Click to learn more about author Patrick Hubbard. 5G is increasingly touted as a panacea to solve all connectivity issues (apparently everywhere) and resolve existing bandwidth and latency issues. It’s being sold as a technology stack protocol—included in multiple hardware solutions—and now that it’s here, the world will shortly reverberate in millimeter-wave harmony. Well, not quite. […]
Pulling the Plug on Legacy Technology: What You Need to Know
Click to learn more about author Leon Adato. Being careful and steady can carry IT professionals through a number of rough spots, but eventually, even the best technology gets old and jammed up with digital duct tape—patches, workarounds, and inefficiencies. When is it time to take that legacy jalopy out for a final ride? This is […]
Evolution, Not Revolution: Tips for Transitioning to a Federated Database System
Click to learn more about author Richard Mohrmann. As enterprises scale, they develop data inefficiencies. Sometimes these inefficiencies arise internally, between departments or branches, while others emerge as the parent company acquires smaller companies, each with their own databases and IT departments. In either case, communication issues ensue as siloed databases and IT redundancies begin […]
Build a Culture of Trust to Tackle Data Privacy
Click to learn more about author Robert Brown. The raging debate over privacy has only gotten bigger in the wake of GDPR. Trust is now a competitive factor. How do businesses earn it? How do they keep data open, free and protected? The manifold issues stirred up by Data Privacy, related legislation, and the risks […]