Managing Data Risk in 2021
You can’t protect your data if you don’t know where it is stored. The first thing to consider when creating a risk-based approach to data protection is the ability to identify and prioritize data, and control who has access to it. But, how do we do this? How do we prioritize data? In this TechStrong […]
Apollo GraphQL Offers Free API Management Service
Apollo GraphQL has announced the general availability of a free Development Graphs cloud service to simplify management of GraphQL application programming interfaces (APIs) at scale. GraphQL APIs have been gaining traction as an alternative to REST APIs because they provide developers with more control over who can access data via an API and are easier […]
DevOps’ Data Storage Problem
The technology sector has always been about problem-solving. When the value of big data was finally embraced, thanks to new analysis capabilities developed in the late nineties and early aughts, the industry adapted its mindset toward storage by investing in on-premises data centers to help store the data that would drive better business decisions. When […]
How Centralized Log Management Can Save Your Company
Through centralized log management, organizations can consolidate all log data into one central, data highway and directs logs wherever they need to go The digital transformation wasn’t gradual. It came crashing into industries worldwide in response to safety restrictions around the pandemic. Nearly a third of Americans are working remotely in light of the pandemic—drastically […]
Collibra Employs Microservices for Data Management
Collibra has launched a Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud based on a microservices architecture that promises to alter the way data is managed in enterprise IT environments. Jim Cushman, chief product officer for Collibra, said its approach sets the stage for leveraging microservices to create data workflows made up of reusable components. In fact, there may […]
Commvault Extends Data Protection Alliance with Microsoft
Commvault and Microsoft are extending their existing relationship to integrate Commvault’s data protection software with Azure Blob Storage. Azure Blob Storage is a service based on object-based storage optimized for unstructured data. Commvault last year launched the Metallic software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, which provides a cloud-based approach to managing data protection, that runs on Azure. The […]
The Top 5 Challenges to Overcome with Heroku Logging
Heroku can be a very powerful tool for monitoring the massive amount of data generated by your applications, systems, APIs and add-ons. One thing you may have discovered with Heroku logging is that making sense of data within your log files can be time-consuming. When you’re running large numbers of applications which process tons of […]
DataOps and DevOps: A Match Made in Heaven
The adoption of IT technologies has increased exponentially over the last few decades. Nowadays, the need to create quality web applications while simultaneously managing their extensive data effectively is a major concern for any organization. As such, there have been continuous efforts to come up with better approaches to software development, data analysis and data […]
Rubrik Looks to Meld Data Management and DevOps
During its FORWARD Digital Summit event last week, Rubrik made a case for the melding of DevOps and data management. The company announced that its Polaris Data Management Platform, delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, has added the ability to protect workloads running on virtual machines on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Rubrik already provides […]
How to Manage Data in Hybrid Cloud Environments
We’ve long-since established that multi-generational, multi-cloud environments are the new norm. But, how does one go about managing data in those environments? In this post, we’ll take a look at the ramifications of this hybrid cloud reality and best practices for managing your data for increased scalability and heightened availability. It’s All Cloud Whether it’s […]
How to Get Your Digital Data Game on with DataOps
As a new mindset, methodology and practice within data management, DataOps focuses on improving the communication, integration and automation of data flows to simply and successfully help developers, IT and the business create real-time data experiences and reduce the risk of project failure. DataOps enables developers and organizations to better adapt to fast changing business […]
5 Ways Your Business Can Benefit From DataOps
The amount of data that businesses generate and collect continues to soar, and enterprises that want to accelerate their end-to-end processes and obtain business insight can’t keep using the manual data management processes they have relied on for decades. And the situation will only get worse in the coming years. IDC expects the amount of […]
DevOps Chats: What Is Your Data Really Worth? with Splunk
Gaining real insights can catapult companies ahead of the competition, but that’s easier said than done. Splunk recently released its new report What Is Your Data Really Worth? which produced some very compelling results. Leading-edge data innovators use data to raise gross profits by 12.5%. Ninety-seven percent of this top tier meet or beat their […]
DataOps and Beyond: How DevOps Methodology Transformed Our Approach to Data Science
The DevOps methodology has become synonymous with forward technical thinking–a workplace culture that reinforces best cultural practice and promotes more, better quality output by synchronizing the functions of development and operations teams. As a testament to its popularity, the term has expanded in reach to refer to a broader set of transformational software-related practices. The […]
Survey Finds More Data Disruption Occurring
A global survey of 1,000 IT decision-makers with more than 250 employees conducted by Dell Technologies finds on average organizations managed 13.53 petabytes (PB) of data in 2019, a nearly 40% increase since 2018. The same survey also finds that as the amount of data has increased, so, too, has the cost of downtime. Those […]
Becoming a Data Company: Back to the Future
Transformations are complex, and it’s often difficult to see the big picture when you’re in the middle of one. The elegance of the end-state of harmonious synergy between software and data belie the complexity and chaos of the transition we find ourselves in the midst of. Not that long ago, there was a general balance […]
What Are AWS Application Patterns?
The cloud-native approach is not just about compute power and cloud services. A “set it and forget it” attitude won’t work with cloud native; there are far too many moving pieces and there is just way too much complexity. Instead, this approach requires constant testing, optimization and improvement. This is epitomized in the two key […]
Rethinking Data Management in a DevOps Environment
You often hear data is the new oil. This valuable, ever-changing commodity has begun to play a starring role in many cloud-native applications. Yet, according to a number of DevOps teams, data issues continue to plague their efforts to continuously integrate, test and deploy frequent software releases. More specifically, issues with persistent data (and its […]
How the World Measures DevOps Quality
With continuous everything, knowing whether each new release will ultimately enhance or undermine the overall user experience is essential. Yet, most of today’s go/no-go decision still hinge upon quality metrics designed for a different era. Every other aspect of application delivery has been scrutinized and optimized for DevOps. Why not re-examine quality metrics as well? […]
DevOps Chat: Data Protection in the Cloud With Druva
As any CIO knows, a data management architecture is essential to caring for one of the organization’s most valuable assets: data. Data management sounds simple but it’s not. Backup and recovery, disaster recovery, data retention, governance and e-discovery are all parts of any effective data protection strategy. As businesses move and grow their presence in […]
Cloud Complexities Hinder Effective Enterprise Data Management
Enterprises everywhere are rushing to embrace automation and AI to improve existing business processes and innovate. But they’re learning that if APIs are the glue they use to build their systems, data is the fuel that drives these efforts forward. According to data management provider Actian, however, enterprises are experiencing significant challenges when it comes […]
CAP Theorem No Match for Mainframes
One of the biggest problems in modern distributed computing is data management. These days data are spread out all over the place. As a result, getting the data you need, exactly when you need it, becomes a problem. Wider distribution creates more network latency. If you have a system in which some machines are in […]
Tips for Migrating and Managing Data Workloads in the Cloud
Unless you are an alien life form who just beamed down from space, you’ve heard all about the why of moving data workloads to the cloud. The cloud is a more scalable, more flexible, more available and possibly less expensive solution for storing and processing data. What is not always obvious is the how of […]