Data Architecture principles are a set of policies that govern the enterprise data framework with its operating rules for collecting, integrating, using, and managing data assets. The basic purpose of the Data Architecture principles is to keep the supportive data framework clean, consistent, and auditable. The overall enterprise Data Strategy is built around these principles. […]
What Is Data Integration?
Data integration refers to actions taken in creating consistent, quality, and usable data from one or more diverse data sets. As technologies become more complex and change over time, data variety and volume grow exponentially and the speed of data transfer becomes ever shorter. Data integration has and will continue to become more critical to […]
Cloud Data Warehouse vs. Cloud Data Lake: Overall Resource Efficiency and Productivity
Click here to learn more about Jason Nadeau. Since the COVID-19 crisis began, IT budgets have become tighter, driving technology leaders to figure out ways to do more with less. Data-driven enterprises cannot simply afford to sunset data modernization or data analytics projects. In times like this, several industry verticals (insurance, financial services, and healthcare) […]
It’s Time to Admit It: Backup is Your Job
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. Salesforce finally made it official: Backup is the customer’s responsibility. To be clear, it always was the customer’s responsibility, but Salesforce used to provide a safety net that some used as an excuse not to back up their Salesforce account. As of July 31, 2020, that […]
Disaster Recovery Lessons from Tiger King: Why the 3-2-1 Rule Rules
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. You had to have been living under a rock to have not heard of Tiger King, Netflix’s latest true crime documentary. Watched by more than 34 million people in its first ten days, it’s the story of the self-proclaimed “Tiger King,” Joe Exotic. Spoiler alert: Don’t […]
Trusting Data Delivery: What to Look for in a Data Validation Solution for Replication
Click here to learn more about Joe deBuzna. Many of us have experienced moving to a new home or city. And in any moving process, it’s common to end up with missing valuables or broken items that leave you wondering if you should have packed better, picked a different moving company, or just thought through […]
Autonomous Vehicles Will Be Driven by a New Approach for Computational Storage
Click to learn more about author Scott Shadley. While the development of autonomous vehicles (AVs) has been impacted by some PR problems and regulatory challenges over the past couple of years, the technology itself has continued to advance swiftly. As is often the case with any hot new category of tech, prognosticators overestimated how quickly […]
Cloud Data Warehouses Turn Out to Be a Big Data Detour
Click here to learn more about Jason Nadeau. Cloud data lakes are evolving rapidly. The innovative and deeply cost-effective data lake approaches to data storage, processing, and consumption that we have available today are something that not many could have envisioned just a few years ago. Enterprises now have the opportunity to leverage all sorts […]
Backup is a Solid Foundation of Data Management
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. I find myself preparing for World Backup Day at a time that companies around the world are still reeling from the effects of the coronavirus. IT professionals from China to Italy and everywhere in between are having to adapt to our new normal. It seemed impossible […]
How to Crush Database Workloads by Combining Transactions and Analytics on the Same Platform
Click to learn more about author Neil McGovern. The rise of Big Data over the past decade has made businesses think more critically about their analytics strategies, and about how they use the exponentially growing amount of data available to them to drive positive business outcomes. Now that these modern organizations understand the business value […]