You have a classic car. You’re in the middle of restoring it, and it looks mighty sweet. Paint is polished, wheels are stock, hubcaps (or spokes) are shiny, engine is completely restored to original spec. But it has no gas tank. A bit of a stark comparison, but that’s where we’re at with application release […]
Study: CIOs Want a Chief Data Officer
Quick, what does CDO stand for? Before you say chief digital officer, think again. A new study points to the chief data officer as the more important of the two titles, finding 82 percent of CIOs believe there is a compelling case to hire a CDO in most organizations. The survey, commissioned by Experian Data […]
4 Predictive Analytics Challenges Facing SRE Teams
“Predictive analytics” refers to the many techniques used to analyze data to make predictions about the future, such as data mining, statistics, modeling, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Being able to predict technical and business outcomes is one of the main promises of big data. Indeed, many businesses have invested heavily in infrastructure to anticipate […]
Gartner: Digital Business Driving Spending
With half the year gone, Gartner just revised its 2017 worldwide IT spending projection up 1 percent to 2.4 percent. That may not sound like a lot, but last year’s IT spending growth was effectively flat at 0.3 percent. It isn’t just the uptick in the overall spending level that’s interesting, it’s how Gartner predicts […]
Is DevOps Making Life Better for Data Scientists?
The path to success and happiness of the data science team working with big data project is not always clear from the beginning. It depends on the maturity of the underlying platform, their cross skills and DevOps processes around their day-to-day operations. The past few years have been like a dream come true for those […]
Backup: Not So Easy in Certain Environments
We discussed how backup needs to be reinvented for a new era cloud-native applications, and what you should look for in a modern database backup and recovery solution. But even if you scrap the traditional approach to back up and write scripts to handle the task, backup and recovery of next-generation applications and databases (Apache […]
Evolving Data Requirements in Multi-Cloud Environments
By design or by accident, multi-cloud is a reality that most enterprise IT teams have to cope with today. Multi-cloud (or, cross-cloud, as Dell EMC calls it) refers to an IT model where an organization uses services of one or more public cloud service providers, sometimes in addition to using its own data centers. In […]
Don’t Be Samsung: Here’s How You Can Protect Yourself
Imagine a factory building 100,000 units a day, and you can see how a small error can have huge consequences. Now imagine that factory is a database. The world’s top smartphone maker this month pulled the plug on its $882 Galaxy Note 7 after phones overheated and caught fire, concluding in a disastrous recall for […]
DataOps: Time to Bring DevOps Ideas to Big Data
What can data scientists learn from DevOps? A lot, actually. By applying DevOps principles to the world of big data, you get DataOps, which streamlines data analytics. If you’re reading this site, you’re probably already familiar with DevOps. The DevOps philosophy emphasizes continuous collaboration between software developers (the “dev” people) and system admins (the operations, […]
Backup and Recovery for Distributed Databases
Over the past five years, applications have undergone a paradigm shift. They now require more agility, scalability and availability. The key trends in this era are driven by the use of social platforms, mobile devices and software as a service (SaaS). Being able to ingest large amounts of data from various sources and process that data in […]
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