Enterprises all around the world are relying on analytics to provide the insights they need to streamline operations and delight their customers. However, making the right data available to the right people at the right time is becoming more and more challenging. While the ability to perform analytics on huge volumes of data is beefing up […]
Fundamentals of Data Access Management
Across all industries, and in businesses of all sizes, one thing holds true: The more you know about your customers, the greater your organization’s chances for success. This makes data your company’s most valuable non-human asset. As the revenue potential of data increases, the job of protecting that data becomes more important and more challenging. […]
4 Benefits of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and How to Implement It
Data has become the new gold, and ensuring its security has never been more paramount. As cyber threats evolve, so must our defenses. Enter role-based access control (RBAC), a solution that promises to revolutionize how we think about data access and security. Understanding RBAC RBAC, or role-based access control, is a method of managing access […]
To Share or Not to Share: 3 Keys to Faster and Safer Data Delivery
Data represents the lifeblood of any organization, whether gathered and analyzed for boosting sales, developing new marketing strategies, improving customer satisfaction, or long-range strategic planning. Key decision-makers would be lost without it. Despite the crucial role that data plays across the entire enterprise, the issue of who gets access to information while also keeping it […]
What Is a Data Governance Framework?
A Data Governance framework refers to the collection of rules, processes, roles, and tools organizations can use to achieve successful Data Governance. Implemented correctly, Data Governance directly correlates to an organization’s ability to manage its data while maintaining compliance standards and accessibility within the enterprise. With the vast amount of data generated each day, businesses must ensure […]
What Is Cloud Computing?
Cloud computing provides computation, software, data access, and storage systems without requiring knowledge of the physical location and configuration needed. Cloud computing may be executed on or off premises, and has adopted virtualization, service-oriented architecture, and utility computing. Databases in the cloud may be implemented by: Virtual Machine Image: Users purchase virtual machine instances with […]
What Is Data Preparation?
Data preparation describes the process of getting data ready for use in analytics. In the past, data preparation was a time-consuming task handled by the IT team, involving “data extraction, transformation and loading (ETL), access to data warehouses and data marts, and lots of complicated massaging and manipulation of data across other data sources,” says […]
Organizations Must Consider Cost and Security Before Moving to the Public Cloud
Click to learn more about author Jon Toor. About three to five years ago, organizations tended to view the public cloud as something of a panacea — an easy solution to the challenges associated with managing their data on-premises themselves. Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has bolstered this attitude for many enterprises, with some CIOs convinced […]
FileCloud Offers Remote Workers Secure Access to On-Premises Data
According to a new press release, “With millions working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations have uncovered an expected problem: many of their employees don’t have access to critical files stored in on-premises servers and storage applications. The virtual private networks (VPNs) that organizations often rely on to manage access to critical files are […]
Alluxio Joins Linux Foundation’s Presto Foundation to Help Scale Presto Query Engine
A new press release reports, “Alluxio, the developer of open source cloud data orchestration software, today announced it has joined Linux Foundation’s Presto Foundation. Along with members such as Facebook, Uber, Twitter and Alibaba, together we help scale and accelerate the popular distributed SQL query engine Presto… ‘With more companies using Presto Alluxio Stack (PAS) […]