This document discusses big data and its importance. It notes that big data is more prevalent than many realize, with most companies and industries now dealing with large volumes of various types of data. It also explains that effectively managing big data provides competitive advantages, with data-savvy companies experiencing much stronger growth rates. Additionally, the document introduces DataStax Enterprise as a solution for easily and effectively managing big data at scale through its support for Apache Cassandra, analytics capabilities, visualization tools, and enterprise services.
The trends continue to point upward for data incidents and 2013 is becoming a pace setter. The shifting regulatory landscape promises to add further complications for companies struggling to prepare for and respond to data privacy incidents.
This webinar will feature two leading data breach experts who have performed a two year trend analysis across hundreds of cases to offer a powerful and up-to-date perspective on what has happened and their predictions for the future. It will also cover how these factors are shaping regulations which are in turn influencing decision-making in the C-Suite.
Our featured speakers for this timely webinar will be:
-Bill Hardin, Director of Data Privacy Response & Investigations, Navigant
-Jennifer Coughlin, Privacy and Data Security Attorney, Nelson, Levine
-Gant Redmon, Esq. General Counsel and VP of Business Development, Co3 Systems
Master Data in the Cloud: 5 Security FundamentalsSarah Fane
Your master data is essential to the smooth operation of your business. But it is also valuable to others. Master data is vulnerable to both internal and external attacks. As the future of business and data is increasingly cloud-based, we explore five fundamentals to ensure the security of your data.
Protect your confidential information while improving servicesCloudMask inc.
The document discusses security issues with cloud computing and software as a service (SaaS) applications. It introduces CloudMask as a solution that protects sensitive data by masking it before it enters encryption channels and at data centers. This prevents unauthorized access to data even if user credentials or data center security are compromised. CloudMask allows secure use of cloud services without the risks of data breaches and regulatory issues from exposed sensitive data.
To implement data-centric security, while simultaneously empowering your business to compete and win in today’s nano-second world, you need to understand your data flows and your business needs from your data. Begin by answering some important questions:
•
What does your organization need from your data in order to extract the maximum business value and gain a competitive advantage?
•
What opportunities might be leveraged by improving the security posture of the data?
•
What risks exist based upon your current security posture? What would the impact of a data breach be on the organization? Be specific!
•
Have you clearly defined which data (both structured and unstructured) residing across your extended enterprise is most important to your business? Where is it?
•
What people, processes and technology are currently employed to protect your business sensitive information?
•
Who in your organization requires access to data and for what specific purposes?
•
What time constraints exist upon the organization that might affect the technical infrastructure?
•
What must you do to comply with the myriad government and industry regulations relevant to your business?
Finally, ask yourself what a successful data-centric protection program should look like in your organization. What’s most appropriate for your organization?
The answers to these and other related questions would provide you with a clearer picture of your enterprise’s “data attack surface,” which in turn will provide you with a well-documented risk profile. By answering these questions and thinking holistically about where your data is, how it’s being used and by whom, you’ll be well positioned to design and implement a robust, business-enabling data-centric protection plan that is tailored to the unique requirements of your organization.
Threat Ready Data: Protect Data from the Inside and the OutsideDLT Solutions
Is your current state really threat ready?
Amit Walia, Senior Vice President, General Manager of Data Integration and Security at Informatica, shares how to protect data from the inside and the outside from the 2015 Informatica Government Summit.
There are three key challenges to effective data governance and security in the big data era: 1) ethics and compliance as personally identifiable data is widespread and regulations are increasing, 2) poor data management when there is no clear ownership or lifecycle management of data, and 3) insecure infrastructure as many IoT and other devices were not designed with security in mind. Effective data governance requires a combination of people, processes, and technology to classify, secure, and manage data throughout its lifecycle.
Where in the world is your PII and other sensitive data? by @druva incDruva
This document discusses the growing problem of businesses failing to adequately protect consumers' personal information. It notes that personal data has become increasingly dispersed across mobile devices and cloud computing. While this increases risks, many businesses are not taking proper steps to identify, locate, and protect sensitive personal data from unauthorized access and data breaches. The document provides recommendations for businesses to better secure personal information by identifying where it is stored, limiting access, implementing secure technologies, and automating risk identification.
The trends continue to point upward for data incidents and 2013 is becoming a pace setter. The shifting regulatory landscape promises to add further complications for companies struggling to prepare for and respond to data privacy incidents.
This webinar will feature two leading data breach experts who have performed a two year trend analysis across hundreds of cases to offer a powerful and up-to-date perspective on what has happened and their predictions for the future. It will also cover how these factors are shaping regulations which are in turn influencing decision-making in the C-Suite.
Our featured speakers for this timely webinar will be:
-Bill Hardin, Director of Data Privacy Response & Investigations, Navigant
-Jennifer Coughlin, Privacy and Data Security Attorney, Nelson, Levine
-Gant Redmon, Esq. General Counsel and VP of Business Development, Co3 Systems
Master Data in the Cloud: 5 Security FundamentalsSarah Fane
Your master data is essential to the smooth operation of your business. But it is also valuable to others. Master data is vulnerable to both internal and external attacks. As the future of business and data is increasingly cloud-based, we explore five fundamentals to ensure the security of your data.
Protect your confidential information while improving servicesCloudMask inc.
The document discusses security issues with cloud computing and software as a service (SaaS) applications. It introduces CloudMask as a solution that protects sensitive data by masking it before it enters encryption channels and at data centers. This prevents unauthorized access to data even if user credentials or data center security are compromised. CloudMask allows secure use of cloud services without the risks of data breaches and regulatory issues from exposed sensitive data.
To implement data-centric security, while simultaneously empowering your business to compete and win in today’s nano-second world, you need to understand your data flows and your business needs from your data. Begin by answering some important questions:
•
What does your organization need from your data in order to extract the maximum business value and gain a competitive advantage?
•
What opportunities might be leveraged by improving the security posture of the data?
•
What risks exist based upon your current security posture? What would the impact of a data breach be on the organization? Be specific!
•
Have you clearly defined which data (both structured and unstructured) residing across your extended enterprise is most important to your business? Where is it?
•
What people, processes and technology are currently employed to protect your business sensitive information?
•
Who in your organization requires access to data and for what specific purposes?
•
What time constraints exist upon the organization that might affect the technical infrastructure?
•
What must you do to comply with the myriad government and industry regulations relevant to your business?
Finally, ask yourself what a successful data-centric protection program should look like in your organization. What’s most appropriate for your organization?
The answers to these and other related questions would provide you with a clearer picture of your enterprise’s “data attack surface,” which in turn will provide you with a well-documented risk profile. By answering these questions and thinking holistically about where your data is, how it’s being used and by whom, you’ll be well positioned to design and implement a robust, business-enabling data-centric protection plan that is tailored to the unique requirements of your organization.
Threat Ready Data: Protect Data from the Inside and the OutsideDLT Solutions
Is your current state really threat ready?
Amit Walia, Senior Vice President, General Manager of Data Integration and Security at Informatica, shares how to protect data from the inside and the outside from the 2015 Informatica Government Summit.
There are three key challenges to effective data governance and security in the big data era: 1) ethics and compliance as personally identifiable data is widespread and regulations are increasing, 2) poor data management when there is no clear ownership or lifecycle management of data, and 3) insecure infrastructure as many IoT and other devices were not designed with security in mind. Effective data governance requires a combination of people, processes, and technology to classify, secure, and manage data throughout its lifecycle.
