In November, global leaders met at the COP26 summit in Glasgow to discuss how to best meet goals to reduce carbon emissions on both a national and international scale and keep global warming within 1.5°C. However, the event made it clear that achieving carbon neutrality by 2030, or even keeping temperature change within 1.5°C, won’t […]
Top Cloud and Cyber Asset Management Trends of 2022
Companies have been racing to mature their technologies and pursue digital transformations in the last few years, as a way to gain or maintain competitive advantage and resilience. This has led to an emerging area of focus: cyber asset management. Organizations are now taking inventory of their IT infrastructure and prioritizing more agile cyber asset […]
How AI Is Paving the Way for Improved Surveillance and Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is increasingly leaning towards artificial intelligence (AI) to help mitigate threats because of the innate ability AI has to turn big data into actionable insights. Rightly so, because the threat to data security is real, and across all industries. For instance, while there were fewer than 50 million unique malware cases in 2010, the number had […]
Practical Steps to Manage Data Privacy and Govern Data on the Blockchain
Blockchain is a technology that allows information to be recorded while protecting data against tampering, thereby maintaining integrity. While blockchain records information like a database, it differs from a traditional database in that it stores data in blocks that are linked as chains and are theoretically immutable. Capabilities of Blockchain That Enable or Disable Data […]
What Is Blockchain?
Blockchain is a distributed database and storage devices for the database are not all connected to a common processor. “A blockchain or distributed ledger,” as Gartner describes, “is a mechanism for adding trust in an untrusted environment.” Blockchain’s special capabilities in cryptography lead to this increased trust as a medium. Each transaction has a record. […]
A Checklist to Manage Your Database if You’re into DeFi
Click to learn more about author Hiral Rana. Decentralized finance, or DeFi, emerged as a part of the crypto industry in 2013. As the name suggests, DeFi refers to peer-to-peer applications that allow crypto trading, loans among other services to take place digitally. Such applications follow a decentralized structure, relying heavily on blockchains. In essence, they […]
Blockchain Apps on Bare Metal Servers (Part 2): Stability, Resiliency, and High Availability
Click to learn more about author Andreea Jakab. In part one of this series, we discussed blockchain security. To achieve the full potential of your application and of the blockchain technology, and to benefit from the digital transformation it can bring to enterprises, you should concentrate on and invest in the proper infrastructure to support it. Let’s go into […]
Blockchain Uses Multiply with New Database Innovations
Blockchain is still considered new technology, best known for supporting cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ether. But blockchain can provide security for a variety of purposes, ranging from privacy controls on medical records to preventing vote tampering. Ultimately, blockchain is a secure, encrypted database of agreements. Blockchain serves as a bookkeeping/contract platform which is incorruptible […]
Blockchain Apps on Bare Metal Servers (Part 1): Big Data and Security
Click to learn more about author Andreea Jakab. Blockchain applications are becoming more and more popular both in the public and private sectors. However, most people still put an equal sign between blockchain and bitcoin. But are cryptocurrencies the only use case for blockchain? Is that why the massive hype about it emerged in recent […]
The Future of Digital Currencies and Data Management
Click to learn more about author Stuart Tarmy. Interest in digital currencies (and, more specifically, cryptocurrency) has risen in the last year, due in part to the interest in touch-free financial transactions caused by the pandemic, rising mainstream business interest in cryptocurrency potential, and the momentum of private initiatives like bitcoin and Facebook’s Diem (previously […]