In the first century, Greek professor Heron of Alexandria created a coin-operated machine to dispense holy water. Back then, visitors to the city temples took more holy water than they paid for. His ...

Reliable, secure, self-service access to trustworthy, clean data is at the center of alleviating the data teams burdened by data requests. While self-service data access is straightforward in theory, ...

Joel Snyder, Ph.D., is a senior IT consultant with 30 years of practice. An internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, messaging and networks, Dr. Snyder is a popular speaker and ...

There is a shortage of data scientists. In the United States, some estimates are that there are only enough qualified data scientists to fill 50% of the open data science jobs. This large gap is ...

Cary Breese, CEO, and Sumeet Sheokand, CTO, of GenieDB came by to introduce me to their company and their Database as a Service offering. Their demo of a distributed database running in three ...

While people often think of the Internet as an immaterial object, the data that makes up the Internet is actually stored at a very physical location: data servers. Businesses sometimes operate their ...