Database management
Financial applications automation – promise is real but needs business nous
The automation of the financial software that lies at the heart of any business & accountancy, budget management, general ledger, payroll, and so on & is a prize many organisations are eyeing up, with machine learning and robotic process automation close to mind. Find out everything you need to know by downloading this PDF E-Guide.
News : Database management
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June 16, 2021
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Jun'21
Databricks taps groundswell in lakehouse adoption
Databricks has been expanding its footprint across the Asia-Pacific region amid growing interest among traditional enterprises and digital native companies in the data lakehouse architecture
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June 07, 2021
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Jun'21
Campaigners plan legal action over NHS data sharing
Privacy coalition aims to force NHS Digital to push back its plans to scrape medical information on millions of patients into a central database
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June 04, 2021
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Jun'21
BCS: Lack of communication over NHS GPDPR ‘astonishing’
The Chartered Institute for IT has warned that millions of people are not being properly informed of NHS Digital plans to harvest their data
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May 27, 2021
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May'21
Loss of 150,000 police records made worse by management failures
The loss of 150,000 records from a number of national policing systems was caused by a human coding error, but made worse by process and management failures
In Depth : Database management
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Europe’s proposed AI regulation falls short on protecting rights
The European Commission’s proposal for artificial intelligence regulation focuses on creating a risk-based, market-led approach replete with self-assessments, transparency procedures and technical standards, but critics warn it falls short of being able to protect people’s fundamental rights and mitigating the technology’s worst abuses Continue Reading
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How computational storage delivers datacentre benefits
Computational storage is an emerging field of IT that features compute processing power closely coupled with storage. We look at what it can be used for Continue Reading
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Data warehouse storage: Has cloud made on-premise obsolete?
There once was no alternative to building a data warehouse on-premise, but with cloud providers targeting analytics, building data warehouses on-site is looking obsolete Continue Reading
Blog Posts : Database management
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Why database admins should embrace automation
There are certain functions in database administration, that are good candidates for automation. These are the nuts and bolts of the job - like how to partition the storage, what happens if a disk ... Continue Reading
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Amazon Neptune: a shot in the arm for the graph database?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced its entry to the graph database market at its AWS reINVENT conference in Seattle in November last year. It was a notable announcement for a couple of reasons: it ... Continue Reading
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Einstein, Leonardo, Coleman, ClAIre … 18c: what’s in a name?
Oracle launched what it has described as the “world’s first autonomous database” at OpenWorld this week in San Francisco. CTO Thomas Kurian said, in the press conference following his keynote at ... Continue Reading
Opinion : Database management
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Coronavirus and privacy – finding the middle ground
Data collection has a role to play in fighting the deadly Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak, but governments need to be accountable for how it is used Continue Reading
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The real Oracle cloud strategy that may work vs. AWS and Azure
Oracle's database software is at the heart of its efforts to move users to its cloud. And that strategy might work, despite Oracle's inauspicious standing in the cloud now. Continue Reading
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Microsoft technology refresh touches SQL Server, integration tooling
Microsoft is at work on a delicate technology refresh affecting database tuning and architecture, as well as data integration and business intelligence. Continue Reading
Videos : Database management
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Hadoop's run into enterprise cloud
Free enterprise cloud software from Hadoop is causing a lot of buzz in the market, and the economics of the public cloud are leading customers to more mid-sized cloud providers.