Where in the world is your PII and other sensitive data? by @druva incDruva
This document discusses the growing problem of businesses failing to adequately protect consumers' personal information. It notes that personal data has become increasingly dispersed across mobile devices and cloud computing. While this increases risks, many businesses are not taking proper steps to identify, locate, and protect sensitive personal data from unauthorized access and data breaches. The document provides recommendations for businesses to better secure personal information by identifying where it is stored, limiting access, implementing secure technologies, and automating risk identification.
Cashing in on the public cloud with total confidenceCloudMask inc.
Banks have always been targets for attack. The year 2011 appears to have been a critical tipping point for bank related cybercrime. Attacks grew at a rate of nearly 300 to 400% that year, and innovative attacks cost banks and customers a lot of money.
The Rise of Data Ethics and Security - AIDI WebinarEryk Budi Pratama
The document discusses the rise of data ethics and security. It begins with an introduction of the speaker and their background. It then covers various topics related to data ethics including the data lifecycle, implementation of data ethics through vision, strategy, governance and more. Big data security is also discussed as it relates to data governance, challenges, and approaches to building a security program. Regulatory requirements and their impact on data scientists is covered as it relates to privacy. Techniques for privacy control like data masking and tokenization in ETL processes are presented.
Presented at ISACA Indonesia Monthly Technical Meeting, 11 Dec 2019 at Telkom Landmark.
Key takeaways from my presentation:
1. Cloud customers have to understand the share responsibilities between customer and cloud provider
2. Different cloud service model (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) has different audit methodology
3. Customer’s IT Auditor have to be trained to have the skills needed to audit the cloud service
4. Understanding IAM in Cloud is very important. Each Cloud Service Provider has different IAM mechanism
5. Understanding different type of audit logs in cloud platform is important for IT Auditor
DAMA Webinar: The Data Governance of Personal (PII) DataDATAVERSITY
To do effective data governance, analysts should preview the amount of data their organization is collecting and consider if it is all necessary information to run the business or just “nice to have” data. Today companies are collecting a variety of Personally identifiable information (PII), combining it with location information, and using it to both personalize their own services and to sell to advertisers for behavioral marketing. Data brokers are tracking cell phone applications and insurance companies are installing devices to monitor driving habits. At the same time, however, hackers are embedding malicious software in company computers, opening a virtual door for criminals to rifle through an organization’s valuable personal and financial information.
This presentation explores:
•What company data should be tagged as “sensitive” data?
•Who within the company has access to personal data?
•Is the company breaking any privacy laws by storing PII data?
•Is the data secure from both internal and external hackers?
•What happens if there is an external data breech?
This document provides an overview of how big data solutions from ViON and IBM can help organizations drive decision making, security, and insight. It discusses challenges of leveraging big data, and introduces ViON's DataAdapt platform which removes roadblocks to big data through pre-configured solutions. Specific DataAdapt solutions are presented that can optimize threat detection, eliminate cyber threats, extend capabilities without compromising security, and put powerful experts from ViON on the client's side.
All product and company names mentioned herein are for identification and educational purposes only and are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners.
Secure dataroom whitepaper_protecting_confidential_documentse.law International
The document discusses protecting confidential documents as they increasingly travel outside corporate boundaries. It outlines the enormous costs of data breaches, both direct costs and indirect costs. It discusses how traditional IT approaches are inadequate for today's business needs of increased collaboration beyond firewalls. The document argues that a new paradigm is needed to securely share sensitive documents through best practice strategies that provide end-to-end protection beyond the firewall.
Cross border - off-shoring and outsourcing privacy sensitive dataUlf Mattsson
Ulf Mattsson is the CTO of Protegrity, with over 20 years of experience in research and development and global services at IBM. He has been involved in developing encryption, tokenization, and intrusion prevention technologies. The document discusses cross-border offshoring and outsourcing of privacy sensitive data in the cloud. It notes that cloud services are often provided by third parties and can involve data being stored in multiple locations. Regulations like PCI DSS and national privacy laws apply when data crosses borders or is outsourced. Sensitive data needs to be protected to comply with regulations and address threats while also enabling useful insights from the data. Methods like de-identification through tokenization and encryption can protect identifiable data
The disappearance of the network perimeter is the greatest security challenge according to one expert. Traditional network boundaries have been eroded by cloud services, mobile devices, and remote work access. This lack of a defined perimeter makes it difficult to know all assets and users on the network. Another issue is the use of unknown cloud services by employees that expose company data without IT oversight. To address this, companies need accurate asset inventories, security policies for all assets and services, and security awareness training for employees. The goal is minimizing risks so businesses can focus on their main operations.
The document discusses the risks associated with big data, including increased data production leading to higher costs of replication and storage, evolving privacy and security regulations, and growing litigation and discovery obligations. It notes that most of the significant risks and costs of big data are not clearly visible and addresses challenges in areas like existing infrastructure, regulatory compliance, contracting, data retention, and eDiscovery.
Data Stewardship is an approach to Data Governance that formalises accountability for managing information resources on behalf of others and for the best interests of the organization
Data Stewardship consists of the people, organisation, and processes to ensure that the appropriately designated stewards are responsible for the governed data.
It is shocking to note that about 3.5 billion people saw their
personal data stolen in the top two of the 15 biggest breaches
of this century alone. With the average cost of a data breach
exceeding $8 million, it is no wonder that safeguarding
confidential business and customer information has become
more important than ever. Furthermore, with stricter laws and governance requirements, data security is now everyone’s
responsibility across the entire enterprise.
However, that is easier said than done, and for that reason, an
an increasing number of organizations are relying heavily on data masking to proactively protect their data, avoid the cost of security breaches, and ensure compliance.
Building the Information Governance Business Case Within Your CompanyAIIM International
Information Governance is a critical component in today’s business world to ensure that ALL information is visible, organized, and compliant. This solution can help your business to gain a competitive edge through the strategic and economic use of information. Despite the critical need, many companies still struggle to get funding and buy-in from upper management to move initiatives forward. This presentation will highlight key focus points for IG advocates to get internal stakeholders on board.
Managed Security For A Not So Secure World Wp090991Erik Ginalick
This white paper discusses the need for managed security services given the growing threat landscape and constrained IT budgets. It notes that good security requires continual monitoring and adaptation to new threats. Compliance with regulations is also difficult given shrinking resources. Outsourcing security to an expert provider allows organizations to focus on core operations while gaining access to skilled professionals, comprehensive solutions, and expertise in managing security risks. The white paper concludes that a managed security strategy can help reduce costs and ensure compliance while allowing IT staff to focus on business needs.
Organizations continue to struggle to connect the dots and extract meaningful insight from the growing volume and variety of data in Hadoop.
Our Solution: Data Refinement, Entity Resolution and Analysis: Novetta Entity Analytics unifies the data scattered across your systems to give you a single unified view of the people, organizations, locations, and other entities or “things” and their relationships in your enterprise. By revealing the real-world networks, behaviors, and trends of the entities and relationships that exist within corporate data repositories and data silos, you can connect the dots to do completely new things such as enhance the customer experience, do more targeted marketing and reduce the risk of fraud. Novetta Entity Analytics makes Hadoop data useful to anyone using an adaptive process to unify all types of data – regardless of schema – and allows analysts to look at and connect their data in entirely new ways.
