Category: Performance, security, and availability

May 18, 2018

A recent press release reports, “FD [First Derivatives] announces that its Kx technology, a world leader in time -series analytics for streaming, real-time and historical data, now supports rapid access to unstructured data with the release today of kdb+ 3.6, […]

May 17, 2018

The internet is about to undergo a major regulatory overhaul. On May 25, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — a set of data-handling rules put forth by European Union regulators — will go into effect. The new rules require […]

May 16, 2018

Enterprise NoSQL database provider MarkLogic has announced the release of MarkLogic 9.0-5. According to the company, the new release represents a major step forward in automated, secure workload management for data integration projects in the cloud, and in the data […]

May 11, 2018

Everyone loves insider tips. In the case of cloud computing, the tips that matter are mostly about cloud security approaches and technology. Here are three cloud security tips that your cloud provider won’t want to tell you. But I will. […]

May 10, 2018

Your company’s information is extremely important, and writing an information security policy is paramount to keeping it secure. You will need to figure out how management views security, get a good framework, and then adapt it to the company. Decide […]

May 9, 2018

According to a recent press release, “Split, the leading feature experimentation platform, today announced enhancements to its security readiness in response to new data regulations, including General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The company is continuing investments in Split’s Intelligent Security […]

May 8, 2018

A new report from McAfee highlights the skills gap when it comes to security in the cloud. The report reveals that one in four organizations using infrastructure as a service (IaaS) or software as a service (SaaS) have experienced cybersecurity […]

May 4, 2018

When you address security in the cloud for your enterprise use, you need to think of it in several layers: Layer 0 is the primary IaaS cloud on which everything else runs; typically, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud […]

May 2, 2018

Americans have long been divided in their views about the trade-off between security needs and personal privacy including data privacy. Much of the attention has been on how government collects data or uses surveillance, though there are also significant concerns […]

May 1, 2018

Your data has never been less secure. The number of security breaches that exposed people’s sensitive information surpassed 1,300 in 2017, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center, a San Diego-based nonprofit, up from only 200 in 2005. Major incidents […]

April 26, 2018

Companies continue to get wrapped up in this constant big data deluge. Expanding data volumes and longer data retention requirements are putting enormous and previously unforeseen stresses on organizations’ data security and compliance environments. DBTA recently held a webinar featuring […]

April 26, 2018

A new press release states, “Devart, a recognized vendor of professional database tools for developers and DBAs, has released a fresh version of SecureBridge, a network security solution. Now SecureBridge supports the FTP and FTPS protocols, which allow users to […]

April 25, 2018

The impact of cognitive computing technologies—including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)—is increasingly being felt in data centers and database operations of all sizes, across all industries. A recent survey of 1,000 executives published by Infosys found that AI […]

April 19, 2018

If more security breaches on social media and elsewhere happen, or if the number of accounts violated by groups both foreign and domestic increases, if the status quo persists, expect more people to insist that their data have better protection […]

April 18, 2018

According to a new press release, “DataStax, powering the Right-Now Enterprise with the always-on, distributed cloud database built on Apache Cassandra™, today announced the immediate availability of DataStax Enterprise 6 (DSE 6). DSE 6 allows customers to maintain hybrid cloud […]

April 18, 2018

The only way that companies can stay in the race in today’s severely competitive business environment is by implementing advanced tools and technologies in daily operations. Top of the list of priorities should be Data Management. This is primarily because […]

April 17, 2018

A new press release reports, “Symantec, the world’s leading cyber security company, announced today that the powerful threat detection technology used by its own world-class research teams to uncover some of the most notable cyber-attacks in history is now available […]

April 12, 2018

According to a recent press release, “Teradata, the leading cloud-based data and analytics company, today announced the availability of ‘4D Analytics,’ a new capability in advanced analytics that combines 3-dimensional geospatial location data with the 4th dimension of time. This […]

April 3, 2018

Regardless of computing environment, workload, or OS, availability is an essential part of operational success. Outages, system or application failures, and unplanned downtime are simply not acceptable for today’s pace of business in which even 10 minutes of inoperability translates […]

March 30, 2018

When using Transparent Data Encryption, you might wonder “What is the state of my transparent data encrypted database?”  There are many different states that a transparent data encrypted database might go through.  Those states go from not being encrypted to […]