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What is a data architect? Skills, salaries, and how to become a data framework master

CIO Business Intelligence

Data architect role Data architects are senior visionaries who translate business requirements into technology requirements and define data standards and principles, often in support of data or digital transformations. Data architects are frequently part of a data science team and tasked with leading data system projects.

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Big Data - Load Testing the Application

IT Toolbox

Performance analysts gather information related to high transaction volumes, large numbers of users and a full-sized database. The objective is to determine if the application suite and its associated databases can handle large workloads. Load tests give the database administrator

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A DBA's Big Data Wish List

IT Toolbox

Like management information systems, enterprise resource planning and relational database, big data is now a standard part of information technology architecture for most large organizations. Common applications include storage and analysis of customer data, web interactions, machine sensor readings, and much more.

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Mainframe DBAs - Team and Data Management

IT Toolbox

Many database administrators (DBAs) function as a team supporting multiple corporate applications on a variety of hardware platforms using several database management systems (DBMSs). Managers struggle with priorities and must juggle user requirements and deadlines against staff availability and expertise.

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IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development

CTOvision

By Bob Gourley Note: we have been tracking Cloudant in our special reporting on Analytical Tools , Big Data Capabilities , and Cloud Computing. a privately held database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider that enables developers to easily and quickly create next generation mobile and web apps. . . – bg.

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Back to basics: Keys to taking a pragmatic approach to observability

CIO Business Intelligence

Don’t collect more data, collect the right data Today, large enterprises are awash in massive volumes of data points being collected by various monitoring systems. In time, enormous databases have emerged. Invariably, when issues arise, operators don’t know where to start; no one has time to look at all the data captured.

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Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery

All Things Distributed

As I discussed in my re:Invent keynote earlier this month, I am now happy to announce the immediate availability of Amazon RDS Cross Region Read Replicas , which is another important enhancement for our customers using or planning to use multiple AWS Regions to deploy their applications. Cross Region Read Replicas are available for MySQL 5.6