The Benefits:
- Accelerate operational insights by constructing complete 360 degree views of a customer, organization, location, product, event, at any volume from any source whether structured or unstructured
- Improve customer service and retention by identifying dissatisfied customers and service problems found in call details, transactions and other volumes of interaction data and documents
- Increase revenues by creating unified customer profiles and relationships to products and services improving cross-sell/up-sell opportunities
- Detect threat and fraud by connecting the dots between people, organizations and events across data sources including transactional details
-Lower costs by solving large complex data integration and management problems using a predictable, linearly scalable platform
OUR DIFFERENTIATORS
Understands unstructured content in context
Uncovers relationships
Finds the signal within the noise
This document discusses the opportunities and risks associated with big data for legal departments. It provides a cheat sheet on big data that includes mitigating privacy risks by implementing standard security protocols like anonymizing data and obtaining consent. It also notes the risks of uncontrolled data breaches and how algorithms can lead to issues like discrimination if not monitored closely. The document then provides further discussion of the implications of big data for legal departments, including navigating numerous privacy laws and regulations. It emphasizes the importance of understanding what data the organization has, establishing policies and procedures, and proactively addressing privacy and security to leverage big data's advantages while avoiding risks.
California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) is
one such law that empowers the residents of
California, United States to have enhanced
privacy rights & consumer protection. It is the
most comprehensive US state privacy law to
date.
ZoomLens - Loveland, Subramanian -Tackling Info RiskJohn Loveland
Most companies do not adequately manage information risk until a crisis occurs. With vast amounts of data being created and stored in various locations, it is difficult for companies to understand all the data they hold and the associated risks. A framework is proposed to help companies better understand their data by categorizing it based on risk level and access needs. This would allow companies to prioritize higher risk data and focus security investments more effectively.
Mobile / Tablet Application Development - What are my options?DATA Inc.
Presentation on Mobile / Tablet Application Development as done to the Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey on September 19, and to the New Jersey Technology Council on September 20.
The document outlines plans for a proposed future sustainable eco-city in Malaysia called SMCity. It will focus on limiting environmental impact through public transportation, renewable energy, and waste reduction. The city aims to be walkable and place parks within two minutes of every home. SMCity will also have its own power plant using renewable resources and promote social integration through community design. The proposal discusses zoning areas, transportation hubs, and creating a modular grid framework to allow flexibility and expansion for the future eco-friendly city.
Sap commitment to_open_data_acces_strategy_for_bi_sept_2013Atul Patel
The document summarizes SAP's strategy for open data access and business intelligence (BI). It discusses SAP's commitment to supporting diverse technology landscapes and new data sources. Specific announcements include support for Oracle OLAP, Salesforce.com, and the oData standard in upcoming releases. The semantic layer provides a common way to access different data sources. Future considerations include connecting to social, big, and web-based data sources.
Cashing in on the public cloud with total confidenceCloudMask inc.
Banks have always been targets for attack. The year 2011 appears to have been a critical tipping point for bank related cybercrime. Attacks grew at a rate of nearly 300 to 400% that year, and innovative attacks cost banks and customers a lot of money.
The Rise of Data Ethics and Security - AIDI WebinarEryk Budi Pratama
The document discusses the rise of data ethics and security. It begins with an introduction of the speaker and their background. It then covers various topics related to data ethics including the data lifecycle, implementation of data ethics through vision, strategy, governance and more. Big data security is also discussed as it relates to data governance, challenges, and approaches to building a security program. Regulatory requirements and their impact on data scientists is covered as it relates to privacy. Techniques for privacy control like data masking and tokenization in ETL processes are presented.
Presented at ISACA Indonesia Monthly Technical Meeting, 11 Dec 2019 at Telkom Landmark.
Key takeaways from my presentation:
1. Cloud customers have to understand the share responsibilities between customer and cloud provider
2. Different cloud service model (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) has different audit methodology
3. Customer’s IT Auditor have to be trained to have the skills needed to audit the cloud service
4. Understanding IAM in Cloud is very important. Each Cloud Service Provider has different IAM mechanism
5. Understanding different type of audit logs in cloud platform is important for IT Auditor
DAMA Webinar: The Data Governance of Personal (PII) DataDATAVERSITY
To do effective data governance, analysts should preview the amount of data their organization is collecting and consider if it is all necessary information to run the business or just “nice to have” data. Today companies are collecting a variety of Personally identifiable information (PII), combining it with location information, and using it to both personalize their own services and to sell to advertisers for behavioral marketing. Data brokers are tracking cell phone applications and insurance companies are installing devices to monitor driving habits. At the same time, however, hackers are embedding malicious software in company computers, opening a virtual door for criminals to rifle through an organization’s valuable personal and financial information.
This presentation explores:
•What company data should be tagged as “sensitive” data?
•Who within the company has access to personal data?
•Is the company breaking any privacy laws by storing PII data?
•Is the data secure from both internal and external hackers?
•What happens if there is an external data breech?
This document provides an overview of how big data solutions from ViON and IBM can help organizations drive decision making, security, and insight. It discusses challenges of leveraging big data, and introduces ViON's DataAdapt platform which removes roadblocks to big data through pre-configured solutions. Specific DataAdapt solutions are presented that can optimize threat detection, eliminate cyber threats, extend capabilities without compromising security, and put powerful experts from ViON on the client's side.
All product and company names mentioned herein are for identification and educational purposes only and are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners.
Secure dataroom whitepaper_protecting_confidential_documentse.law International
The document discusses protecting confidential documents as they increasingly travel outside corporate boundaries. It outlines the enormous costs of data breaches, both direct costs and indirect costs. It discusses how traditional IT approaches are inadequate for today's business needs of increased collaboration beyond firewalls. The document argues that a new paradigm is needed to securely share sensitive documents through best practice strategies that provide end-to-end protection beyond the firewall.
Cross border - off-shoring and outsourcing privacy sensitive dataUlf Mattsson
Ulf Mattsson is the CTO of Protegrity, with over 20 years of experience in research and development and global services at IBM. He has been involved in developing encryption, tokenization, and intrusion prevention technologies. The document discusses cross-border offshoring and outsourcing of privacy sensitive data in the cloud. It notes that cloud services are often provided by third parties and can involve data being stored in multiple locations. Regulations like PCI DSS and national privacy laws apply when data crosses borders or is outsourced. Sensitive data needs to be protected to comply with regulations and address threats while also enabling useful insights from the data. Methods like de-identification through tokenization and encryption can protect identifiable data
The disappearance of the network perimeter is the greatest security challenge according to one expert. Traditional network boundaries have been eroded by cloud services, mobile devices, and remote work access. This lack of a defined perimeter makes it difficult to know all assets and users on the network. Another issue is the use of unknown cloud services by employees that expose company data without IT oversight. To address this, companies need accurate asset inventories, security policies for all assets and services, and security awareness training for employees. The goal is minimizing risks so businesses can focus on their main operations.
The document discusses the risks associated with big data, including increased data production leading to higher costs of replication and storage, evolving privacy and security regulations, and growing litigation and discovery obligations. It notes that most of the significant risks and costs of big data are not clearly visible and addresses challenges in areas like existing infrastructure, regulatory compliance, contracting, data retention, and eDiscovery.
Data Stewardship is an approach to Data Governance that formalises accountability for managing information resources on behalf of others and for the best interests of the organization
Data Stewardship consists of the people, organisation, and processes to ensure that the appropriately designated stewards are responsible for the governed data.
It is shocking to note that about 3.5 billion people saw their
personal data stolen in the top two of the 15 biggest breaches
of this century alone. With the average cost of a data breach
exceeding $8 million, it is no wonder that safeguarding
confidential business and customer information has become
more important than ever. Furthermore, with stricter laws and governance requirements, data security is now everyone’s
responsibility across the entire enterprise.
However, that is easier said than done, and for that reason, an
an increasing number of organizations are relying heavily on data masking to proactively protect their data, avoid the cost of security breaches, and ensure compliance.
