Recent Posts by Sherry Tiao

There are so many buzzwords these days regarding data management. Data lakes, data warehouses, and databases – what are they? In this article, we’ll walk through them and cover the definitions, the key differences, and what we see for the future.  Start building your own data lake with a free trial Data Lake Definition If you want full, in-depth information, you can read our article called, “What’s a Data Lake?” But here we can tell you, “A data lake is a place to store your...

When it comes to taking a trained machine learning model and putting it into operational use at the company, TDWI found that it took 14 percent of respondents over 9 months for just that step alone. But for more than 20 percent, that same step took only a few days to a few weeks. There are several actions you can take to ensure that you'll be part of the fast 20 percent, not the slower 14 percent. One of them, of course, involves using your database for machine learning. What...

Netflix’s famous algorithm challenge awarded a million dollars to the best algorithm for predicting user ratings for films. But did you know that the winning algorithm was never implemented into a functional model? Netflix reported that the results of the algorithm just didn’t seem to justify the engineering effort needed to bring them to a production environment. That’s one of the big problems with machine learning. At your company, you can create the most elegant...

Here are some interesting facts that we’ve recently uncovered about cloud database security in the Oracle and KPMG Cloud Threat Report 2019: 73 percent of respondents feel the public cloud is more secure than what they can deliver in their own data center and are moving to the cloud 71 percent of organizations indicated that a majority of this cloud data is sensitive—up from 50% last year 30% cited the inability of existing network security controls to provide visibility into...

With the release of 18c and the Autonomous Database, 2018 has been an incredible year for the database.  So what's happening in 2019? We've gathered together our database predictions and in this article, we're sharing five. Download the Full Database Predictions Ebook 1. Database Maintenance Automation Will Accelerate Many routine database management tasks have already been automated in the last few years. In future years, traditional, on-premises databases will be competing...

Effective organizations want access to their data, fast, and they want it readily available for analytics. That's what makes the Autonomous Data Warehouse such a great fit for businesses. It abstracts away the complexities of managing and maintaining a data warehouse while still making it easy for business analysts to sift through and analyze potentially millions of records. Sign up today for your free data warehouse trial This enables businesses to spend more time and...