Tag: data

September 20, 2023

CIOs are under increasing pressure to deliver more digital innovations faster and more efficiently. Business leaders expect IT to develop new products, improve customer experiences, automate workflows, and deliver new artificial intelligence capabilities. To do so, CIOs must continuously improve […]

September 20, 2023

The role of the CIO (Chief Information Officer) and CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) have become increasingly important in recent years as organizations place more emphasis on digital transformation and information security. While both positions are crucial in their own […]

September 20, 2023

As data environments continue to grow in complexity, the ways to govern and secure that data do as well. Cyberthreats evolve just as rapidly as technology does, requiring innovators to stay ahead of the next attack while ensuring data is […]

September 20, 2023

Many CIOs are wringing their hands over generative AI. No, the apocalyptic visions of the groundbreaking new technology replacing us – even destroying us – aren’t keeping them up at night. Rather, they’re worried about how best to arm their […]

September 19, 2023

Graph databases play a key role in fraud detection within intricate, complex networks, helping security teams keep pace with modern fraud techniques that are becoming increasingly more sophisticated. Graph databases can identify patterns and relationships in big data, reducing the […]

September 18, 2023

To get the most from generative AI (GenAI) tools like GitHub Copilot or ChatGPT, Datasette founder Simon Willison argues you have to be prepared to accept four conflicting opinions. Namely, that AI is neither our salvation nor our doom, neither […]

September 18, 2023

Maggie Chavarin is no stranger to reinventing her career. She joined Synchrony more than a decade ago in a Merchants Services role that allowed her to be a work-from-home mom. When the timing was right, Chavarin honed her skills to […]

September 18, 2023

The complexity of today’s data environment is an undeniable crossroads that enterprises leveraging legacy systems must face. As data continues to proliferate—both in sheer quantity and source type—legacy systems prove inadequate, especially when it comes to data quality, control, and […]

September 18, 2023

As some of you already know, I am dedicating these summer days to the writing of my new book, “99 Questions About Data Management,” which follows in some way the book “20 Things You Have to Know About Data Management.” […]

September 18, 2023

AI-based business models and products that use generative AI (GenAI) are proliferating across a wide range of industries. The current wave of AI is creating new ways of working, and research suggests that business leaders feel optimistic about the potential […]

September 14, 2023

It seems that every event I moderate, regardless of the topic, will devolve into a discussion of generative AI and the excitement of intelligent systems. The enthusiasm for this innovative technology is irrepressible. Ideas fly around, grandiose plans are discussed, […]

September 14, 2023

Today, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group shared the release of PostgreSQL 16. With this latest update, Postgres sets new standards for database management, data replication, system monitoring, and performance optimization, marking a significant milestone for the community, developers, and EDB […]

September 14, 2023

Microsoft’s shift to open development models is an interesting case study in how to manage open source development at scale. With millions of users and thousands of potential contributors, the company’s project maintainers have problems that most open source projects […]

September 14, 2023

A database administrator, also known as a DBA, is responsible for gathering, storing, organizing, and processing data. This job is routinely ranked as one of the 10 best technology jobs in the world. DBAs frequently work with other data analysts, […]

September 13, 2023

Years into digital transformation, and decades into the IT function itself, many CIOs still fall short when it comes to innovation. Tech debt, budget constraints, and overloaded staff schedules are among the top reasons IT leaders cite for scuttled innovation […]

September 13, 2023

As the world slowly transitions to a post-covid landscape, organizations are looking at what the “new normal” is shaping up to be. AI technologies gained immediate traction earlier this year and continue to fascinate businesses considering how and when to […]

September 12, 2023

As I reflect on the biggest technology innovations during my career―the Internet, smartphones, social media―a new breakthrough deserves a spot on that list. Generative AI has taken the world seemingly by storm, impacting everything from software development, to marketing, to […]

September 12, 2023

The concept of observability traces back to the 1960s, with Rudolf E. Kalman’s canonical work around decomposing complex systems for human understanding. It was a heady time for new compute systems in aerospace and navigation. The advances in these systems […]

September 11, 2023

Data wrangling, dataops, data prep, data integration—whatever your organization calls it, managing the operations to integrate and cleanse data is labor intensive. Many businesses struggle to integrate new data sets efficiently, improve data quality, centralize master data records, and create […]

September 11, 2023

Organizations have become highly data-centric in the past years, increasing complications and costs as the volume of data rose. However, data integrity issues alone cost organizations $12.9 million annually, on average, according to Gartner. Because of this, data professionals have […]