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...

Often described as data about data, metadata is a foundational element used to transform data into an enterprise-wide asset. Metadata helps understand the data behind it and reflects how data is used...

Gartner reports that 80% of data governance initiatives fail to deliver on their expected outcomes. Harvard Business Review has found that over 65% of the target users for data governance initiatives...

If you think mainframe programming languages are all relics of the past, think again. Contrary to popular belief, mainframes remain alive and well, as do the programmers who write code for them. And...

IBM i in the cloud opens up a new world of possibilities for high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR). Real-time logical replication offers ultimate flexibility, providing a faster,...

The promise of big data rests on the laurels of customer impact and value creation at fascinating speeds. However, the more data an organization collects directly correlates to how difficult it is to...

Two trending topics in data today are data democratization and data literacy. Here, we’ll explore what these two trends mean, why they are important now, and why they are likely to continue to...

If you’re using ServiceNow and have traditional IBM environments, there’s an excellent chance that ServiceNow can’t discover them. That’s a problem, because there’s still quite a bit of...

Products and the channels through which businesses sell them have become vastly more complex over the past several decades. As commerce has become increasingly digitized, product variations have...