Building the Information Governance Business Case Within Your CompanyAIIM International
Information Governance is a critical component in today’s business world to ensure that ALL information is visible, organized, and compliant. This solution can help your business to gain a competitive edge through the strategic and economic use of information. Despite the critical need, many companies still struggle to get funding and buy-in from upper management to move initiatives forward. This presentation will highlight key focus points for IG advocates to get internal stakeholders on board.
Managed Security For A Not So Secure World Wp090991Erik Ginalick
This white paper discusses the need for managed security services given the growing threat landscape and constrained IT budgets. It notes that good security requires continual monitoring and adaptation to new threats. Compliance with regulations is also difficult given shrinking resources. Outsourcing security to an expert provider allows organizations to focus on core operations while gaining access to skilled professionals, comprehensive solutions, and expertise in managing security risks. The white paper concludes that a managed security strategy can help reduce costs and ensure compliance while allowing IT staff to focus on business needs.
Organizations continue to struggle to connect the dots and extract meaningful insight from the growing volume and variety of data in Hadoop.
Our Solution: Data Refinement, Entity Resolution and Analysis: Novetta Entity Analytics unifies the data scattered across your systems to give you a single unified view of the people, organizations, locations, and other entities or “things” and their relationships in your enterprise. By revealing the real-world networks, behaviors, and trends of the entities and relationships that exist within corporate data repositories and data silos, you can connect the dots to do completely new things such as enhance the customer experience, do more targeted marketing and reduce the risk of fraud. Novetta Entity Analytics makes Hadoop data useful to anyone using an adaptive process to unify all types of data – regardless of schema – and allows analysts to look at and connect their data in entirely new ways.
The Benefits:
- Accelerate operational insights by constructing complete 360 degree views of a customer, organization, location, product, event, at any volume from any source whether structured or unstructured
- Improve customer service and retention by identifying dissatisfied customers and service problems found in call details, transactions and other volumes of interaction data and documents
- Increase revenues by creating unified customer profiles and relationships to products and services improving cross-sell/up-sell opportunities
- Detect threat and fraud by connecting the dots between people, organizations and events across data sources including transactional details
-Lower costs by solving large complex data integration and management problems using a predictable, linearly scalable platform
OUR DIFFERENTIATORS
Understands unstructured content in context
Uncovers relationships
Finds the signal within the noise
This document discusses the opportunities and risks associated with big data for legal departments. It provides a cheat sheet on big data that includes mitigating privacy risks by implementing standard security protocols like anonymizing data and obtaining consent. It also notes the risks of uncontrolled data breaches and how algorithms can lead to issues like discrimination if not monitored closely. The document then provides further discussion of the implications of big data for legal departments, including navigating numerous privacy laws and regulations. It emphasizes the importance of understanding what data the organization has, establishing policies and procedures, and proactively addressing privacy and security to leverage big data's advantages while avoiding risks.
California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) is
one such law that empowers the residents of
California, United States to have enhanced
privacy rights & consumer protection. It is the
most comprehensive US state privacy law to
date.
ZoomLens - Loveland, Subramanian -Tackling Info RiskJohn Loveland
Most companies do not adequately manage information risk until a crisis occurs. With vast amounts of data being created and stored in various locations, it is difficult for companies to understand all the data they hold and the associated risks. A framework is proposed to help companies better understand their data by categorizing it based on risk level and access needs. This would allow companies to prioritize higher risk data and focus security investments more effectively.
Mobile / Tablet Application Development - What are my options?DATA Inc.
Presentation on Mobile / Tablet Application Development as done to the Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey on September 19, and to the New Jersey Technology Council on September 20.
The document outlines plans for a proposed future sustainable eco-city in Malaysia called SMCity. It will focus on limiting environmental impact through public transportation, renewable energy, and waste reduction. The city aims to be walkable and place parks within two minutes of every home. SMCity will also have its own power plant using renewable resources and promote social integration through community design. The proposal discusses zoning areas, transportation hubs, and creating a modular grid framework to allow flexibility and expansion for the future eco-friendly city.
Sap commitment to_open_data_acces_strategy_for_bi_sept_2013Atul Patel
The document summarizes SAP's strategy for open data access and business intelligence (BI). It discusses SAP's commitment to supporting diverse technology landscapes and new data sources. Specific announcements include support for Oracle OLAP, Salesforce.com, and the oData standard in upcoming releases. The semantic layer provides a common way to access different data sources. Future considerations include connecting to social, big, and web-based data sources.
While Hadoop is the most well-known technology in big data, it’s not always the most approachable or appropriate solution for data storage and processing. In this session you’ll learn about enterprise NoSQL architectures, with examples drawn from real-world deployments, as well as how to apply big data regardless of the size of your own enterprise.
Where data security and value of data meet in the cloud ulf mattssonUlf Mattsson
Title: Where Data Security and Data Value Meet in the Cloud
Abstract:
The biggest challenge in this new paradigm of the cloud and an interconnected world, is merging data security with data value and productivity. What’s required is a seamless, boundless security framework to maximize data utility while minimizing risk. In this webinar, you’ll learn about value-preserving data-centric security methods, how to keep track of your data and monitor data access outside the enterprise, and best practices for protecting data and privacy in the perimeter-less enterprise.
BrightTALK webinar, January 14, 2014
Practical advice for cloud data protection ulf mattsson - jun 2014Ulf Mattsson
This document provides an overview of practical advice for cloud data protection. It discusses issues with cloud computing including security concerns related to multi-tenancy and control. It also covers cloud service models of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS and recommends approaches like encryption, tokenization, and access management to protect data in the cloud. The document outlines security solutions, threats related to virtualization, and new technologies that can help prevent attacks and turn the tide of cloud security.
Public clouds provide no control over security once data is inside, leaving consumers reliant on the provider. Private clouds give limited control for managing security within outsourced infrastructure as a service. A cloud gateway appliance can be deployed as a gateway to public clouds, providing security and control over data in public cloud environments.
Ulf Mattsson will highlight current trends in the security landscape based on major industry report findings, and discuss how we should re-think our security approach.
Data Mining: The Top 3 Things You Need to Know to Achieve Business Improvemen...Dr. Cedric Alford
While companies have been using various CRM and automation technologies for many years to capture and retain traditional business data, these existing technologies were not built to handle the massive explosion in data that is occurring today. The shift started nearly 10 years ago with expanding usage of the internet and the introduction of social media. But the pace has accelerated in the past five years following the introduction of smart phones and digital devices such as tablets and GPS devices. The continued rise in these technologies is creating a constant increase in complex data on a daily basis.
The result? Many companies don't know how to get value and insights from the massive amounts of data they have today. Worse yet, many more are uncertain how to leverage this data glut for business advantage tomorrow. In this white paper, we will explore three important things to know about big data and how companies can achieve major business benefits and improvements through effective data mining of their own big data.
Dr. Cedric Alford provides a roadmap for organizations seeking to understand how to make Big Data actionable.
Use of big data technologies in capital marketsInfosys
What concerns capital market firms today is not the increase in data, but the volume of overall unstructured data. Capital market firms invest heavily in Big Data technologies despite the implementation costs involved. This article discusses the key transformations that capital market firms are undergoing to handle big data, drivers for use of big data technology in capital markets and relevant use cases.
