How to Avoid Cloud Vendor Lock-in with Four Best Practices
This article on avoiding cloud vendor lock-in was originally published in Enterprise Tech Journal. Accelerating paces of digital business and technology innovations have created massive amounts of data that require continual integration. Ninety percent of the world’s data has been created in the past two years. Examples of new data include cloud, mobile, social media, […]
How the Cloud Complicates Data Quality (& How You Can Fix It)
By now, you’ve heard all about the advantages of cloud computing. But the cloud also has its downsides. Among them are the special challenges for data quality that arise when data and data applications move to the cloud. This does not mean that you shouldn’t use the cloud for storing and processing data. It does […]
Best of 2021: Top 10 Location Intelligence & Data Enrichment Blog Posts
2021 brought some exciting content in the area of Location Intelligence and Data Enrichment and as this year comes to a close we wanted to share our most popular posts of the year that brought us insight and knowledge. Let’s get started! #10 The Risk Next Door: A New School Approach to Co-Tenant and Adjacent […]
Is Multi-Cloud Architecture Right For Your Data?
Could a multi-cloud architecture improve your data management strategy? That’s a question more and more companies are likely to ask themselves as multi-cloud computing grows in popularity. What is multi-cloud computing? Multi-cloud computing refers to cloud computing architectures in which organizations leverage multiple clouds at once. In some cases, multi-cloud architectures involve spreading the same […]
Making Mainframe Data Available on Snowflake
I don’t like to admit how long it took me to embrace the cloud. Fortunately for me, I was already a cloud believer by the time I saw Snowflake, so I was ready to appreciate what a game changer it was. I would not say I was an early adopter of the cloud. I understood […]
How to Avoid Cloud Vendor Lock-in with 4 Best Practices – Part 2
This article on avoiding cloud vendor lock-in was originally published in Enterprise Tech Journal. Part one of this two part post focused on the separation-of-concerns designs principle and designing resilient integration architectures for hybrid and multi-cloud environments. This part includes information on planning an integration strategy and adopting an enterprise integration solution. Best Practice 3: […]
Your Mainframe Is the Original Cloud
Cloud computing did not become a tech buzzword until about a decade ago. But in effect, lots of organizations were deploying infrastructure that provided the same benefits as the cloud long before that. How, you ask? By using mainframes. In many respects, mainframes were doing the things that the cloud does long before anyone was […]
Regulations Remain Top Security Challenge for IT Professionals
To the consternation of IT professionals everywhere, data security challenges continue to evolve each year. Precisely’s Annual Security Survey for 2019 highlighted the challenge of the adoption of cloud services as well as the increasingly distributed nature of data. Even in the midst of emerging issues, some challenges remain constant. For example, regulatory compliance continues […]
Precisely Partners with Databricks to Break Down Your Data Silos
Today, Precisely announced its new partnership with Databricks to help organizations liberate data from a diverse set of silos – mainframe, IBM i, on-prem Hadoop, Oracle, and more – and leverage massively scalable cloud processing to deliver actionable insights and predictions to the business. Data-driven organizations are looking across the enterprise for the data to […]
IBM z15 – A New Member in the Multicloud Family
IBM announced the z15 mainframe on September 12, 2019. It’s a big deal in the mainframe world, and I was at IBM’s Poughkeepsie site on that day. I was there the whole week working with IBM’s performance team. That day, when we were having lunch together, their engineers’ excitement was too obvious for me to […]