Data management strategies

Data is a corporate asset that helps make more-informed business decisions, improve marketing campaigns, optimize business operations and reduce costs. Learn data management strategies to ensure IT systems run business applications and provide analytical information that drives decision-making and strategic planning by corporate executives, business managers and end users.

July 28, 2022 28 Jul'22
Truist chief data officer on data management challenges

The CDO of bank holding company Truist outlines what she sees as an optimal data management culture as the demand for data skills continues to grow.
July 22, 2022 22 Jul'22
Apache Beam users detail stream data processing applications

At a Beam conference, users detail how they're using the open source data processing technology at large scale in support of a growing number of data pipelines.
July 20, 2022 20 Jul'22
Oracle Database Service for Azure connects Microsoft to OCI

Oracle and Microsoft are extending their partnership to enable Microsoft cloud users to directly provision and access Oracle Cloud Infrastructure database services.
July 19, 2022 19 Jul'22
Confluent update eases multi-cloud event data streaming

The event data streaming vendor's new update introduces features to make it easier to integrate into a multi-cloud data stack deployment with the debut of a Terraform provider.

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data catalog

A data catalog is a software application that creates an inventory of an organization's data assets to help data professionals and business users find relevant data for analytics uses. Continue Reading
data governance policy

A data governance policy is a documented set of guidelines for ensuring that an organization's data and information assets are managed consistently and used properly. Continue Reading
What is data lineage? Techniques, best practices and tools

Organizations can bolster data governance efforts by tracking the lineage of data in their systems. Get advice on how to do so and how data lineage tools can help. Continue Reading

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What is a cloud database? An in-depth cloud DBMS guide

A cloud database is an organized and managed collection of data in an IT system that resides on a public, private or hybrid cloud computing platform. Continue Reading
On-premises vs. cloud data warehouses: Pros and cons

Data warehouses increasingly are being deployed in the cloud. But both on-premises and cloud data warehouses have pluses and minuses to consider, as explained here. Continue Reading
Explore the benefits and challenges of paperless offices

While transitioning to a paperless office can be costly, the benefits of paperless are enough to justify the cost for most organizations. Continue Reading

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Create a better endpoint backup strategy for remote work

An endpoint backup strategy must protect data for remote employees working on a variety of devices without IT oversight. Incremental and immutable backups are key. Continue Reading
Tips to plan storage elements of artificial intelligence

Author and data engineer Chinmay Arankalle explores how organizations can manage storage for AI. Management and storage options include data lakes and high-performance storage. Continue Reading
How to plan and manage a multi-cloud database environment

Deploying databases on different cloud platforms offers various benefits. Here's a set of 10 best practices for building a multi-cloud database architecture. Continue Reading

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Data lake governance: Benefits, challenges and getting started

A data lake that isn't well governed may become more of a swamp. Here are key benefits and challenges of data governance in a data lake, plus initial steps to take. Continue Reading
8 proactive steps to improve data quality

Here are eight steps to take to improve your organization's data quality in a proactive way, before data errors and other issues cause business problems. Continue Reading
Enterprise augmented data management benefits and growth

Gartner predicts plenty of growth in the booming augmented data management market, which helps data professionals focus on insights over administrative tasks. Continue Reading