For many enterprises today, the data captured and retained by their IT systems is among their most valuable assets. Making effective use of that unique pool of information and data optimization can...

Big data has moved beyond ‘new tech’ status and into mainstream use. Most businesses are now leveraging data integration to consolidate systems, eliminate data silos, and streamline...

Data literacy skills are essential to modern business success. Business users have access to more data than ever before, but if they can’t understand it and interpret it, they won’t be able to...

Achieving high availability for data is tough. The best-laid data infrastructures often go awry for a variety of reasons, and they bring data availability down with them. What are those things that...

When disaster strikes, your firm must find a way to ensure business continuity. That means getting your networks and systems up and running as quickly as possible. However, that raises questions. Do...

You can store all your data for some amount of time, and you can store some of your data for an infinite amount of time, but you can’t store all your data forever. Not even a company the size...

A successful data governance team requires alignment to clearly defined business requirements. Yet far too many data governance programs fail to achieve objectives because they miss this...

Cybercriminals continue to be as active and sophisticated in their attacks as they’ve ever been. In 2018, companies suffered more than 6,500 major data breaches that compromised vital personal...

How many times do you access your data on a daily basis? It could be just a few or 100 times a day, but in either case, you depend on that data for almost every decision you make. So imagine what...