Data management strategies
Data is a corporate asset that helps make more-informed business decisions, improve marketing campaigns, optimize business operations and reduce costs. Learn data management strategies to ensure IT systems run business applications and provide analytical information that drives decision-making and strategic planning by corporate executives, business managers and end users.
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20 Dec 2024
Platform teams draw on DataOps, MLOps to support GenAI
GenAI calls for more rigorous data discipline than previous forms of analytics, but there are lessons platform teams can learn from existing approaches. Continue Reading
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19 Dec 2024
Boomi's Rivery acquisition aimed at AI, real-time analysis
With the purchase, the data integration specialist adds change data capture capabilities for AI and real-time analytics. Continue Reading
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Definition
21 Dec 2022
data observability
Data observability is a process and set of practices that aim to help data teams understand the overall health of the data in their organization's IT systems. Continue Reading
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21 Dec 2022
ThoughtSpot, DBT partner to join BI and data modeling
The analytics vendor and open source tool have already developed integrations that combine self-service BI and semantic modeling, and now plan to fine-tune their functionality. Continue Reading
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21 Dec 2022
Ascend.io tool offers free data ingestion for Snowflake users
Free Ingest encourages the vendor's customers to use its data import tools, rather than a third party's, to reduce the complexity and improve the security of data management. Continue Reading
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Tip
20 Dec 2022
Use magnetic tape backup to ease storage capacity concerns
Does your organization struggle to store and protect all its data? Magnetic tape storage might be a smart, cost-efficient route, as data volumes continue to increase. Continue Reading
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20 Dec 2022
Data forecast for 2023: Time to extract more value
Expect more organizations to optimize data usage to drive decision intelligence and operations in 2023, as the new year will be one of economic challenges for many. Continue Reading
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16 Dec 2022
Learn different data lake vs. data warehouse uses
Data lakes and data warehouses both store big data. When choosing a lake or warehouse, consider factors such as cost and what insights or analytics you need to gain from the data. Continue Reading
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15 Dec 2022
What key roles should a data management team include?
These 10 roles, with different responsibilities, are commonly a part of the data management teams that organizations rely on to make sure their data is ready to use. Continue Reading
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15 Dec 2022
8 data integration challenges and how to overcome them
These eight challenges complicate efforts to integrate data for operational and analytics uses. Here's why, plus advice on how to deal with them. Continue Reading
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15 Dec 2022
Apache Cassandra 4.1 extends open source NoSQL database
The open source Cassandra database is out with its first major update in 18 months, bringing with it an improved consensus protocol to boost transaction performance. Continue Reading
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13 Dec 2022
Aiven launches managed ClickHouse database as a service
The open source database cloud services vendor continues to expand the number of technologies it supports, adding new analytics capabilities in a managed offering. Continue Reading
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13 Dec 2022
SingleStoreDB 8.0 brings WebAssembly to unified database
The database vendor updates its hybrid transactional and analytical database with new JSON data query acceleration technology and developer support for WebAssembly. Continue Reading
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12 Dec 2022
Data tenancy maturity model boosts performance and security
A data tenancy maturity model can boost an organization's data operations and help improve the protection of customer data. Improvement is tracked through tiers of data tenancy. Continue Reading
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09 Dec 2022
The differences between a data warehouse vs. data mart
Data marts and data warehouses both play key roles in the BI and analytics process. Here's how they differ and how they can be used to help drive business decisions. Continue Reading
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08 Dec 2022
CockroachDB brings user-defined functions to distributed SQL
User-defined functions land in Cockroach Labs' new database update aiming to improve application development. The release also adds Intelligent Insights for performance monitoring. Continue Reading
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08 Dec 2022
Disney improves data integration efficiency with AWS Glue
During the pandemic, Disney revamped its data integration process after the media and entertainment giant's existing data integration tools proved unable to meet its new needs. Continue Reading
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05 Dec 2022
What is a data warehouse analyst?
