Category: Education

May 25, 2017

MariaDB® Corporation, the company behind the fastest growing open source database, today announced the availability of MariaDB TX 2.0, the most feature complete, open source transactional database solution for modern application development. Businesses need technology that increases agility, scalability, security […]

May 24, 2017

It’s time to more aggressively pursue holistic Data Management,” says David Friedland, IRI VP of Business Development. “Marshalling all your data together in a centralized area,” so that everyone whose activities require access to it can perform their work in […]

May 17, 2017

Databases are at the heart of every organization’s data center: they’re arguably one of the most important components of a business’s success and surely one of the most complex and critical when it comes to resource consumption and performance management. […]

May 10, 2017

CauseSquare started in 2015, when co-founder and CTO, Walid Darwish and four of his friends, all developers, were volunteering their time with non-profit organizations and discovered that, “This sector, in terms of technology, still has a long way to go.” […]

May 4, 2017

The Smart Machine Age is upon us and is likely to disrupt many different human processes, tasks, and activities over the next 10 years and far longer as the key technologies continue to develop. The gradual availability of higher computing […]

May 3, 2017

X-IO Technologies today announced general availability of its Axellio edge-computing platform, delivering unprecedented real-time performance of 480 Gbps for complex analytics on high-volume, high-velocity, streaming data. The unique combination of performance, density and cost enables the next generation of capabilities […]

May 2, 2017

Cloudera, Inc., the provider of the leading modern platform for machine learning and advanced analytics built on the latest open source technologies, announced the general availability of the Cloudera Data Science Workbench, its self-service tool for data scientists. The workbench, […]

April 25, 2017

Podium Data is releasing the latest version of its data marketplace platform with added features that expand the enterprise-grade capabilities of the Podium solution. New security features, along with enhanced change data capture, schema evolution and customization features, make it […]

April 13, 2017

By now we are all in agreement: The business of data is changing. Business users are more empowered to work with data; IT is becoming less about control and more about enablement. New data science job descriptions—such as the data […]

April 13, 2017

Technology constructs are getting more complex and varied. This means data center performance problems—whether related to applications, compute, network, storage, virtualization, web, the cloud, or, most likely, a combination of these—are more difficult to resolve than ever. They’re true mysteries. […]

April 7, 2017

A recent press release out of IBM reports, “Cognitive technology has far reaching implications in Human Resources – from hiring through onboarding to HR operations, employee engagement and performance. According to an IBM report, HR executives are already recognizing the […]

March 24, 2017

With the shift to the client-server architecture in the mid-90s, databases became more centralized and the procedures for interacting with them became more formal. In response, a new category of tooling emerged under the moniker of ETL – extract, transform, […]

March 22, 2017

The Certified Ethical Hacker or CEH credential comes from EC Council, aka the International Council of Electronic Commerce Consultants. This organization sponsors a variety of IT security related certifications, amidst which portfolio the CEH provides a strong foundation in the […]

March 17, 2017

Mike Bowers, Enterprise Data Architect at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), spoke at the recent Enterprise Data World Conference (EDW) about lessons learned from eight years of using NoSQL databases. He talked about the design considerations […]

March 15, 2017

A white hat hacker, or ethical hacker, uses penetration testing techniques to test an organization’s IT security and to identify vulnerabilities. IT security staff then uses the results of such penetration tests to remediate vulnerabilities, strengthen security and lower an […]

March 13, 2017

The looming General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) have created alarm among companies over who will be accountable for implementing its requirements. Early research indicates that 79% of Britain’s medium and large companies are unsure about their compliance, and many do […]

March 10, 2017

Data Strategy in the education sector needs to take into consideration one big question: Why? Why should education professionals care about the seemingly endless streams of data they’re asked to enter into systems? Why should data input be a priority […]

March 9, 2017

Data breaches are disastrous events for enterprises and consumers alike. Sensitive information is stolen or made public. Cloud-based data breaches can be quite devastating because of the sheer volume of data that can be taken or manipulated. Cloud security is […]

March 8, 2017

When it comes to finding out what’s up with VMware training and certification, one of my go-to resources is the VMware Education and Certification Blog. I like to drop in there at least once a month to find out what’s […]

December 13, 2016

As revolutionary as machine learning will be, its impact will be highly asymmetric. While most machine learning algorithms, libraries and tools are in the public domain and computing power is a widely available commodity, data ownership is highly concentrated. This […]