The retirement of Technical Debt has never been more relevant. The great recession, and, more recently, the COVID-19 pandemic have significantly dampened the ability and willingness of enterprises to address an ever-growing amount of Technical Debt. Too often,...
Advanced Analytics
Examining the Past, Present, and Future of Data Warehousing and Analytics
Since I started my career about 25 years ago, data warehousing and the analytics tools it supports have come a long way. From the early days of relational database management systems (RDBMS) to the launch of high-performance analytics appliances and the emergence of...
From Guardium Appliances to a Security Data Science Platform – A POC Using Guardium Insights and Jupyter Lab
Guardium Insights 2.5 was released at the end of last year. It is a great new version of an exciting product from the Guardium team at IBM. We got it up and running over the holidays and started playing around with it. This article is a result of one of those...
Netezza – How Easy Do We Have It?
When you read my earlier blog, “Netezza is making a comeback”, from this blog series, did you think to yourself, “Where did it go? I never left.” If you have ever had a chance to use Netezza in your data estate for warehousing, high-performance INZA push down...
Unlock More Value from Institutional Knowledge with Deep Search AI
Every enterprise has a wealth of institutional knowledge about their customers, operations, and business model. A lot of this valuable information is stored in a variety of formats, such as PDFs, images, diagrams, and videos. In the digital sense, these documents...
The Only Constant in Life Is Change, The Only Constant in Business is Transformation
We’ve all heard the old adage, “The only constant in life is change.” Yet, no matter how cliché this may seem, I’ve realized throughout my career, this is reality. I’ve always been impressed with how both the company I work for and the companies I work with deal...
Supporting a High-Value Automation Strategy with the Red Hat Management Portfolio
For today’s businesses, competition is everywhere. How effectively an organization’s IT infrastructure supports its business strategy and core operations is a crucial factor in its success. Maintaining a competitive edge means enabling speed to market, agility, and...
Choosing Smarter Analysis Over Routine Reports Can Improve Security Intelligence
You’re collecting activity monitoring data. Are you making the most of it? As security systems in general, and database monitoring tools specifically, mature and become more sophisticated,...