LEVERAGING CLOUD BASED BIG DATA ANALYTICS IN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT FOR ENHANC...ijdpsjournal
In recent past, big data opportunities have gained much momentum to enhance knowledge management in
organizations. However, big data due to its various properties like high volume, variety, and velocity can
no longer be effectively stored and analyzed with traditional data management techniques to generate
values for knowledge development. Hence, new technologies and architectures are required to store and
analyze this big data through advanced data analytics and in turn generate vital real-time knowledge for
effective decision making by organizations. More specifically, it is necessary to have a single infrastructure
which provides common functionality of knowledge management, and flexible enough to handle different
types of big data and big data analysis tasks. Cloud computing infrastructures capable of storing and
processing large volume of data can be used for efficient big data processing because it minimizes the
initial cost for the large-scale computing infrastructure demanded by big data analytics. This paper aims to
explore the impact of big data analytics on knowledge management and proposes a cloud-based conceptual
framework that can analyze big data in real time to facilitate enhanced decision making intended for
competitive advantage. Thus, this framework will pave the way for organizations to explore the relationship
between big data analytics and knowledge management which are mostly deemed as two distinct entities.
LEVERAGING CLOUD BASED BIG DATA ANALYTICS IN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT FOR ENHANCE...ijdpsjournal
In recent past, big data opportunities have gained much momentum to enhance knowledge management in
organizations. However, big data due to its various properties like high volume, variety, and velocity can
no longer be effectively stored and analyzed with traditional data management techniques to generate
values for knowledge development. Hence, new technologies and architectures are required to store and
analyze this big data through advanced data analytics and in turn generate vital real-time knowledge for
effective decision making by organizations. More specifically, it is necessary to have a single infrastructure
which provides common functionality of knowledge management, and flexible enough to handle different
types of big data and big data analysis tasks. Cloud computing infrastructures capable of storing and
processing large volume of data can be used for efficient big data processing because it minimizes the
initial cost for the large-scale computing infrastructure demanded by big data analytics. This paper aims to
explore the impact of big data analytics on knowledge management and proposes a cloud-based conceptual
framework that can analyze big data in real time to facilitate enhanced decision making intended for
competitive advantage. Thus, this framework will pave the way for organizations to explore the relationship
between big data analytics and knowledge management which are mostly deemed as two distinct entities.
LEVERAGING CLOUD BASED BIG DATA ANALYTICS IN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT FOR ENHANCE...ijdpsjournal
In recent past, big data opportunities have gained much momentum to enhance knowledge management in
organizations. However, big data due to its various properties like high volume, variety, and velocity can
no longer be effectively stored and analyzed with traditional data management techniques to generate
values for knowledge development. Hence, new technologies and architectures are required to store and
analyze this big data through advanced data analytics and in turn generate vital real-time knowledge for
effective decision making by organizations. More specifically, it is necessary to have a single infrastructure
which provides common functionality of knowledge management, and flexible enough to handle different
types of big data and big data analysis tasks. Cloud computing infrastructures capable of storing and
processing large volume of data can be used for efficient big data processing because it minimizes the
initial cost for the large-scale computing infrastructure demanded by big data analytics. This paper aims to
explore the impact of big data analytics on knowledge management and proposes a cloud-based conceptual
framework that can analyze big data in real time to facilitate enhanced decision making intended for
competitive advantage. Thus, this framework will pave the way for organizations to explore the relationship
between big data analytics and knowledge management which are mostly deemed as two distinct entities.
Who needs Big Data? What benefits can organisations realistically achieve with Big Data? What else required for success? What are the opportunities for players in this space? In this paper, Cartesian explores these questions surrounding Big Data.
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Big Data Means Big Business
Big data has the potential to disrupt existing businesses and help create new ones by extracting useful information from huge volumes of structured and unstructured data. To realize this promise, organizations need cheap storage, faster processing, smarter software, and access to larger and more diverse data sets. Big data can unlock new business value by enabling better-informed decisions, discovering hidden insights, and automating business processes. While the technology is available, organizations must also invest in skills, cultural change, and using information as a corporate asset to fully leverage big data.
Enterprises are facing exponentially increasing amounts of data that is breaking down traditional storage architectures. NetApp addresses this "big data challenge" through their "Big Data ABCs" approach - focusing on analytics, bandwidth, and content. This enables customers to gain insights from massive datasets, move data quickly for high-speed applications, and securely store unlimited amounts of content for long periods without increasing complexity. NetApp's solutions provide a foundation for enterprises to innovate with data and drive business value.
This document discusses best practices for big data analytics projects. It begins by defining big data and explaining that while gaining insights from large and diverse data sets is desirable, operationalizing big data analytics can be complex. It emphasizes understanding an organization's unique needs and challenges before selecting technologies. The document also explores how in-memory processing can help speed up analysis by reducing data transfer times, but only if the insights are integrated into decision-making processes.
This document provides an analysis of big data, including its characteristics, applications, and analytics techniques used by businesses. It discusses that big data is data that is too large to be processed by traditional databases and software. It has characteristics of volume, velocity, variety, and veracity. The document outlines tools for big data like Hadoop, MongoDB, Apache Spark, and Apache Cassandra. It explains that big data analytics helps businesses gain insights from vast amounts of structured and unstructured data to improve decision making.
The white paper discusses how enterprises are facing exponentially growing amounts of data that is breaking down traditional storage architectures. It outlines NetApp's approach to addressing big data challenges through what it calls the "Big Data ABCs" - analytics, bandwidth, and content. This allows customers to gain insights from massive data sets, move data quickly for high-performance applications, and store large amounts of content for long periods without increasing complexity. NetApp provides solutions to help enterprises take advantage of big data and turn it into business value.
This document discusses big data analytics and how it is transforming business intelligence. It defines big data analytics as combining large datasets ("big data") with advanced analytic techniques. It describes big data using the three V's: volume, variety, and velocity. Volume refers to the large size of datasets. Variety means data comes from many different sources and formats. Velocity means data streams in continuously and in real-time. The document provides examples of how companies are using big data analytics to discover new insights and track changing customer behavior.
This document discusses Oracle's approach to big data and information architecture. It begins by explaining what makes big data different from traditional data, noting that big data refers to large datasets that are challenging to store, search, share, visualize, and analyze due to their volume, velocity, and variety. It then provides an overview of big data architecture capabilities and describes how to integrate big data capabilities into an organization's overall information architecture. The document concludes by outlining some key big data use cases and best practices for organizations adopting big data.
This document discusses Oracle's approach to big data and information architecture. It begins by explaining what makes big data different from traditional data, noting that big data refers to large datasets that are challenging to store, search, share, visualize, and analyze due to their volume, velocity, and variety. It then provides an overview of big data architecture capabilities and describes how to integrate big data capabilities into an organization's overall information architecture. The document concludes by outlining some key big data architecture considerations and best practices.
This document discusses big data analytics and analytical platforms. It finds that companies have been storing and analyzing large volumes of data for decades, but new types of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data from sources like the web and sensors are fueling even greater amounts of "big data". Analytical platforms have emerged to help organizations efficiently store and analyze this data. The report is based on a survey of 302 IT professionals and interviews with BI experts.
Big Data is Here for Financial Services White PaperExperian
Conquering Big Data Challenges
Financial institutions have invested in Big Data for many years, and new advances in technology infrastructure have opened the door for leveraging data in ways that can make an even greater impact on your business.
Learn how Big Data challenges are easier to overcome and how to find opportunities in your existing data and scale for the future.
This document discusses big data and provides an overview of key concepts and technologies. It defines big data as large volumes of data in various formats that are growing rapidly. It describes the four V's of big data - volume, velocity, variety, and value. The document then provides an overview of big data technologies like columnar databases, NoSQL, and Hadoop that are designed to handle large and complex data sets.
This document provides information about big data analytics. It defines what data and big data are, explaining that big data refers to extremely large data sets that are difficult to process using traditional data management tools. It discusses the volume, variety, velocity, and veracity characteristics of big data. Examples of big data sources and sizes are provided, such as the terabytes of data generated each day by the New York Stock Exchange and Facebook. The document also covers structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data types; advantages of big data processing; and types of digital advertising.
