Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. What can data modelers learn from accountants? Accounting is a solidly established practice that the world cannot live without. One of the established guidelines for accountants is called GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in the US), and there are similar international setups. You might guess these standards […]
Here’s How IT Can Prepare for What’s Coming Next
Click to learn more about author Patrick Hubbard. In the sparkly, golden days before the new normal, many office workers probably considered “infrastructure” to be the buildings they worked in and their desks and computers. But in what seemed like the blink of an eye, workers learned infrastructure has become a complex digital amalgam — it’s […]
The “Actionable” Metadata
Click to learn more about author Anand Govindarajan. During the days of building data warehouses and BI systems, all that was captured, as truly “metadata,” was the data about creation/access of the data structures for audits, data about the execution of data loads, and so on. Primarily, whatever supported the “operations” of the data warehouse. […]
Data Science and Social Visibility: An Emerging Tech Revolution for 2020
Click to learn more about author Pratip Biswas. Costumes, trick-or-treating, “Fire burn and cauldron bubble,” the “Ghostbusters” movie — this year’s Halloween was eerie, as usual! While the origin of the day is rooted elsewhere, these days, it’s all about getting socially visualized! So, on this holiday, when you sipped your pumpkin latte or vampire […]
Traditional SAN and Virtual SAN (vSAN): What to Choose?
Click to learn more about author George Williams. Whether it’s time to deploy a platform for new projects, set up a CRM server, or build a data center suitable for an industry-standard hypervisor, there comes a time in every IT manager or storage administrator’s career when they’re confronted with this question: “Should I use a […]
Applying the NIEM Standard to the Opioid Epidemic, COVID-19, and Other Problems
Click to learn more about author Robert Reynolds. If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s the value of data. As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the U.S. earlier this year, most states were unprepared to deal with it. Those states that have “followed the data” have more successfully managed the epidemic’s toll on public health […]
On the Business Value of a Conceptual Data Policy Definition
Click to learn more about author Daniele Gianni. Concerns on the collection, use, and dissemination of data are central to many enterprises that directly deal with customer data to provide information services. These concerns originated from an increasing awareness of the value of privacy as well as recent government regulations, not only aiming to protect […]
The Future of Content Is Intelligent: But Is It Artificial?
Click to learn more about author Dave Davis. In 1980, Daniel J. Boorstin, a great scholar and historical polymath, held the office of Librarian of Congress. While serving in this capacity, Boorstin gave a speech entitled “Gresham’s Law: Knowledge or Information?” which was printed in a little booklet I still have and treasure. In economics, […]
Don’t Overlook RO/BO (And Now HO): Tips to Manage and Protect Data at the Edge
Click to learn more about author Shridar Subramanian. Change is normal — but the pace of change in recent times has been anything but normal. For IT professionals that have helped their organizations shift to new work-from-home and remote models, the speed of change has been nothing short of dizzying and disorientating. IT managers are […]
Data Quality Then and Now: What’s the Difference?
Click to learn more about author Emily Washington. Each year we undergo significant transformation in the information technology (IT) industry. However, 2020 is a year for the history books. Evolution in IT usually happens organically. As priorities change, so do technologies, processes, people, and techniques. When the term “big data” became mainstream last decade, IT […]