Cloud Native Application Platforms – Structured and Unstructured

The Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) market is making a resurgence, and two architectural models are beginning to emerge. Does one better align to Enterprise vs. Web-Scale companies for Cloud Native applications?

Systems of Intelligence Are Driving Database Proliferation: Part 3 – "Soft" Issues

Enterprises where the central IT organization has sufficient control over all application development activities shouldn’t completely shut down use of new, specialized databases. At the same time, departments that can fly under the radar of central IT shouldn’t completely avoid them.

The key to maintaining data as an asset from distributed application development activity requires threading a needle. IT and the departmental developers need to agree on a common set of data that the organization needs for regulatory requirements, for performance analysis, and any other categories they agree are necessary. That way each group can operate semi-autonomously but the critical, common data still gets collected and stays organized.

Systems of Intelligence Are Driving Database Proliferation: Part 3 – “Soft” Issues

Enterprises where the central IT organization has sufficient control over all application development activities shouldn’t completely shut down use of new, specialized databases. At the same time, departments that can fly under the radar of central IT shouldn’t completely avoid them.

The key to maintaining data as an asset from distributed application development activity requires threading a needle. IT and the departmental developers need to agree on a common set of data that the organization needs for regulatory requirements, for performance analysis, and any other categories they agree are necessary. That way each group can operate semi-autonomously but the critical, common data still gets collected and stays organized.