Move It Don't Lose It: Is Your Big Data Collecting Dust?Jennifer Walker
The document discusses the rapid growth of big data and challenges of gaining insights from data. Some key points:
- By 2020, the digital universe is projected to reach 40 zettabytes, with 5,200 GB of data for every person on Earth.
- Data is coming from a growing number of sources like IoT devices, mobile devices, social media, and more. Much of this data is unstructured.
- Moving large amounts of data to storage and analytics platforms in a timely manner is challenging using traditional ETL and bulk transfer methods, which can take months.
- Freshness of data is important for insights but current methods result in data becoming stale before it reaches its destination.
Forecast to contribute £216 billion to the UK economy via business creation, efficiency and innovation, and generate 360,000 new jobs by 2020, big data is a key area for recruiters.
In this QuickView:
- Big data in numbers
- Top 10 industries hiring big data professionals
- Top 10 qualifications sought by hirers
- Top 10 database and BI skills sought by hirers
- Getting started in big data: popular big data techniques and vendors
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Architecture, Products, and Total Cost of Ownership of the Leading Machine Le...DATAVERSITY
Organizations today need a broad set of enterprise data cloud services with key data functionality to modernize applications and utilize machine learning. They need a comprehensive platform designed to address multi-faceted needs by offering multi-function data management and analytics to solve the enterprise’s most pressing data and analytic challenges in a streamlined fashion.
In this research-based session, I’ll discuss what the components are in multiple modern enterprise analytics stacks (i.e., dedicated compute, storage, data integration, streaming, etc.) and focus on total cost of ownership.
A complete machine learning infrastructure cost for the first modern use case at a midsize to large enterprise will be anywhere from $3 million to $22 million. Get this data point as you take the next steps on your journey into the highest spend and return item for most companies in the next several years.
Data at the Speed of Business with Data Mastering and GovernanceDATAVERSITY
Do you ever wonder how data-driven organizations fuel analytics, improve customer experience, and accelerate business productivity? They are successful by governing and mastering data effectively so they can get trusted data to those who need it faster. Efficient data discovery, mastering and democratization is critical for swiftly linking accurate data with business consumers. When business teams can quickly and easily locate, interpret, trust, and apply data assets to support sound business judgment, it takes less time to see value.
Join data mastering and data governance experts from Informatica—plus a real-world organization empowering trusted data for analytics—for a lively panel discussion. You’ll hear more about how a single cloud-native approach can help global businesses in any economy create more value—faster, more reliably, and with more confidence—by making data management and governance easier to implement.
What is data literacy? Which organizations, and which workers in those organizations, need to be data-literate? There are seemingly hundreds of definitions of data literacy, along with almost as many opinions about how to achieve it.
In a broader perspective, companies must consider whether data literacy is an isolated goal or one component of a broader learning strategy to address skill deficits. How does data literacy compare to other types of skills or “literacy” such as business acumen?
This session will position data literacy in the context of other worker skills as a framework for understanding how and where it fits and how to advocate for its importance.
Building a Data Strategy – Practical Steps for Aligning with Business GoalsDATAVERSITY
Developing a Data Strategy for your organization can seem like a daunting task – but it’s worth the effort. Getting your Data Strategy right can provide significant value, as data drives many of the key initiatives in today’s marketplace – from digital transformation, to marketing, to customer centricity, to population health, and more. This webinar will help demystify Data Strategy and its relationship to Data Architecture and will provide concrete, practical ways to get started.
Uncover how your business can save money and find new revenue streams.
Driving profitability is a top priority for companies globally, especially in uncertain economic times. It's imperative that companies reimagine growth strategies and improve process efficiencies to help cut costs and drive revenue – but how?
By leveraging data-driven strategies layered with artificial intelligence, companies can achieve untapped potential and help their businesses save money and drive profitability.
In this webinar, you'll learn:
- How your company can leverage data and AI to reduce spending and costs
- Ways you can monetize data and AI and uncover new growth strategies
- How different companies have implemented these strategies to achieve cost optimization benefits
Data Catalogs Are the Answer – What is the Question?DATAVERSITY
Organizations with governed metadata made available through their data catalog can answer questions their people have about the organization’s data. These organizations get more value from their data, protect their data better, gain improved ROI from data-centric projects and programs, and have more confidence in their most strategic data.
Join Bob Seiner for this lively webinar where he will talk about the value of a data catalog and how to build the use of the catalog into your stewards’ daily routines. Bob will share how the tool must be positioned for success and viewed as a must-have resource that is a steppingstone and catalyst to governed data across the organization.
Data Catalogs Are the Answer – What Is the Question?DATAVERSITY
Organizations with governed metadata made available through their data catalog can answer questions their people have about the organization’s data. These organizations get more value from their data, protect their data better, gain improved ROI from data-centric projects and programs, and have more confidence in their most strategic data.
Join Bob Seiner for this lively webinar where he will talk about the value of a data catalog and how to build the use of the catalog into your stewards’ daily routines. Bob will share how the tool must be positioned for success and viewed as a must-have resource that is a steppingstone and catalyst to governed data across the organization.
In this webinar, Bob will focus on:
-Selecting the appropriate metadata to govern
-The business and technical value of a data catalog
-Building the catalog into people’s routines
-Positioning the data catalog for success
-Questions the data catalog can answer
Because every organization produces and propagates data as part of their day-to-day operations, data trends are becoming more and more important in the mainstream business world’s consciousness. For many organizations in various industries, though, comprehension of this development begins and ends with buzzwords: “Big Data,” “NoSQL,” “Data Scientist,” and so on. Few realize that all solutions to their business problems, regardless of platform or relevant technology, rely to a critical extent on the data model supporting them. As such, data modeling is not an optional task for an organization’s data effort, but rather a vital activity that facilitates the solutions driving your business. Since quality engineering/architecture work products do not happen accidentally, the more your organization depends on automation, the more important the data models driving the engineering and architecture activities of your organization. This webinar illustrates data modeling as a key activity upon which so much technology and business investment depends.
Specific learning objectives include:
- Understanding what types of challenges require data modeling to be part of the solution
- How automation requires standardization on derivable via data modeling techniques
- Why only a working partnership between data and the business can produce useful outcomes
Analytics play a critical role in supporting strategic business initiatives. Despite the obvious value to analytic professionals of providing the analytics for these initiatives, many executives question the economic return of analytics as well as data lakes, machine learning, master data management, and the like.
Technology professionals need to calculate and present business value in terms business executives can understand. Unfortunately, most IT professionals lack the knowledge required to develop comprehensive cost-benefit analyses and return on investment (ROI) measurements.
This session provides a framework to help technology professionals research, measure, and present the economic value of a proposed or existing analytics initiative, no matter the form that the business benefit arises. The session will provide practical advice about how to calculate ROI and the formulas, and how to collect the necessary information.
How a Semantic Layer Makes Data Mesh Work at ScaleDATAVERSITY
Data Mesh is a trending approach to building a decentralized data architecture by leveraging a domain-oriented, self-service design. However, the pure definition of Data Mesh lacks a center of excellence or central data team and doesn’t address the need for a common approach for sharing data products across teams. The semantic layer is emerging as a key component to supporting a Hub and Spoke style of organizing data teams by introducing data model sharing, collaboration, and distributed ownership controls.
This session will explain how data teams can define common models and definitions with a semantic layer to decentralize analytics product creation using a Hub and Spoke architecture.
Attend this session to learn about:
- The role of a Data Mesh in the modern cloud architecture.
- How a semantic layer can serve as the binding agent to support decentralization.
- How to drive self service with consistency and control.
