudis. In the last blog, we defined how to determine the target audience for a Data Governance policy. In this blog, we will begin to define the actual Data Governance policy. There are at least two primary documents that govern most working groups or committees. The first is […]