If data are the crown jewels of enterprises, then the database should be as close to Fort Knox as possible without sacrificing things like performance. Saying that out loud is the easy part. The rest ...

Amassing terabytes of data is easy; for most businesses, managing those valuable—and sometimes very risky—assets is the hard part. A successful data governance initiative, experts say, isn’t a project ...

NoSQL includes a wide range of different database technologies and was developed as a result of surging volume of data stored. Relational databases are not capable of coping with this huge volume and ...

Estimates suggest that upwards of 80% of business information is unstructured data. That could cause headaches for anyone who needs to manage, organise and keep all that data secure. One survey, ...

In the Gold Rush days of big data, everyone clamored to collect every bit of data possible and to store it for future use. All in all, it was an excellent concept, but in actual practice, it was a dud ...

Data science is the hottest thing since sliced bread. In fact, LinkedIn has indicated that open job positions for data scientists are up a whopping 11,500% year over year. Yet many marketers feel like ...

"Dirty data"—data that has issues such as being incorrect or incomplete—can slow down operations, waste resources, and drive bad decisions. The solution to the problem is data cleansing, which is the ...