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    Empower decision-making with real-time insights

    Using the right strategies is a crucial key to unlocking the benefits of real-time analytics and empowering organizations with agile data-driven decision-making.

    Stephen Catanzano • May 19, 2023
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    Informatica World 2023: Cloud, data and AI together

    Informatica launched the generative AI Claire GPT product and plans to offer Intelligent Data Management Cloud as a Microsoft Azure Native ISV Service.

    Stephen Catanzano • May 10, 2023
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    Modernizing a data warehouse for real-time decisions

    Updating a data warehouse to improve scalability, flexibility, security and speed is necessary to keep pace with real-time analytics demands.

    Stephen Catanzano • May 2, 2023
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    QlikWorld 2023 recap: The future is bright for Qlik

    Qlik celebrated analytics advancements at QlikWorld 2023, highlighting its acquisition of Talend, the evolution of Qlik Cloud, efforts to build data trust and more.

    Mike Leone • April 28, 2023
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    No, magic backup people aren’t protecting your SaaS data

    Are your SaaS-based applications protected? Organizations that rely on the SaaS vendor for backup and recovery face a tough road ahead. Don't skimp on internal backup measures.

    Christophe Bertrand • April 26, 2023
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    Technology decisions and technical debt in data protection

    In this video, two expert analysts discuss digital transformation, IT spending and technical debt, as well as how these topics fit into a data protection strategy.

    Christophe Bertrand • April 4, 2023
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    Data lakes: Key to the modern data management platform

    Data lakes influence the modern data management platform at all levels. Organizations can gain faster insights, save costs, improve governance and boost self-service data access.

    Stephen Catanzano • March 16, 2023
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    What’s all this talk about data mesh?

    Data mesh brings a variety of benefits to data management, but it also presents challenges if organizations don't have the right culture and infrastructure in place.

    Stephen Catanzano • March 2, 2023
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    Successful data analytics starts with the discovery process

    As organizational data grows more complex, discovery processes help organizations identify patterns to solve potential issues and improve business processes.

    Koushik Nandiraju • Feb. 28, 2023
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    Data protection for SaaS-based apps is a work in progress

    Organizations with SaaS-based applications are still relying on the providers for data protection, even though the vendors are rarely responsible for SaaS data backups.

    Christophe Bertrand • Feb. 16, 2023
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    Avoid data sprawl with a single source of truth

    Enterprise Strategy Group research shows organizations are struggling with real-time data insights. A single source of truth can make operations more efficient and more accurate.

    Stephen Catanzano • Feb. 13, 2023
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    3 data protection and governance predictions for 2023

    How should backup teams prepare for a new year? Data protection pros can adjust to a changing IT landscape by keeping an eye on ransomware, data governance and compliance.

    Christophe Bertrand • Jan. 26, 2023
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    ESG predicts 2023 shifts for DataOps, data management

    Organizations are using cloud technologies and DataOps to access real-time data insights and decision-making in 2023, according to Enterprise Strategy Group research.

    Stephen Catanzano • Jan. 25, 2023
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    Effective business continuity requires evolution and a plan

    Investment in business continuity is one of the best ways to get an organization back on its feet during and after an incident. Updated plans are critical to avoid a crisis.

    Renato Fazzone and David Dunn • Jan. 20, 2023
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    Organizations capitalize on intelligent data management

    Intelligent data management concepts are opening new avenues for organizations to make better data-centric decisions and extract more value from their data.

    Christophe Bertrand • Jan. 12, 2023
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    AWS DataZone headlines AWS re:Invent 2022

    AWS DataZone will enable the sharing, search and discovery of data at scale with less risk. It is one of many data advancements announced at AWS re:Invent 2022.

    Mike Leone • Dec. 8, 2022
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    Ransomware preparedness: The long road ahead

    Is your organization ready for ransomware? A recent survey shows that businesses in a variety of industries are all struggling with ransomware prevention and recovery.

    Christophe Bertrand • Nov. 21, 2022
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    Big Data London focuses on future of data-driven strategies

    At Big Data London, data quality and intelligence took center stage as companies strive for fast and efficient delivery of quality information -- and the vendors to make it happen.

    Stephen Catanzano • Oct. 5, 2022
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    The modern data platform drives data-centric organizations

    IT leads the modern data platform, functioning as the conduit, efficiently delivering the correct data to the right users, to empower data-driven decision-making in organizations.

    Stephen Catanzano • Aug. 15, 2022
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    The importance of continued business analytics education

    Business professionals can expand career opportunities by engaging in educational resources for business analytics, a key driver of data-driven decision-making and business success.

    Devin Partida • Aug. 12, 2022
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    SaaS data protection is a challenging but critical task

    Don't fall victim to a SaaS backup gap. Ensure critical data in cloud-based SaaS applications has proper protection, especially with increased cloud use.

    Paul Crocetti • Aug. 16, 2021
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    Successful digital transformation strategies start with data

    Data has become a natural resource essential to business ops. Companies need to consider four digital transformation elements when developing strategies to harness data.

    Amaresh Tripathy, senior vice president and global analytics leader, Genpact • July 30, 2021
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    Data governance strategies for today’s evolving IT landscape

    With remote work becoming part of the norm and as companies migrate more data into the cloud, it's imperative that companies review their data governance strategy.

    Rita Gurevich • June 18, 2021
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    How parallelization works in streaming systems

    Dive into this book excerpt from 'Grokking Streaming Systems' and learn the crucial role the parallelization process plays in the design of a streaming system.

    Josh Fischer and Ning Wang, Manning Publications • March 31, 2021
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    What analytics leaders need to know about graph technology

    Enterprise graph analytics adoption has been trending recently and is only expected to grow. Gartner analyst Mark Beyer explores what you need to know about graph technology.

    Mark Beyer • March 19, 2021