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Data Mesh: Pushback to Centralized Repositories, Data Lakes, and Data Warehouses

By Dick Weisinger

Data is empowering and is changing the dynamics at many organizations. Greater access to data levels the business hierarchy. Organizations are growing flatter and staff members are being entrusted with greater authority and more decision capability. Data itself though has

Paperless Office: Businesses Retire Printers as Electronic Documents are Used More Frequently

By Dick Weisinger

COVID-19 caused a big downturn in the use of paper in the office. Businesses were forced to operate with many or most workers working from their homes. The result was that much less paper was able to be pushed around

Data Wrangling: Refining Messy and Complex Data

By Dick Weisinger

Data Analytics. Machine Learning. Big Data. These are all in-demand technologies that are built on the heavy use of data. Clean and accurate data is key for all of them to achieve good results, but the process of cleaning data

Data: Organizations Struggle to Keep Pace with Growing Inflows of Data

By Dick Weisinger

Data has become a paradox for many organizations. Surveys show that businesses see great value in acquiring data. Two-thirds say that they aspire to be ‘data-driven’ companies. On one hand these companies say that they need to acquire even more

Containerizing Traditional Databases: Managing Apps with State in Containers

By Dick Weisinger

Containerization is gaining wide acceptance across organizations. Gartner predicts that by 2022, 75 percent of organizations will be using containerized applications in production. Carl Olofoson, vice president at IDC, said that “many databases were not designed to be cloud native,