Last year, Analytics Week published an overview of the scope and growth of big data. The findings were remarkable: By 2020, for every person in the world, there will be 1.7 megabytes of new data created each second.The total amount of data in the world will reach 44 zettabytes by 2020, expanding from its current volume of 4.4 zettabytes.There are 1.2 trillion searches annually just on Google, averaging out to 40,000 searches per second — reflecting how…
Data lakes are cool, but you don’t have to jump in head-first. It’s easy to start by dipping a toe: Integrating a legacy data warehouse into a data lake leverages the structured systems that have been built over the years while taking advantage of the ever-increasing volume of unstructured data across the organization. A Familiar Structure Data warehouses are familiar. Generally, IT teams know how to work with them. Over the past two decades, companies…
Salesforce is the leading cloud-based CRM software solution that has grown to become the platform of choice for various IT organizations. I have been working with Salesforce for over a decade now, and in all of my Salesforce adventures, I’ve never contributed to a project that did not involve some form of data migration. Now, say you have a medium to large organization, then the data migration becomes a quarterly thing that you just cannot get…
At some point, every enterprise must move their documents from one ECM or system to another. Businesses get acquired, organizations move, and enterprises outgrow the processes that once sustained them. Eventually, the content your enterprise generates will outpace the resources at your disposal—if it hasn’t already—leaving you with a slew of documents that no one can find, extract value from, or even open. Before you can even think about moving your content, you must first…
The Trump administration’s new “Cloud Smart” strategy encourages federal agencies to continue moving data to the cloud. The strategy also notes that data migration planning is an essential element of such moves. “Cloud technology adoption requires that agencies prioritize migration planning, sustainment, and organizational maturity in order to realize the full benefit of these services,” the strategy states. Yet for data migrations to be successful, agency IT teams need to rigorously plan out such migrations, consider their…
Data migration is the process of transferring data from a source system to a target system. It is a core task for any data storage professional. Data migration is important because it is a necessary component to upgrading or consolidating server and storage hardware, or adding data-intensive applications like databases, data warehouses, and data lakes, and large-scale virtualization projects. Data migration may also occur within systems built on HDD or SDD, or between in-house systems and cloud storage. Types of Data…
Big data is what drives most modern businesses, and big data never sleeps. That means data integration and data migration need to be well-established, seamless processes — whether data is migrating from inputs to a data lake, from one repository to another, from a data warehouse to a data mart, or in or through the cloud. Without a competent data migration plan, businesses can run over budget, end up with overwhelming data processes, or find…
With Internet of Things (IoT) networks continuing to add more devices, we explore how to go about developing an effective scaling strategy for IoT. Scaling IoT networks effectively can be easier said than done. While having more devices leads to more connectivity, there is the danger of encountering issues with latency, as well as security. In addition, there is the service that’s being delivered to customers to consider. “From experience, as true scaling starts –…
Whether you intend to upgrade the server or you are looking for options for replacing them, data migration plans are useful in streamlining the process. It is also useful in relocating to the data center, conduction of server maintenance. The data migration plan is recognized to be the initial step of the data migration plan. It is useful in preparing, selecting, transforming, extracting and transferring the data of the correct quality and form. Migration of…