Enterprise data literacy. A worthy objective? Certainly! A realistic goal? That remains to be seen. As companies consider investing in data literacy education, questions arise about its value and purpose. While the destination – having a data-fluent workforce – is attractive, we wonder how (and if) we can get there.
Kicking off this webinar series, we begin with a panel discussion to explore the landscape of literacy, including expert positions and results from focus groups:
- why it matters,
- what it means,
- what gets in the way,
- who needs it (and how much they need),
- what companies believe it will accomplish.
In this engaging discussion about literacy, we will set the stage for future webinars to answer specific questions and feature successful literacy efforts.
The Data Trifecta – Privacy, Security & Governance Race from Reactivity to Re...DATAVERSITY
Change is hard, especially in response to negative stimuli or what is perceived as negative stimuli. So organizations need to reframe how they think about data privacy, security and governance, treating them as value centers to 1) ensure enterprise data can flow where it needs to, 2) prevent – not just react – to internal and external threats, and 3) comply with data privacy and security regulations.
Working together, these roles can accelerate faster access to approved, relevant and higher quality data – and that means more successful use cases, faster speed to insights, and better business outcomes. However, both new information and tools are required to make the shift from defense to offense, reducing data drama while increasing its value.
Join us for this panel discussion with experts in these fields as they discuss:
- Recent research about where data privacy, security and governance stand
- The most valuable enterprise data use cases
- The common obstacles to data value creation
- New approaches to data privacy, security and governance
- Their advice on how to shift from a reactive to resilient mindset/culture/organization
You’ll be educated, entertained and inspired by this panel and their expertise in using the data trifecta to innovate more often, operate more efficiently, and differentiate more strategically.
Emerging Trends in Data Architecture – What’s the Next Big Thing?DATAVERSITY
With technological innovation and change occurring at an ever-increasing rate, it’s hard to keep track of what’s hype and what can provide practical value for your organization. Join this webinar to see the results of a recent DATAVERSITY survey on emerging trends in Data Architecture, along with practical commentary and advice from industry expert Donna Burbank.
Data Governance Trends - A Look Backwards and ForwardsDATAVERSITY
As DATAVERSITY’s RWDG series hurdles into our 12th year, this webinar takes a quick look behind us, evaluates the present, and predicts the future of Data Governance. Based on webinar numbers, hot Data Governance topics have evolved over the years from policies and best practices, roles and tools, data catalogs and frameworks, to supporting data mesh and fabric, artificial intelligence, virtualization, literacy, and metadata governance.
Join Bob Seiner as he reflects on the past and what has and has not worked, while sharing examples of enterprise successes and struggles. In this webinar, Bob will challenge the audience to stay a step ahead by learning from the past and blazing a new trail into the future of Data Governance.
In this webinar, Bob will focus on:
- Data Governance’s past, present, and future
- How trials and tribulations evolve to success
- Leveraging lessons learned to improve productivity
- The great Data Governance tool explosion
- The future of Data Governance
Data Governance Trends and Best Practices To Implement TodayDATAVERSITY
1) The document discusses best practices for data protection on Google Cloud, including setting data policies, governing access, classifying sensitive data, controlling access, encryption, secure collaboration, and incident response.
2) It provides examples of how to limit access to data and sensitive information, gain visibility into where sensitive data resides, encrypt data with customer-controlled keys, harden workloads, run workloads confidentially, collaborate securely with untrusted parties, and address cloud security incidents.
3) The key recommendations are to protect data at rest and in use through classification, access controls, encryption, confidential computing; securely share data through techniques like secure multi-party computation; and have an incident response plan to quickly address threats.
It is a fascinating, explosive time for enterprise analytics.
It is from the position of analytics leadership that the enterprise mission will be executed and company leadership will emerge. The data professional is absolutely sitting on the performance of the company in this information economy and has an obligation to demonstrate the possibilities and originate the architecture, data, and projects that will deliver analytics. After all, no matter what business you’re in, you’re in the business of analytics.
The coming years will be full of big changes in enterprise analytics and data architecture. William will kick off the fifth year of the Advanced Analytics series with a discussion of the trends winning organizations should build into their plans, expectations, vision, and awareness now.
Too often I hear the question “Can you help me with our data strategy?” Unfortunately, for most, this is the wrong request because it focuses on the least valuable component: the data strategy itself. A more useful request is: “Can you help me apply data strategically?” Yes, at early maturity phases the process of developing strategic thinking about data is more important than the actual product! Trying to write a good (must less perfect) data strategy on the first attempt is generally not productive –particularly given the widespread acceptance of Mike Tyson’s truism: “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.” This program refocuses efforts on learning how to iteratively improve the way data is strategically applied. This will permit data-based strategy components to keep up with agile, evolving organizational strategies. It also contributes to three primary organizational data goals. Learn how to improve the following:
- Your organization’s data
- The way your people use data
- The way your people use data to achieve your organizational strategy
This will help in ways never imagined. Data are your sole non-depletable, non-degradable, durable strategic assets, and they are pervasively shared across every organizational area. Addressing existing challenges programmatically includes overcoming necessary but insufficient prerequisites and developing a disciplined, repeatable means of improving business objectives. This process (based on the theory of constraints) is where the strategic data work really occurs as organizations identify prioritized areas where better assets, literacy, and support (data strategy components) can help an organization better achieve specific strategic objectives. Then the process becomes lather, rinse, and repeat. Several complementary concepts are also covered, including:
- A cohesive argument for why data strategy is necessary for effective data governance
- An overview of prerequisites for effective strategic use of data strategy, as well as common pitfalls
- A repeatable process for identifying and removing data constraints
- The importance of balancing business operation and innovation
Who Should Own Data Governance – IT or Business?DATAVERSITY
The question is asked all the time: “What part of the organization should own your Data Governance program?” The typical answers are “the business” and “IT (information technology).” Another answer to that question is “Yes.” The program must be owned and reside somewhere in the organization. You may ask yourself if there is a correct answer to the question.
Join this new RWDG webinar with Bob Seiner where Bob will answer the question that is the title of this webinar. Determining ownership of Data Governance is a vital first step. Figuring out the appropriate part of the organization to manage the program is an important second step. This webinar will help you address these questions and more.
In this session Bob will share:
- What is meant by “the business” when it comes to owning Data Governance
- Why some people say that Data Governance in IT is destined to fail
- Examples of IT positioned Data Governance success
- Considerations for answering the question in your organization
- The final answer to the question of who should own Data Governance
This document summarizes a research study that assessed the data management practices of 175 organizations between 2000-2006. The study had both descriptive and self-improvement goals, such as understanding the range of practices and determining areas for improvement. Researchers used a structured interview process to evaluate organizations across six data management processes based on a 5-level maturity model. The results provided insights into an organization's practices and a roadmap for enhancing data management.
MLOps – Applying DevOps to Competitive AdvantageDATAVERSITY
MLOps is a practice for collaboration between Data Science and operations to manage the production machine learning (ML) lifecycles. As an amalgamation of “machine learning” and “operations,” MLOps applies DevOps principles to ML delivery, enabling the delivery of ML-based innovation at scale to result in:
Faster time to market of ML-based solutions
More rapid rate of experimentation, driving innovation
Assurance of quality, trustworthiness, and ethical AI
MLOps is essential for scaling ML. Without it, enterprises risk struggling with costly overhead and stalled progress. Several vendors have emerged with offerings to support MLOps: the major offerings are Microsoft Azure ML and Google Vertex AI. We looked at these offerings from the perspective of enterprise features and time-to-value.
