Sharing information about what’s happening with the unstructured data in your organization is much more difficult than it might appear. Miscommunication can negatively impact virtually every aspect of your organization, from your IT, storage teams, and app developers – all the way to the business and other end users. However, it is critical to have […] The post The Key to Unstructured Data Management: Communicating About Your Data appeared first on DATAVERSITY ..read more

Running a modern business is only possible with frequent file transfers. Expanding one’s presence in the digital space and changing working habits make the practice even more widespread. While efficient, data transfer can pose risks to security and credibility. Being up to speed on current best practices is critical to a company’s continued data integrity and reputation. […] The post Maximizing Your Enterprise Data Security: The Ultimate Guide to Secure Data Transfer appeared first on DATAVERSITY ..read more

Let’s address the elephant in the room – “shift left” hasn’t had the impact on our software security as many of us expected it to have. While it does have much merit and has influenced security in an indispensable way, I argue that “shift left” should be viewed as a tactic in a larger management […] The post “Shift Left” Isn’t What You Expected   appeared first on DATAVERSITY ..read more

This is part 2 of a two-part article. Find part 1 here. In this section, we discuss how to leverage Data Governance to manage DEI data risk. In part 1 of this article, we identified several best practices for data that chief diversity officers can leverage to support data-driven approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). As […] The post Leveraging Data Governance to Manage Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Data Risk appeared first on DATAVERSITY ..read more

After years spent purchasing and expanding SaaS usage to meet the challenges created by the pandemic, IT teams are now tightening SaaS spend and see growing security risks from shadow SaaS. SaaS is particularly painful for IT to manage. Ownership of these applications is decentralized across the organization and official procurement processes are often skipped, […] The post Is Shadow SaaS a Security Risk? appeared first on DATAVERSITY ..read more

The last few years have demonstrated how critical it is for businesses to maintain agility and make fast, confident decisions to stay ahead. The resulting economic uncertainty and growth of industry-wide trends, including ESG, cloud migration, and the rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning programs – such as OpenAI’s newly launched GPT-3 model and […] The post How Data Integrity Can Maximize Business Value appeared first on DATAVERSITY ..read more

Public cloud spending and adoption are growing fast. Analysts predict that organizations will spend $591.8 billion on cloud infrastructure and services in 2023, up 20.7% from the year before. In fact, according to Forrester, the public cloud market is projected to reach $1 trillion by 2026, with the majority of spend directed to the big four – Amazon Web […] The post Skyrocketing Public Cloud Adoption Is Accelerating Shadow Data Risks appeared first on DATAVERSITY ..read more

As Benjamin Franklin once said, “Nothing is certain except death and taxes.” Add this 21st-century irrefutable fact: The world can’t live without data. With its numbers, characters, facts, and statistics – the operations performed, stored, and analyzed – data has become an irreplaceable facet of daily life.  We use data to identify strengths and weaknesses. It helps […] The post Is Data the Achilles Heel of AI? appeared first on DATAVERSITY ..read more

Between OpenAI’s research release of its language model ChatGPT and Microsoft’s inclusion of an embedded (and still improving) artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot in its Bing search engine, it’s impossible to escape news about the rise of AI. Of course, these new AI tools are simply the most recent customer-facing applications after decades of development across various computing […] The post How Intelligent Enterprise Software Is Transforming Business Processes appeared first on DATAVERSITY ..read more

Companies are spending a lot of money on data and analytics capabilities, creating more and more data products for people inside and outside the company. These products rely on a tangle of data pipelines, each a choreography of software executions transporting data from one place to another. As these pipelines become more complex, it’s important […] The post Data Observability vs. Monitoring vs. Testing appeared first on DATAVERSITY ..read more