Click to learn more about author Jay Sitapara. Microservices architecture transforms the software development process, practices, and results in many ways. Microservices were born because monolithic architecture proved to be outdated to meet the demand of modern applications. While microservices solve a lot of issues, the architecture brings a new set of problems with it too. […]
Supercharge your BI Platform with the Right Database
Click to learn more about author Mathias Golombek. In today’s ultra-competitive world, making the right decisions is no longer enough. You also need to make them faster. The key to success is intelligence with speed. A BI platform, such as MicroStrategy and others, sits at the center of this challenge for many businesses. With the sheer amount […]
Top Four Benefits of DRaaS in a Data-Driven World
Click to learn more about author Amanda Regnerus. Technology advances at an amazing rate. A decade ago, the thought of self-driving cars and everyone having an AI assistant in their pocket and home was reserved for Sci-Fi films. A recent study showed that currently 40% of the world’s population is connected to the internet, 90% […]
Forget the Turtles and Hares: How to Manage a Successful Digital Transformation Project
Click to learn more about author Leon Adato. Technical projects fail – but they don’t fail because of technology. They fail because of planning. The numbers vary on how many transformation efforts fail, but most experts agree it’s high. One estimate says it reaches 84%. Billions have gone up in smoke, despite all the flowcharts and […]
How to Effectively Achieve IT Resilience with Hybrid Cloud and Multi-cloud
Click to learn more about author Oussama El-Hilali As cloud services advance, service interruptions will hopefully not be as common as they are today. But we’re not there yet. Hiccups are still bound to happen, and companies can suffer a serious derailment of their operations if mission-critical applications stored in the cloud are disrupted. In […]
Data Modeling on the Other Side of the Quagmire
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. At the DATAVERSITY® Graphorum Conference in Chicago in October I attended Dave McComb’s tutorial on “Data-Centric: Models and Architectures”. At the end, he ran a raffle for his 2018 book, Software Wasteland – How the Application-Centric Mindset is Hobbling our Enterprises (TechnicsPub). I was the lucky winner! […]
Why GDPR Compliance Does Not Mean You’re Ready for CCPA
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is not GPDR. If you made sure your company complied with GDPR, the good news is you won’t have to start from scratch for CCPA. But they are very different laws with subtle (and some not so subtle) differences that […]
How to Increase Data Storage System Reliability
Click to learn more about author Grahame Morrison. An interesting conundrum has perplexed many IT and DevOps departments. When it comes to disk drives, what’s behind the gap in reliability when all of the drives come from only two disk manufacturers worldwide – and this pair’s products are very comparable to one another? There’s a […]
SD-WAN: Light at the End of the IoT Security Tunnel
Click to learn more about author Michelle Arney. The world is getting smaller every day and becoming more and more connected, thanks in large part to technology. Certainly, the Internet of Things (IoT) has played a major role in this transformation, and will continue to do so. Gartner predicts that next year the world will […]
Ten Steps to Enhance IoT Security
Click to learn more about author Kanika Vatsyayan. No matter where you go, there’s a talk going on about the internet of things (IoT) and the future of IoT testing. The reasons behind it are obvious – the advantages this technology offers. Well, securing the internet of things is a many-sided effort that demands both […]