MongoDB to ScyllaDB: Technical Comparison and the Path to SuccessScyllaDB
What can you expect when migrating from MongoDB to ScyllaDB? This session provides a jumpstart based on what we’ve learned from working with your peers across hundreds of use cases. Discover how ScyllaDB’s architecture, capabilities, and performance compares to MongoDB’s. Then, hear about your MongoDB to ScyllaDB migration options and practical strategies for success, including our top do’s and don’ts.
An All-Around Benchmark of the DBaaS MarketScyllaDB
The entire database market is moving towards Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), resulting in a heterogeneous DBaaS landscape shaped by database vendors, cloud providers, and DBaaS brokers. This DBaaS landscape is rapidly evolving and the DBaaS products differ in their features but also their price and performance capabilities. In consequence, selecting the optimal DBaaS provider for the customer needs becomes a challenge, especially for performance-critical applications.
To enable an on-demand comparison of the DBaaS landscape we present the benchANT DBaaS Navigator, an open DBaaS comparison platform for management and deployment features, costs, and performance. The DBaaS Navigator is an open data platform that enables the comparison of over 20 DBaaS providers for the relational and NoSQL databases.
This talk will provide a brief overview of the benchmarked categories with a focus on the technical categories such as price/performance for NoSQL DBaaS and how ScyllaDB Cloud is performing.
Supercell is the game developer behind Hay Day, Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars. Learn how they unified real-time event streaming for a social platform with hundreds of millions of users.
MySQL InnoDB Storage Engine: Deep Dive - MydbopsMydbops
This presentation, titled "MySQL - InnoDB" and delivered by Mayank Prasad at the Mydbops Open Source Database Meetup 16 on June 8th, 2024, covers dynamic configuration of REDO logs and instant ADD/DROP columns in InnoDB.
This presentation dives deep into the world of InnoDB, exploring two ground-breaking features introduced in MySQL 8.0:
• Dynamic Configuration of REDO Logs: Enhance your database's performance and flexibility with on-the-fly adjustments to REDO log capacity. Unleash the power of the snake metaphor to visualize how InnoDB manages REDO log files.
• Instant ADD/DROP Columns: Say goodbye to costly table rebuilds! This presentation unveils how InnoDB now enables seamless addition and removal of columns without compromising data integrity or incurring downtime.
Key Learnings:
• Grasp the concept of REDO logs and their significance in InnoDB's transaction management.
• Discover the advantages of dynamic REDO log configuration and how to leverage it for optimal performance.
• Understand the inner workings of instant ADD/DROP columns and their impact on database operations.
• Gain valuable insights into the row versioning mechanism that empowers instant column modifications.
QR Secure: A Hybrid Approach Using Machine Learning and Security Validation F...AlexanderRichford
QR Secure: A Hybrid Approach Using Machine Learning and Security Validation Functions to Prevent Interaction with Malicious QR Codes.
Aim of the Study: The goal of this research was to develop a robust hybrid approach for identifying malicious and insecure URLs derived from QR codes, ensuring safe interactions.
This is achieved through:
Machine Learning Model: Predicts the likelihood of a URL being malicious.
Security Validation Functions: Ensures the derived URL has a valid certificate and proper URL format.
This innovative blend of technology aims to enhance cybersecurity measures and protect users from potential threats hidden within QR codes 🖥 🔒
This study was my first introduction to using ML which has shown me the immense potential of ML in creating more secure digital environments!
From Natural Language to Structured Solr Queries using LLMsSease
This talk draws on experimentation to enable AI applications with Solr. One important use case is to use AI for better accessibility and discoverability of the data: while User eXperience techniques, lexical search improvements, and data harmonization can take organizations to a good level of accessibility, a structural (or “cognitive” gap) remains between the data user needs and the data producer constraints.
That is where AI – and most importantly, Natural Language Processing and Large Language Model techniques – could make a difference. This natural language, conversational engine could facilitate access and usage of the data leveraging the semantics of any data source.
The objective of the presentation is to propose a technical approach and a way forward to achieve this goal.
The key concept is to enable users to express their search queries in natural language, which the LLM then enriches, interprets, and translates into structured queries based on the Solr index’s metadata.
This approach leverages the LLM’s ability to understand the nuances of natural language and the structure of documents within Apache Solr.
The LLM acts as an intermediary agent, offering a transparent experience to users automatically and potentially uncovering relevant documents that conventional search methods might overlook. The presentation will include the results of this experimental work, lessons learned, best practices, and the scope of future work that should improve the approach and make it production-ready.
Must Know Postgres Extension for DBA and Developer during MigrationMydbops
Mydbops Opensource Database Meetup 16
Topic: Must-Know PostgreSQL Extensions for Developers and DBAs During Migration
Speaker: Deepak Mahto, Founder of DataCloudGaze Consulting
Date & Time: 8th June | 10 AM - 1 PM IST
Venue: Bangalore International Centre, Bangalore
Abstract: Discover how PostgreSQL extensions can be your secret weapon! This talk explores how key extensions enhance database capabilities and streamline the migration process for users moving from other relational databases like Oracle.
Key Takeaways:
* Learn about crucial extensions like oracle_fdw, pgtt, and pg_audit that ease migration complexities.
* Gain valuable strategies for implementing these extensions in PostgreSQL to achieve license freedom.
* Discover how these key extensions can empower both developers and DBAs during the migration process.
* Don't miss this chance to gain practical knowledge from an industry expert and stay updated on the latest open-source database trends.
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Day 4 - Excel Automation and Data ManipulationUiPathCommunity
👉 Check out our full 'Africa Series - Automation Student Developers (EN)' page to register for the full program: https://bit.ly/Africa_Automation_Student_Developers
In this fourth session, we shall learn how to automate Excel-related tasks and manipulate data using UiPath Studio.
📕 Detailed agenda:
About Excel Automation and Excel Activities
About Data Manipulation and Data Conversion
About Strings and String Manipulation
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Excel Automation with the Modern Experience in Studio
Data Manipulation with Strings in Studio
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ScyllaDB Operator is a Kubernetes Operator for managing and automating tasks related to managing ScyllaDB clusters. In this talk, you will learn the basics about ScyllaDB Operator and its features, including the new manual MultiDC support.
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
ScyllaDB is making a major architecture shift. We’re moving from vNode replication to tablets – fragments of tables that are distributed independently, enabling dynamic data distribution and extreme elasticity. In this keynote, ScyllaDB co-founder and CTO Avi Kivity explains the reason for this shift, provides a look at the implementation and roadmap, and shares how this shift benefits ScyllaDB users.
Radically Outperforming DynamoDB @ Digital Turbine with SADA and Google CloudScyllaDB
Digital Turbine, the Leading Mobile Growth & Monetization Platform, did the analysis and made the leap from DynamoDB to ScyllaDB Cloud on GCP. Suffice it to say, they stuck the landing. We'll introduce Joseph Shorter, VP, Platform Architecture at DT, who lead the charge for change and can speak first-hand to the performance, reliability, and cost benefits of this move. Miles Ward, CTO @ SADA will help explore what this move looks like behind the scenes, in the Scylla Cloud SaaS platform. We'll walk you through before and after, and what it took to get there (easier than you'd guess I bet!).
CTO Insights: Steering a High-Stakes Database MigrationScyllaDB
In migrating a massive, business-critical database, the Chief Technology Officer's (CTO) perspective is crucial. This endeavor requires meticulous planning, risk assessment, and a structured approach to ensure minimal disruption and maximum data integrity during the transition. The CTO's role involves overseeing technical strategies, evaluating the impact on operations, ensuring data security, and coordinating with relevant teams to execute a seamless migration while mitigating potential risks. The focus is on maintaining continuity, optimising performance, and safeguarding the business's essential data throughout the migration process
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!