Data warehouse analysts help organizations manage the repositories of analytics data and use them effectively. Here's a look at the role and its responsibilities. Continue Reading
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05 Dec 2022
Evaluating data warehouse deployment options and use cases
There's still a place for data warehouses in data architectures. But first, ask whether your organization needs one and what type of technology platform is the best fit. Continue Reading
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02 Dec 2022
EDB brings new tools to open source PostgreSQL database
The database vendor released new extensions designed to help PostgreSQL users with best practices for storage, user access and performance optimizations for database operations. Continue Reading
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01 Dec 2022
Data observability benefits entire data pipeline performance
Data observability benefits include improving data quality and identifying issues in the pipeline process, but also has challenges organizations must solve for success. Continue Reading
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01 Dec 2022
Unstructured data not exempt from compliance requirements
Concerned about regulatory compliance? Data protection teams must be familiar with all regional and industry regulations to back up unstructured data in a compliant manner. Continue Reading
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30 Nov 2022
AWS adds data quality, scalability services for cloud data
The cloud giant expanded its data portfolio with a series of features designed to help organizations more easily scale database and data warehouse deployments. Continue Reading
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29 Nov 2022
AWS expands cloud data options with Amazon DataZone
The cloud computing giant at its AWS re:Invent 2022 conference introduced a series of new capabilities to help organizations better integrate and manage data across services. Continue Reading
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29 Nov 2022
Starburst adds features to further data mesh approach
The data and analytics vendor advanced its SaaS platform with data discoverability and governance features and its enterprise platform with support for AWS Lake Formation. Continue Reading
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28 Nov 2022
Alation Connected Sheets extends data intelligence platform
The data intelligence vendor's Connected Sheets lets spreadsheet users directly pull in data sets from a data catalog to improve data governance and visibility. Continue Reading
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28 Nov 2022
5 steps to an improved data quality assurance plan
Follow these steps to develop a data quality assurance plan and management strategy that can help identify data errors before they cause big business problems. Continue Reading
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23 Nov 2022
How Fauna looks to advance serverless database technology
The CEO of the serverless database vendor is overseeing his firm's drive to build out a developer-focused database as an API to let organizations deploy applications faster. Continue Reading
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23 Nov 2022
7 expert recommended data observability tools
Commercial data observability tools can offer organizations pre-built components and plenty of vendor support for data use cases including monitoring, security and decision-making. Continue Reading
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18 Nov 2022
6 data observability open source tools to consider
Learn about six data observability open source options helping organizations pursue data science experiments that are more budget-friendly and flexible than commercial tools. Continue Reading
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17 Nov 2022
Alluxio 2.9 scales out open source data orchestration
Multi-environment cluster synchronization lands in Alluxio platform to give organizations a single view of data across multiple deployments, wherever they are located. Continue Reading
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16 Nov 2022
Microsoft SQL Server 2022 bridges on-premises to cloud
Enabling hybrid deployments that span the cloud and on-premises is the key goal for Microsoft's latest update of its 33-year-old relational database. Continue Reading
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16 Nov 2022
PlanetScale boosts cloud database with data caching
The database vendor will enable users to speed up queries that are running slowly with its new Boost service, which uses insights about query performance. Continue Reading
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15 Nov 2022
Redpanda updates event data streaming cloud platform
The event data streaming vendor rebuilt its cloud system using technology acquired in April, providing a new user console and interface to let organizations use real-time data. Continue Reading
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15 Nov 2022
MotherDuck raises $47.5M for open source DuckDB database
The database startup received new funding to build out a hybrid cloud platform that will let organizations run DuckDB both in the cloud and on premises. Continue Reading
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10 Nov 2022
Speedb data engine brings key value store to open source
The startup looks to provide a competitive alternative to RocksDB by building out its data technology and community of developers with a move to an open source methodology. Continue Reading
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Definition
09 Nov 2022
historical data
Historical data, in a broad context, is data collected about past events and circumstances pertaining to a particular subject. Continue Reading
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09 Nov 2022
Neo4j 5 accelerates graph database queries
The cypher query language got a big boost in the Neo4j 5 database update, letting users execute more complex queries faster than with earlier releases. Continue Reading
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07 Nov 2022
Snowflake data cloud adds Python, multi-cloud collaboration
The cloud data vendor released preview updates to its platform to accelerate data queries, better support multi-cloud operations and boost developer productivity. Continue Reading
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07 Nov 2022
EdgeDB raises $15M for open source graph-relational database
The startup vendor of open source database technology raised new money to help build out a platform that aims to relieve the object-relational impedance mismatch. Continue Reading
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03 Nov 2022
Momento accelerates databases with serverless data caching
The startup has built a new platform that lets organizations more easily scale and accelerate database queries in the cloud without adding more infrastructure. Continue Reading
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03 Nov 2022
Aerospike Cloud advances real-time database service
