Tag: Cloud Data

June 20, 2024

Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s annual Azure infrastructure presentations at Build are always fascinating as he explores the past, present, and future of the hardware that underpins the cloud. This year’s talk was no different, focusing on the same AI platform […]

March 15, 2023

Cloud data security is a crucial aspect of safeguarding sensitive data stored in cloud environments from unauthorized access, theft, and other security threats. This entails implementing a wide range of robust security measures that can protect cloud infrastructure, applications, and […]

December 13, 2021

Enterprise data warehouses, or EDWs, are unified databases for all historical data across an enterprise, optimized for analytics. These days, organizations implementing data warehouses often consider creating the data warehouse in the cloud rather than on premises. Many also consider […]

July 29, 2020

Organisations continue to leave assets deployed in the public cloud with services such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft routinely exposed and unprotected, with cloud estates now frequently breached through weak links such as neglected and unpatched internet-facing workloads, authentication issues […]

April 5, 2018

Many organisations are beginning to rely on real-time insights to drive mission-critical business decisions, but a recent study by Accenture and HfS Research states that nearly 80% of companies can’t make data-driven decisions due to a lack of skills and […]

May 15, 2017

At first glance, Microsoft’s new Cosmos DB Azure database seems like a rebadged successor to Azure’s planet-scale NoSQL offering, DocumentDB. It’s easy to read Cosmos DB as a point-revision version of its predecessor, down to the fact that existing DocumentDB users […]

April 26, 2017

The internet never forgets, which means data that should have been deleted doesn’t always stay deleted. Call it “zombie data,” and unless your organization has a complete understanding of how your cloud providers handle file deletion requests, it can come […]

March 21, 2017

Many companies are still not applying the best technologies, policies and procedures to ensure sensitive data is protected in the cloud. Cloud data security is still a major challenge for companies, with only one-third of sensitive data in cloud applications […]

November 21, 2016

Businesses that want to get their files out of on-premises data centers and into the cloud now have a new option from Box. On Wednesday, the company launched Box Shuttle, which includes tools and consulting services to help businesses move […]

April 13, 2016

DataStax, provider of database software for cloud applications, is releasing a scale-out graph database solution built for cloud applications, providing users with a new tool for maintaining their highly connected data. “Relational databases were built to join different data together, […]

May 21, 2015

Many enterprises are reluctant to move sensitive data to the cloud — for good reason. Copying tons of data for the sake of development is a huge hassle. It’s also easy to make mistakes: Copy one file to the wrong […]