Recent Posts by Nancy Swanson

The digitalization of the music industry through steaming services has driven massive change and exponential data growth. Music production, consumption, and royalty distribution have all changed, creating new challenges for copyright administration and licensing processing. To address these challenges, ICE provides a flexible suite of services for music publishers to ensure that composers and songwriters are compensated accurately and fairly for use of their works. ICE is the...

As the first Texas public institution of higher education, Texas A&M has the second largest student body in the United States and is known for a set of core values: excellence, integrity, leadership, loyalty, respect, and selfless service. Whether you are faculty and staff, or current and former students, "Aggie Pride" is rooted in history and tradition, much like the university itself. Recently I had the opportunity to speak with Leonarda Horvat, Director of...

As existing hardware was close to end-of-life, Vincent Arnal CIO of Lalux needed to consider the best options for running 40+ Oracle Databases. Their big challenges and opportunities were cybersecurity and industry standard regulations. "We were dealing with Solvency 2, Cloud Guidelines IT Governance, GDPR, and more. Staying compliant with these rules consume an important part of the budget and workload at the expense of innovation projects. However, a generation of new...

Ranked as one of the world’s top 100 universities, McMaster University is a research-focused student-centered institution dedicated to creating a brighter world through the art and science of discovery. As McMaster continues to grow, they lean heavily on their reputation for research, and student-centered, experiential education to help make their university attractive. "We need to make sure our students are successful and provide them with the best experience possible. Keeping...

What is Exadata Smart Scan? To answer that, let's first look at how a traditional data center operates. The database system consists of three components or layers: compute, storage, and network. Compute layer: It houses the servers that process data requests from users and returns results back to them. It makes up the back-end system of user-facing applications. Say you’re trying to purchase an airline ticket on an online booking app. The application sends a request to the...

IDC predicts that by 2025, the world will produce 175 ZB of data, up from about 33 ZB at the end of last year. That’s a staggering growth rate of 61 percent. IDC Senior VP David Reinsel explains that one zettabyte equals a trillion gigabytes. If you multiply that by 175, you realize that’s an almost incomprehensible amount of data.   But the only data that really matters is your business’ data. Your business doesn’t run without it. It also represents a big chunk of your IT...

The future of data is in the cloud. But for organizations that must keep at least some of their data behind a firewall for business, regulatory, or network latency requirements, migrating this critical data to the public cloud is not an option. Introduced two years ago, Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is designed to help these organizations easily move business critical database workloads to a cloud architecture and remove the obstacles to cloud adoption while still keeping...

When Oracle announced the release of its Autonomous Database in 2018, DBAs had to wonder how it would change their jobs. Using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies, the Autonomous Database handles patching, upgrades, and tuning; manages its own security needs; and can perform repairs on itself, eliminating human error in the process. What’s left for a DBA to do? Well, the fun stuff: As automation absorbs mundane tasks such as tuning, backups,...

By Harald Kehl, VP, Cognizant                                                                                                                                              Businesses are discovering infrastructure as a service (IaaS) as a catalyst for digital transformation, accelerated application development, and increased customer engagement through mobile apps and social interactions. Gartner forecasts that IaaS spending will grow 27.6% in 2019 to reach nearly $40 billion,...