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Reading Time: 3 minutes Today, the most innovative and successful organizations leverage data to increase revenue, minimize expenses, and deliver products and services that meet the needs of their customers. To be truly “data-driven,” an organization must view data as more than a byproduct…
Reading Time: 2 minutes In today’s increasingly fractured data environment, data is dispersed across multiple on-premise and cloud environments. In such scenarios, it is unreasonable to believe that all of an organization’s data will be stored in a single repository. With this now being…
Reading Time: 5 minutes We’ve all heard the common expressions of the form “thing A is the new thing B.” Often spoken in a whimsical tone, this expression is meant to denote that “thing B” is being replaced in usage and popularity by “thing…
Reading Time: 4 minutes There is a common saying in entrepreneurial circles that goes, “During a gold rush, sell shovels.” The origin of this saying dates back to the California Gold Rush of the mid 1800s, in which thousands of gold prospectors across the…
Reading Time: 6 minutes Ok, forgive the hyperbole in the title since data virtualization doesn’t actually have magic powers to keep you safe from getting ticketed by the police. However, in one specific series of incidents that I recently encountered which did involve getting…
Reading Time: 3 minutes In the ever-so-cyclical oil and gas industry, long gone are the good ol’ days of $100/barrel and partying like it’s 2008. At the most recent industry peak in June of 2008, featuring oil prices north of $150/barrel, energy companies directed…
