Oceans of data are generated every day by businesses and enterprises, and all of it must be prioritized, analyzed, and safeguarded with the right architecture, tools, polices, and procedures. TechRepublic provides the resources you need.
Data without an associated backup is only as reliable as the system upon which it is stored — and every system has a finite life span or may be susceptible to malware or hacking efforts. This form from TechRepublic Premium provides a simple method for end users to submit data backup requests. (The Appendix comprises ...
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation came info effect on May 25, 2018. For organizations that need to comply with the stringent data protection rules, TechRepublic Premium is offering a useful resource kit. This kit includes five downloads — a GDPR policy, a compliance checklist, a data protection compliance officer hiring kit, a data ...
The global population of internet and social media users grows each day, which means that the volume of shared data is also on a remarkable rise. Statista forecasts that the amount of data to be created, captured, copied and consumed globally by 2025 will be more than 181 zettabytes. With new capabilities rapidly emerging in ...
Business intelligence and data analytics give tech decision makers a clearer idea of how well their companies are running and whether they’re meeting goals. Because BI incorporates data from across the enterprise — revenue operations, sales, supply chain and logistics — its insight is beneficial in areas such as customer profiling, customer support and market ...
Useful and actionable information is the engine of success that drives the modern business enterprise. Properly collecting, storing and processing business data is what provides the fuel for that success engine. The database administrator is responsible for determining how data will be collected, structured and stored so that it can be accessed and processed when ...
Electronic data is likely to be more prevalent in today’s organizations than physical printed data. Reams’ worth of documents can now be stored on computer hard drives, handheld devices and storage cards smaller than a fingernail. The bulk of many strategic operations depends on this digital information and its safe handling. The purpose of this ...
Organizations must use every available resource to protect against the latest cyberattacks, the persistent nature of advanced threats, as well as the ease with which malware can cripple an entire network. One of the most important — and often overlooked — resources that organizations can tap into to solve these security challenges is data. This ...
Data without an associated backup is only as reliable as the system upon which it is stored — and every system has a finite lifespan or may be susceptible to malware or hacking efforts. This policy from TechRepublic Premium provides guidelines for reliable and secure backups of end user data. It outlines the responsibilities of ...
The EU General Data Protection Regulation is a comprehensive set of rules designed to keep the personal data of all EU citizens collected by any organization, enterprise or business safe from unauthorized access or use. The GDPR went into effect on May 25, 2018, and organizations need to comply. Failure to do so, would be ...
TechRepublic Premium was at Confluent’s Current 2023 event, held in San Jose, California, September 26-27. Our coverage of the event comprises an analysis of data streaming, interviews, the role of stream governance and a look at Apache Flink. From the download: Confluent used the Current 2023 ‘next generation of Kafka Summit’ event in San Jose ...
As worldwide energy needs and concerns about climate change continue to increase, environmentally responsible business practices are critical for the successful future of a company and the markets in which it operates. This IT Data Center Green Energy Policy, from TechRepublic Premium, is intended to meet green standards for IT data center operations, which includes ...
Backup routines are the lifeblood of information technology. Protecting an organization’s data is a computer professional’s highest priority. Whether it’s hackers, disgruntled or confused users, a fire or flood, hardware failure or just thunderstorms threatening the information you’re charged with protecting, a solid backup routine is at least a best practice if not a best ...
In many ways, data has become the primary currency of modern organizations. It doesn’t matter whether you are a large business enterprise, SMB, government or nonprofit, the collection, management, protection and analysis of data is a determining factor in your overall success. This policy from TechRepublic Premium establishes an enterprise-wide framework for categorizing and classifying ...
Modern businesses collect extraordinary amounts of data, so knowing when and why you should deploy solid state drives will continue to be crucial to the development of your IT infrastructure strategy. It is vital that everyone involved in data management, particularly regarding storage, have a clear and complete understanding of the terminology surrounding SSDs. This ...
This policy from TechRepublic Premium will help you implement the backup environment that is appropriate for your company. It factors in onsite, remote and cloud operations and covers issues such as storage capacity, network bandwidth and access controls. From the policy: Defining criticality of data Identifying the criticality of data is a key component in ...