Data Management vendor erwin Inc. has been following through on the plans it discussed with DATAVERSITY® last year, shortly after its acquisition from CA Technologies by private equity firm Parallax Capital Partners. Its efforts to bring together Data Modeling, Business Process Management, and Enterprise Architecture domains to support the data-driven enterprise have been in evidence with its acquisitions […]
How are New Data Technologies Affecting Data Quality and Data Governance?
Data Quality and Data Governance have been an ongoing concern among global data technology vendors and enterprises for some time. Privacy and security issues are no longer the headaches of large enterprises alone; Big Data, Hadoop, Cloud Computing platforms, the Internet of Things (IoT), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings, and social data have all added to rising […]
Cloud Computing: Latest Trends, Issues, and Innovations
Cloud Computing is an essential part of many enterprises’ Data Architecture; and, not just in new enterprises, but throughout multiple industries and in companies of all sizes. Gatepoint Research has done a survey showing why. IT pros and business executives both like the advantages of Cloud storage. Access to data, after a disaster, came in […]
CloudPassage Now FedRAMP Ready
According to Marketwired, CloudPassage today announced that it is the first Cloud Service Provider (CSP) to achieve “FedRAMP Ready” status through the new accelerated Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP Accelerated). Earning FedRAMP Ready status is the first phase in a three-phase process to attain an authorization to operate (ATO). As a result, the […]
Sisense Named to First-Ever Forbes 2016 World’s Best 100 Cloud Companies List
by Angela Guess A recent release out of the company states, “Sisense, the business intelligence market disrupter for simplifying business analytics for complex data, today was named to the first-ever Forbes 2016 Cloud 100, the definitive list of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, developed in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners. To […]
SnapLogic Named a Global Leader in Cloud Computing
by Angela Guess A new release out of the company reports, “SnapLogic, the industry’s first unified data and application integration platform as a service (iPaaS), today announced that The Business Intelligence Group has awarded the company a 2016 Stratus Award in its annual contest. The organization sought to identify the companies, products and people that […]
Study: Cloud Data Security Still a Challenge for Many Companies
by Angela Guess A new release out of Gemalto states, “Despite the continued importance of cloud computing resources to organizations, companies are not adopting appropriate governance and security measures to protect sensitive data in the cloud. These are just a few findings a Ponemon Institute study titled ‘The 2016 Global Cloud Data Security Study,’ commissioned […]
Data Education Programs at Florida Polytechnic University
Florida Polytechnic University (FPU) strives to be nationally, and internationally, respected as a college that offers not only engineering and technological programs, but also interdisciplinary course programs within the STEM fields (STEM is an abbreviation that stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, and it will be discussed in further depth later in this article.) […]
Artificial Intelligence in the Cloud
Popular culture on Artificial Intelligence and the reality of how it is now beginning to be employed are often quite different, according to this article from CloudTech, “the future of AI isn’t about one giant super-intelligence. Instead, it’s about many small, dedicated agents that know you intimately and work on your behalf to improve your […]