Informatica Perspectives

Informatica 9.5 for Big Data Challenge #2: Social

Judy Ko — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:00:47 +0000

Social networking is becoming inescapable. It has become mainstream faster than almost anyone could have predicted (other than perhaps Mark Zuckerberg.) Full disclosure: I hardly ever use Facebook. Perhaps as a working mom with two young children, keeping up with …
Continue reading »

Big Data, Big Problems: Leveraging Informatica 9.5 to Build an Effective Data Governance Strategy to Meet the Big Data Challenge

Guest Author — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:07:38 +0000

By: Chris Cingrani, Informatica DQ & MDM Practice Lead, Data Management Practice at SSG Ltd., www.ssglimited.com Big data is something that I am continually asked about by clients, as the subject continues to gain significant press. While discussing this topic, …
Continue reading »

Balancing Opportunity and Risk in Big Data

John Haddad — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:12:40 +0000

Informatica conducted a recent big data survey of 600 IT and business professionals in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. The results found in the report entitled: “Balancing Opportunity and Risk in Big Data – A Survey of Enterprise …
Continue reading »

Informatica 9.5 for Big Data Challenge #1: Cloud

Judy Ko — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:00:25 +0000

Just five years ago, there was a perception held by many in our industry that the world of data for enterprises was simplifying. This was in large part due to the wave of consolidation among application vendors. With SAP and …
Continue reading »

A Return to Big Data

Julie Lockner — Tue, 15 May 2012 00:26:56 +0000

Quite a bit has happened on the topic of big data since my last post on Informatica Perspectives almost one and a half years ago. I have spent a career working with organizations on how to get control over their …
Continue reading »

Data Prefetching and Caching

David Loshin — Mon, 14 May 2012 07:16:04 +0000

Treating Big Data Performance Woes with the Data Replication Cure Blog Series – Part 3 OK, so in our last two discussions, we looked at the memory bottleneck and how even in high performance environments, there are still going to …
Continue reading »

Who Wants to Clean Out the Fridge on Friday Night?

Jo Stoner — Fri, 11 May 2012 06:35:49 +0000

A while ago I wrote a piece about our company’s ‘green’ initiatives. Amongst the many programs we are adopting to be more environmentally conscious, one was to achieve the Energy Star Rating certification for our headquarters building in Redwood City, …
Continue reading »

Do You Know Where Your Existing Database Security Solutions Are Failing?

Karen Hsu — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:22:52 +0000

Recently, Oracle announced that its latest April critical patch update does not address the TNS Poison vulnerability uncovered by a researcher 4 years ago. In addition to this vulnerability from an attacker, organizations face data breaches from internal negligence and …
Continue reading »

Top 10 Similarities Shared By Master Data Management (MDM) Customers

Jakki Geiger — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:35:06 +0000

What do our master data management(MDM) customers have in common? Regardless of industry, use case, region, or the type of information they are mastering, I’ve identified 10 key factors they have in common. 1) Company size is $500M+ 2) Experiencing …
Continue reading »

Some Thoughts about Data Proximity for Big Data Calculations – Part 2

David Loshin — Mon, 07 May 2012 08:40:24 +0000

Treating Big Data Performance Woes with the Data Replication Cure Blog Series – Part 2 In my last posting, I suggested that the primary bottleneck for performance computing of any type, including big data applications, is the latency associated with …
Continue reading »