Just like oil is used to power vehicles, airplanes and machines, data is used to power most of the transformative technology we see today i.e. artificial intelligence, automation, and advanced predictive analytics. Refining or transforming both data and oil makes it more valuable to the consumer, but does that make data the new oil? How […]
Demand for ‘data professionals’ of all stripes continues to grow at a seemingly insatiable rate. The trend is now pervasive across almost any industry, and any department or any individual role within. The mainstream has nearly universally embraced the current aspiration standard in strategic thinking and culture – to be data-driven. Organizations are clearly striving […]
Over the last decade, adoption of Cloud Computing, and SaaS in particular, has become a mainstream IT strategy for large corporations. The benefits of SaaS is well known and can readily be quantified. The risks, however, are more difficult to quantify and measure. Compound that with multiple SaaS vendors employed by a typical large corporation, […]
As organizations across the world adopt IT infrastructure to conduct their operations, they keep becoming more and more data centred. What this means is that the amount of data they use rises exponentially. This includes the organizations’ own transactional data and their users’ data collected over the span of years. Protecting these huge chunks of […]