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Data virtualization tools promote anywhere, anytime data access
This online handbook examines data virtualization software and how organizations are deploying and using the technology as part of their data integration processes. Continue Reading
Data as a Service (DaaS)
Data as a Service (DaaS) is an information provision and distribution model in which data files (including text, images, sounds, and videos) are made available to customers over a network, typically the Internet. Continue Reading
Advice on enterprise data cleansing from an SAP VP
SAP's Kristin McMahon details data cleansing best practices and explains why a good data cleanse needs continual communication, collaboration and oversight. Continue Reading
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DataOps (data operations)
DataOps (data operations) is an Agile approach to designing, implementing and maintaining a distributed data architecture that will support a wide range of open source tools and frameworks in production. Continue Reading
data virtualization
Data virtualization is an umbrella term used to describe any approach to data management that allows an application to retrieve and manipulate data without needing to know any technical details about the data such as how it is formatted or where it ... Continue Reading
Hadoop
Hadoop is an open source distributed processing framework that manages data processing and storage for big data applications running in clustered systems.Continue Reading
Data model design tips to help standardize business data
Data models should be understandable to business users and kept to a reasonable scope, say the leaders of a data modeling initiative at England's Environment Agency.Continue Reading
USA Patriot Act
The USA Patriot Act is a law enacted in 2001, granting new and extended data-collection abilities to federal agencies in an effort to combat terrorism after the September 11 attacks.Continue Reading
USAA adds data engineering skills to speed data science work
When the United Services Automobile Association's data science team wasn't getting data in the right format, the team lead realized the USAA needed more data engineers.Continue Reading
data profiling
Data profiling is the process of examining, analyzing and reviewing data to collect statistics surrounding the quality and hygiene of the dataset.Continue Reading
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5 things to know about deploying big data systems in data containers
Planning for security and container APIs, and watching out for infrastructure sprawls are some issues to be aware of before deploying big data in containers.Continue Reading
DataOps is more than DevOps for data, Delphix CTO says
Data operations is young compared to DevOps, but it is increasingly used as part of projects that put data at the center of development. Here, Delphix CTO Eric Schrock makes observations about the trend.Continue Reading
data analytics (DA)
Data analytics (DA) is the science of examining raw data with the purpose of drawing conclusions about that information.Continue Reading
HR makes major strides toward improving employee engagement
big data
Big data is an evolving term that describes a large volume of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data that has the potential to be mined for information and used in machine learning projects and other advanced analytics applications.Continue Reading