January 30, 2023

The IT industry loves seismic shifts in technology architectures. In the 1990s, there was object-oriented programming. Later, service-oriented architecture and enterprise service bus built on these principles, but packaged them in a new way, and more recently, the same has […]

January 27, 2023

Data Privacy Day is celebrated on January 28th each year in the United States, Canada, and 49 other countries in an international effort to raise awareness around data privacy. It is meant to commemorate the 1981 signing of Convention 108, […]

January 26, 2023

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. The year 2023 seems to be no different. Despite an estimated increase to […]

January 26, 2023

ThoughtWorks consultant Zhamak Dehghani created the concept of data mesh as a self-serve, domain-oriented design that later evolved into a data-as-a-product design. By integrating and analyzing data from disconnected systems all at once, the data mesh architecture benefits the organization […]

January 25, 2023

Many young developers today do not remember the time of the shedding and cold rocks, let alone the dotcom bomb (or its associated fansite). Before each of these collapses, the fat times felt like they would never end. But fat […]

January 25, 2023

CIOs are expected to successfully split their time between duties that can greatly vary day to day. Federal Reserve System CIO Ghada Ijam, for instance, says on a good day, 60% of her time is spent on strategic planning and […]

January 25, 2023

Over the past few years, enterprise data architectures have evolved significantly to accommodate the changing data requirements of modern businesses. The emergence of advanced data storage technologies, such as cloud computing, data hubs, and data lakes, makes us question the […]

January 24, 2023

As I mentioned a few times in this blog, I’ve been working with and teaching about artificial intelligence since the start of my career. This drove much of my interest in cloud computing because AI was not economically viable or […]

January 24, 2023

As we enter 2023, it is a good time to explore the biggest data analytics and BI trends for this new year. This article will look at the top 12 trends in data analytics and BI, which collectively guide the […]

January 23, 2023

The well-meaning advice to not carry a grudge certainly didn’t come from anyone who’s wrestled with a computer for a living. Toil for anytime with the infernal logic of a programming language and you’ll know the horrors of the inky […]

January 23, 2023

Federated learning is a machine learning technique that allows multiple parties to train a model without sharing their data. It is being used across several industries, from mobile device keyboards to health care to autonomous vehicles to oil rigs. It […]

January 23, 2023

All enterprise data ends up on storage systems, but if an enterprise storage solution does not have the cyber storage resilience to combat a cyberattack, the C-suite and the IT team are leaving the organization severely exposed. This realization is […]

January 20, 2023

Cloud repatriation may be a sensitive and polarizing topic for some, but it really should be just another architectural option. When I say that some workloads should return to the data center, I am not pushing back on cloud computing. […]

January 20, 2023

Business intelligence definition Business intelligence (BI) is a set of strategies and technologies enterprises use to analyze business information and transform it into actionable insights that inform strategic and tactical business decisions. BI tools access and analyze data sets and […]

January 20, 2023

Truly data-driven companies see significantly better business outcomes than those that aren’t. According to a recent IDC whitepaper, leaders saw on average two and a half times better results than other organizations in many business metrics. In particular, companies that […]

January 19, 2023

Neural networks and the human brain Neural networks are inspired by the human brain structure, the basic idea being that a group of objects called neurons are combined into a network. Each neuron receives one or more inputs and a […]

January 19, 2023

Against a backdrop of economic uncertainty, the way we approach marketing and customer experience (CX) is even more important to customer loyalty. We take these important lessons from the recent holiday season and apply them for the next one. Put […]

January 19, 2023

The new year is chock-full of exciting possibilities for data and its workers, though also with ongoing challenges as the needs of data continue to evolve. As data advances, so too must data engineering teams in order to keep up […]

January 18, 2023

AI goes ROI: The slowdown in tech spending will show up in AI and machine learning in two ways: major new AI methodologies and breakthroughs will slow down, while innovation in AI moves toward “productization.” We’ll see AI get faster […]

January 18, 2023

Businesses rely on knowing their data to survive and grow. Metadata management and master data management (MDM) provide essential processes for organizations to gain this knowledge and succeed. As a result, both need to be managed well. However, the differences […]