
Tag: Data Governance
Quest Software Buys Data Manager Erwin
Quest Software has acquired big data management specialist Erwin Inc., upgrading the buyer’s data toolset aimed at application deployment with regulatory compliance. Quest, Aliso Viejo, Calif., said Tuesday (Jan. 5) Read more…
Tackling Data Governance in a Multi-Cloud DW World
Microsoft Azure Synapse is the top destination for customers adopting cloud data warehouse over the next 12 to 24 months, followed by Databricks and Amazon Redshift, according to a new data engineering study released tod Read more…
ML Deployment Woes Persist
Despite greater spending on staffing and use cases, investors in machine learning have so far reaped few returns as they struggle with life cycle issues related to data governance, security and auditing requirements. Read more…
Cloudera CEO: Enterprise Data Cloud Vision Nearly Complete
The hard work may be paying off for Cloudera, the embattled former Hadoop distributor that’s been pivoting to an enterprise data cloud strategy for the past year-and-a-half. With the delivery of an on-prem version of i Read more…
From Data Chaos to Data Governance to Mitigate Risks and Harness Results
Knowing what data you have and where it lives is complicated. You need to create and sustain an enterprise-wide view of and easy access to underlying metadata, but that’s a tall order with numerous data types and d Read more…
Making it Real: Effective Data Governance in the Age of AI
Customer trust is not only gained with delightful service offerings but also by ensuring that their data is safe. This is one of the key factors why organizations across the globe are now considering data security, compl Read more…
Data Culture ‘Disconnect’ Identified in New Index
What does it take to succeed with data and analytics? Establishing a solid data culture, for starters, is often cited as a common characteristic among organizations that are successful with data and analytics. With that Read more…
For ‘Open Banking,’ Data is a Person
The pandemic has accelerated the shift to digital financial services such as “open banking.” That has resulted in increased fraud, up an estimated 11 percent since the novel coronavirus hit. What’s more, industr Read more…
Calls for ‘Data Responsibility’ Grow
A consumer backlash against misuse of personal data and the growing number of corporate data breaches are fueling calls for companies to institute “data responsibility” frameworks that comply with evolving regulation Read more…
Cassandra Gets Monitoring, Performance Upgrades
The latest beta release of the Apache Cassandra is designed to hit the ground running as the NoSQL database moves steadily to the cloud to provide managed services in production deployments. Cassandra 4.0 released on Read more…
For Data Lovers, COVID-19 Is the Best, Worst of Times
COVID-19 has generated its share of data. Never before have we been witness to a global pandemic with such an arsenal of data collection and analytics tools at our disposal. But depending on where you sit, the explosion Read more…
COVID-19 Has a Data Governance Problem
The COVID-19 pandemic has put many of the world’s activities at a stand-still. Scientists and government officials have been working furiously behind the scenes to forecast the spread and growth of the virus since the Read more…
Google Enters Data Catalog Business, Updates BigQuery
Google today rolled out a data catalog that will eventually give customers visibility into all of their data assets in the Google Cloud and beyond. It also bolstered BigQuery with support for materialized views and a new Read more…
How Badly Will COVID-19 Hurt the Data Privacy Movement?
Before COVID-19 swept into our lives, citizens of the United States were grappling with another major issue: coming to grips with our data rights. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect, and similar Read more…
Coming to Grips with CCPA
By now you’re aware the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has bestowed upon residents of the state certain unalienable rights regarding their personal information. While heralded as progress for consumers, these r Read more…
Syncsort Doubles Down on Data Quality with Pitney Bowes Buy
Here’s a stat to ponder: With its $700-million acquisition of Pitney Bowes' software and data business now complete, Syncsort becomes the second biggest vendor in the data quality space, per 2018 figures from IDC. But Read more…
CCPA: Business Threat or Opportunity?
In less than two months, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will go into effect, giving consumers in the state expansive new powers over their data. While the new law isn't entirely nailed down, experts say it wi Read more…
Enterprise-Wide Data Governance through Governed Global Catalogs
In our previous story, we asserted that consumer data, arguably today’s most valuable asset, must be of good quality and be protected by safeguards to comply with privacy regulations. We demonstrated how master data ma Read more…
U.S. Data Privacy Bill Would Jail Offenders
Proposed U.S. data privacy legislation would impose penalties stiffer than current European rules while giving American consumers a “one-click” option to block companies from selling or sharing their personal informa Read more…
Price Tag for CCPA Compliance: $55B
Data privacy doesn’t come cheap. According to a regulatory assessment released by the state attorney general, the California Consumer Privacy Act will hit businesses with upwards of $55 billion in initial compliance Read more…