The database vendor has steadily advanced its core database technology in 2022 with JSON and Trino support and is now building out a new database-as-a-service platform. Continue Reading
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02 Nov 2022
Alation set to advance data intelligence with new $123M
The data intelligence vendor, which aims to help enterprises organize data with data catalog technology, sees fundraising success and market demand for its platform. Continue Reading
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01 Nov 2022
Equalum CDC Connect embeds change data capture and streaming
The CDC technology vendor expanded the reach of its real-time data integration platform that provides event data streaming to keep data moving to where it's needed. Continue Reading
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31 Oct 2022
The ins and outs of unstructured data protection
Protecting unstructured data requires a few extra considerations for backup admins. Growing storage capacity requirements and regulatory compliance are critical. Continue Reading
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27 Oct 2022
Cinchy raises $14.5M to expand dataware data management
The startup's technology aims to help enterprises liberate data from applications where it can be locked so that users can more easily get at data from multiple locations. Continue Reading
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26 Oct 2022
InfluxDB Cloud overhauls time series database engine
InfluxData updated its InfluxDB Cloud database service with a new engine, new storage and real-time data capabilities, and expanded support for SQL queries. Continue Reading
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26 Oct 2022
4 data quality challenges that hinder data operations
Data quality challenges pose a threat to organizations' decision-making. Inaccurate, inconsistent, missing and duplicate data poses threats to cultivating trustworthy data sets. Continue Reading
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26 Oct 2022
Serverless PostgreSQL platform Bit.io goes GA, raises $7.5M
PostgreSQL database-as-a-service vendor launches a cloud service that integrates features designed to accelerate data migration from different sources. Continue Reading
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19 Oct 2022
RisingWave Labs raises $36M for stream processing database
Open source-based streaming database vendor looks to expand into the cloud with a database-as-a-service platform written in the Rust programming language. Continue Reading
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19 Oct 2022
TigerGraph unveils support for query language openCypher
The graph database vendor moves to support openCypher to attract customers unfamiliar with its GSQL query language while the industry works to develop a standard query language. Continue Reading
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18 Oct 2022
Oracle Database 23c brings JSON, graph to relational database
The tech giant previewed the next major milestone for its namesake database at the CloudWorld conference, providing users with features to better work with different data models. Continue Reading
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18 Oct 2022
Oracle extends MySQL HeatWave database to the data lakehouse
The Oracle MySQL HeatWave service provides both transactional and analytics processing capabilities and now also lets users tap into data lake storage for queries. Continue Reading
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13 Oct 2022
How to reap the benefits of data integration, step by step
A new book lays out a strong case for data integration and guides readers in how to carry out this essential process. Continue Reading
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13 Oct 2022
PostgreSQL 15 advances open source relational database
The new release of the widely deployed and supported PostgreSQL platform integrates enhanced logging, data compression, SQL and data replication capabilities. Continue Reading
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13 Oct 2022
Marketing agency uses Looker to build data platform, grow
When overhauling its analytics operations, a digital marketing agency turned to analytics vendor Looker's tools to build data marts and enable self-service exploration and analysis. Continue Reading
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06 Oct 2022
ArangoDB expands scope of graph database platform
The database vendor extended its namesake database platform to support machine learning applications with its revamped ArangoGraph Insights Platform cloud database service. Continue Reading
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Opinion
05 Oct 2022
Big Data London focuses on future of data-driven strategies
At Big Data London, data quality and intelligence took center stage as companies strive for fast and efficient delivery of quality information -- and the vendors to make it happen. Continue Reading
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04 Oct 2022
Confluent brings designer and governance to streaming data
The streaming data platform vendor added a stream designer and new governance capabilities to its cloud service for organizations working with real-time data coming from Kafka. Continue Reading
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04 Oct 2022
Accounting giant boosts efficiency with Alteryx automation
Two years after starting a pilot program with the data and analytics vendor, the accounting firm has saved more than 100,000 work hours by automating repetitive tasks. Continue Reading
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04 Oct 2022
How to overcome the top 5 DataOps challenges
DataOps is a new tool for effective data use and improved data-driven decision-making. Organizations should prepare for these five DataOps challenges and learn how to overcome them. Continue Reading
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04 Oct 2022
How to design a data architecture for business success
To gain business value from data, enterprises need to get their data architecture right – and the right business leadership and culture is critical to that Continue Reading
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Definition
30 Sep 2022
table
A table in computer programming is a data structure used to organize information, just as it is on paper. Continue Reading
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29 Sep 2022
The future of DataOps trends in 2023 and beyond
DataOps is a growing tool for organizations looking to efficiently distribute accurate data to users. Learn the DataOps trends teams must understand as it evolves. Continue Reading
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26 Sep 2022
Starburst adds tools to enhance its data mesh capabilities
The vendor added data product and data set sharing features along with enhanced governance capabilities aimed at enabling organizations to decentralize their analytics operations. Continue Reading
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26 Sep 2022
Where does security fit into a business continuity plan?
