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Basic Querying, BI Categories

Tips to improve IT sustainability

March 18, 2024

Via: Computer Weekly

Extreme weather events and warnings from experts that keeping temperature rises below the 1.5°C limit is becoming increasingly difficult have raised public awareness of the impact of global warming. Businesses and consumers alike are thinking more about climate change, the […]


BI Categories, Data Mining

Evaluating databases for sensor data

March 18, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

The world has become “sensor-fied.” Sensors on everything, including cars, factory machinery, turbine engines, and spacecraft, continuously collect data that developers leverage to optimize efficiency and power AI systems. So, it’s no surprise that time series—the type of data these […]


Basic Querying, BI Categories

What Is a Data Dictionary?

March 13, 2024

Via: DATAVERSITY

A data dictionary describes data in business terms, including information about the data. It includes elements like data types, structure details, and security restrictions. Unlike business glossaries, which focus on data across the organization, data dictionaries support data architectures – […]


BI Categories, Data Mining

10 Advantages of Real-Time Data Streaming in Commerce

March 12, 2024

Via: DATAVERSITY

While early science fiction shows like “Buck Rogers” (1939) and “The Fly” (1950) depicted teleportation technology, it was Star Trek’s transporter room that made real-time living matter transfer a classical sci-fi trope. While we haven’t built technology that enables real-time […]


BI Categories, Data Mining

Data Integration Tools

March 12, 2024

Via: DATAVERSITY

Data integration tools are used to collect data from external (and internal) sources, and to reformat, cleanse, and organize the collected data. The ultimate goal of data integration tools is to combine data from a variety of different sources, and […]


Software & Systems

Cautiously optimistic: Generative AI in the enterprise

March 11, 2024

Via: Computer Weekly

Businesses continue to invest in data analytics, despite a growing emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI). Business intelligence and data analytics projects continue to offer the prospect of more efficient and effective operations in both the commercial and public service sectors, […]


BI Security

Ransomware increases urgency of documented DR plans

March 11, 2024

Via: Network World

The existence of backup copies or replicas isn’t enough if you don’t understand how to efficiently restore data and systems at scale. Ransomware has moved disaster recovery planning from the back room to the front table. It’s understandable to think […]


BI Security

Going passwordless with passkeys in Windows and .NET

March 7, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Passwords are a problem. While they remain the main way we secure applications, services, and systems, they’re increasingly vulnerable. Cloud compute makes it economical to brute-force valuable passwords, while poorly-thought-out password policies drive users to inherently risky behaviors. And while […]


BI Users, Data Analyst

How to Become a Data Engineer

March 6, 2024

Via: DATAVERSITY

The work of data engineers is extremely technical. They are responsible for designing and maintaining the architecture of data systems, which incorporates concepts ranging from analytic infrastructures to data warehouses. A data engineer needs to have a solid understanding of […]


Software & Systems

How to manage generative AI

March 5, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Generative AI is estimated to add between $2.6 trillion to $4.4 trillion in economic benefits to the global economy annually, according to McKinsey. This forecast is based on 63 new use cases that could deliver improvements, efficiencies, and new products […]


Software & Systems

Generative AI copilots: What’s hype and where to drive results

March 5, 2024

Via: CIO

GitHub first launched its copilot in 2021, and Microsoft 365 Copilot became generally available a few months ago. These AI assistants often use the term copilot to indicate how generative AI capabilities embedded in workflow tools can augment and assist […]


BI Security

The future of European cybersecurity is autonomous

March 4, 2024

Via: CIO

The rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape in Europe is forcing CISOs to adopt new measures to protect their organisations and plan for the future. In the hunt for a solution, artificial intelligence and autonomous endpoint management are leading a new generation […]


BI Security

High-risk open source vulnerabilities on the rise, Synopsys reports

February 28, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Nearly three-quarters of codebases assessed for risk by Synopsis in 2023 contained open source components with high-risk vulnerabilities, according to a just-released report from the company, a provider of application security testing tools. While the number of codebases with at […]


BI Users, Executive

For IT leaders, operationalized gen AI is still a moving target

February 28, 2024

Via: CIO

The rate of companies that have either already deployed generative AI or are actively exploring it is accelerating to the point where, combined, there are very few holdouts. The use of gen AI in the enterprise was nearly nothing in […]


BI Users, Business Users

CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies

February 27, 2024

Via: CIO

After years of marching to the cloud migration drumbeat, CIOs are increasingly becoming circumspect about the cloud-first mantra, catching on to the need to turn some workloads away from the public cloud to platforms where they will run more productively, […]


BI Users, Business Users

Is your network ready to get the most out of Wi-Fi 7?

February 27, 2024

Via: Network World

The most recent advancement in wireless technology standards is called Wi-Fi 7. By offering significant advancements in speed, capacity, and efficiency, Wi-Fi 7 addresses several challenges that limited the effectiveness of previous versions of Wi-Fi. Unfortunately, reaping all the benefits […]


BI Categories, Data Mining

How data governance must evolve to meet the generative AI challenge

February 26, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Data governance was on my mind recently, so I decided to query ChatGPT by entering the prompt: “What is data governance?” The AI responded with: “Data governance is a set of processes, policies, standards, and guidelines that ensure data is […]


BI Users, Executive

Higher-ed CIOs embrace academia’s AI challenges

February 21, 2024

Via: CIO

CIOs on university campuses across the country have an obligation, as technology leaders, to provide the tools and expertise that staff, administration, and professors require to help fulfill the potential of students, and the university itself. But their commitment is […]


BI Users, Business Users

IT leaders are finding the right balance between on-premise and cloud

February 21, 2024

Via: Computer Weekly

A survey of 706 IT leaders conducted by Red Hat for its 2024 Global tech trends report has found that many organisations have figured out the mix between public and private cloud infrastructure. Compared with the previous year’s data, workload […]


BI Categories, Data Mining

7 Ways AI Will Transform Data Storage

February 21, 2024

Via: DATAVERSITY

The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) over the past year has transformed just about everything – ushering in a new era of innovation and growth the world has never seen. The same goes for data storage, […]