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...

What makes System i different from other platforms? A large part of the answer lies in the CPU architectures that System i servers use: System i relies on IBM POWER microprocessors, whereas most...

Mainframes have been the workhorses of the corporate data center for more than half a century. With the advent of new technologies such as the cloud and low-cost x86 commodity servers, many tech...

You know hackers want to steal your data. But what do hackers want to do with it? This article explains. Understanding hackers’ motives is important for developing strong data protection...

With increases in data breaches, the topics of data encryption and its importance are appearing more often in public discussions of data security. There is also increased confusion about the...

Apache Kafka is the kind of product that is relatively easy to describe at a high level, but when it comes down to explaining the deeper advantages and potential use cases, it gets a bit harder to...

GDPR. DSS. NIST. These are just some of the acronymous names of major regulatory compliance frameworks that organizations need to know today. With so many arcane acronyms with which to contend, it...