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The Database Administrator in the Era of Big Data

IT Toolbox

Many IT enterprises are starting pilot projects to implement big data solutions. As a DBA, are you ready to support these efforts, and integrate them into your current architecture, processes, and standards? Where Are You Now? Many DBAs consider themselves already supporting a big data environment. Table sizes in the hundred

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

CIO Business Intelligence

The data architect is responsible for visualizing and designing an organization’s enterprise data management framework. Data architecture is a complex and varied field and different organizations and industries have unique needs when it comes to their data architects.

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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. As a database administrator, , I have the following items

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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions

CIO Business Intelligence

The CCA allows overarching enterprise functions and IT shared services to be assessed separately from the business unit’s products/applications that require PCI security compliance. In practice, IT architectural patterns give architects the building blocks to design any IT solution.

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Black CIO hopefuls look to level up

CIO Business Intelligence

As he points out, enterprise IT was just at its nascent stages. And so, after working briefly in two non-tech positions (where he still wound up doing some database administration and code creation), Anderson officially moved into IT. Dane Bamburry, senior director of enterprise architecture, Cox Enterprises Cox Enterprises.

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Microsoft secures your place in the world of business

Dataconomy

Network architects design and plan network architectures. Database administration MCSA and MCSE certifications can lead to roles in database administration, such as database administrator, database designer, or data architect. Database administrators manage and maintain databases.

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Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery

All Things Distributed

In a similar scenario here in the United States, Milind Borate, the CTO of Druva, an enterprise backup company using AWS told me that after hurricane Sandy, he got an enormous amount of interest from his customers in the North Eastern US region to replicate their data to other parts of the US for Disaster Recovery.