Cybersecurity breaches are a prominent threat to business continuity today. Make sure your security and BCDR teams are in sync to recover data in a crisis. Continue Reading
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23 Sep 2022
How to build an effective DataOps team
More organizations are turning to DataOps to bolster their data management operations. Learn how to build a team with the right people to ensure DataOps success. Continue Reading
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23 Sep 2022
How Lufthansa is flying its data warehouse to the cloud
Moving from an on-premises data system to the cloud can be a complex operation. Lufthansa is looking to remove some of the complexity with virtualization. Continue Reading
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21 Sep 2022
CockroachDB serverless database debuts with migration tools
After a year in preview, the database vendor is making its serverless offering generally available. It provides a new production-ready database for distributed SQL. Continue Reading
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20 Sep 2022
Imply advances Apache Druid real-time analytics database
The database vendor is continuing its effort to evolve the Apache Druid database, developing new capabilities to help users more easily load and transform data. Continue Reading
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15 Sep 2022
Google eases cloud database migration, improves Datastream
Google wants to make migrating to its new AlloyDB database easier for its users as well as provide new support for database migration from PostgreSQL. Continue Reading
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13 Sep 2022
Oracle brings MySQL Heatwave cloud database service to AWS
The tech giant launched a new MySQL cloud database service running on AWS infrastructure that will support both analytical and transactional database workloads. Continue Reading
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09 Sep 2022
Kafka co-creator details event data streaming evolution
The open source Apache Kafka streaming technology and commercial vendor Confluent have grown over the last decade as organizations increasingly have turned to real-time data. Continue Reading
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09 Sep 2022
7 data quality best practices to improve data performance
Data quality is essential to operate a successful data pipeline and enable data-driven decision-making. These seven data quality best practices can help improve performance. Continue Reading
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Definition
08 Sep 2022
data integrity
Data integrity is the assurance that digital information is uncorrupted and can only be accessed or modified by those authorized to do so. Continue Reading
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01 Sep 2022
5 paperless office software tools to consider
With seemingly endless options to choose from, picking the right paperless office software tool starts with understanding what options are available. Continue Reading
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31 Aug 2022
Meta and partners build Velox open source execution engine
The Facebook parent company, along with multiple contributors, including Ahana, Voltron Data and Intel, are developing a new open source technology to make data processing faster. Continue Reading
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30 Aug 2022
Alation adds Snowflake service, updates data catalog
The vendor launched the Alation Cloud Service for Snowflake designed to enable Snowflake users to more easily use Alation's data intelligence capabilities. Continue Reading
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30 Aug 2022
StarTree raises $47M for Apache Pinot-based analytics database
The vendor raised new money to continue to grow its database technology as the applications for analytics databases have expanded in recent years with more real-time data needs. Continue Reading
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24 Aug 2022
Zilliz raises $60M for open source Milvus vector database
The leading commercial backer behind the open source Milvus database project is looking to advance the technology to build out a database for AI application workloads. Continue Reading
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23 Aug 2022
InfluxData eases event streaming data collection
The new Native Collectors service in the cloud is an attempt by the time series database vendor to let users connect to message broker services and event streaming data. Continue Reading
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19 Aug 2022
PlanetScale reaches to the edge with serverless driver
The vendor continues to build out its database-as-a-service platform and is now aiming to make it easier for developers to connect to edge services. Continue Reading
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19 Aug 2022
Why you need to consider using small data to train AI models
A smaller data set makes sense for certain applications, such as intelligent document processing. It is not helpful in cases in which a large volume is needed to avoid mistakes. Continue Reading
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18 Aug 2022
MariaDB set to expand geospatial database capabilities
With the purchase of CubeWerx, the database vendor will add geospatial capabilities to its SkySQL database service that will enable satellite imagery analysis in applications. Continue Reading
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17 Aug 2022
Arcion data pipeline updates for schema evolution
The vendor added new database support to its change data capture platform including for BigQuery and Imply, as well as features for schema update and data column transformations. Continue Reading
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17 Aug 2022
Cloudera users get fully managed data lakehouse platform
The vendor is expanding its set of offerings with the launch of CDP One, a service initially available only on AWS that enables serverless deployment in the cloud. Continue Reading
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Opinion
15 Aug 2022
The modern data platform drives data-centric organizations
IT leads the modern data platform, functioning as the conduit, efficiently delivering the correct data to the right users, to empower data-driven decision-making in organizations. Continue Reading
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12 Aug 2022
Free tool from Collibra tests data maturity against peers
The assessment tool is free to anyone and is designed to help organizations better understand the evolution of their data and analytics systems relative to others. Continue Reading
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11 Aug 2022
GridGain, Apache Ignite founder talks in-memory databases
Nikita Ivanov details the origin of his company and discusses the growing need organizations have for real-time database processing capabilities to complete modern transactions. Continue Reading
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Definition
11 Aug 2022
soft copy
A soft copy (sometimes spelled 'softcopy') is an electronic copy (or e-copy) of some type of data, such as a file viewed on a computer's display or transmitted as an email attachment. Continue Reading
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09 Aug 2022
A look at Presto, Trino SQL query engines
The co-creator of the open source project at Facebook reflects on 10 years of growth as he helps lead one of its resulting tools into the future. Continue Reading
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Definition
09 Aug 2022
x and y coordinates
X and y coordinates are, respectively, the horizontal and vertical addresses of a point in any two-dimensional (2D) space, such as a sheet of paper or a computer display screen. Continue Reading
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Definition
08 Aug 2022
data catalog
A data catalog is a software application that creates an inventory of an organization's data assets to help data professionals and business users find relevant data for analytics uses. Continue Reading
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05 Aug 2022
Hazelcast CEO looks to grow real-time data platform
The CEO of the data streaming vendor discusses the direction Hazelcast is heading in as it launches a serverless platform for real-time processing of streaming and contextual data. Continue Reading
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Definition
04 Aug 2022
data governance policy
A data governance policy is a documented set of guidelines for ensuring that an organization's data and information assets are managed consistently and used properly. Continue Reading
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Tip
29 Jul 2022
Create a better endpoint backup strategy for remote work
An endpoint backup strategy must protect data for remote employees working on a variety of devices without IT oversight. Incremental and immutable backups are key. Continue Reading
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28 Jul 2022
What is data lineage? Techniques, best practices and tools
Organizations can bolster data governance efforts by tracking the lineage of data in their systems. Get advice on how to do so and how data lineage tools can help. Continue Reading
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28 Jul 2022
How to build a successful paperless office strategy
Shifting an organization to be a paperless office starts with finding the right tools to digitize content and establishing the strategy and processes that promote staff buy-in. Continue Reading
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28 Jul 2022
Tips to plan storage elements of artificial intelligence
Author and data engineer Chinmay Arankalle explores how organizations can manage storage for AI. Management and storage options include data lakes and high-performance storage. Continue Reading
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28 Jul 2022
Truist chief data officer on data management challenges
The CDO of bank holding company Truist outlines what she sees as an optimal data management culture as the demand for data skills continues to grow. Continue Reading
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22 Jul 2022
Apache Beam users detail stream data processing applications
At a Beam conference, users detail how they're using the open source data processing technology at large scale in support of a growing number of data pipelines. Continue Reading
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20 Jul 2022
4 real-world examples of zero-party data
With zero-party data directly from consumers, marketing teams get better data to help retain customers and improve CX. These real-world examples highlight how this data works. Continue Reading