I had a very nice moment of closure at Oracle OpenWorld a few weeks ago on a book collaboration with two senior Oracle technical managers—Tom Laszewski and Jason Williamson. Tom worked for me at Oracle in the mid-90s in Alliances Technical Services, and still runs a big portion of that group today (nice how that has endured for so long). In his spare time, Tom writes technical books. At Oracle OpenWorld, we did a press interview announcing the new book, which was a wonderful way to celebrate our collaboration.
A very timely report just came out by Gartner providing an update on the state of the database archiving market, with five-year growth projections. It resonates very well with what we are observing in our EDM practice. Highlights:
In our previous post, we talked about the growing need for data privacy solutions. We looked at the challenges presented by production database proliferation and discussed how IBM Optim Data Privacy and IBM Optim Test Data can work together to apply data privacy rules even as you’re subsetting data for testing.
Is it just me, or are there a lot more data breaches in the news these days?
I don’t think it’s my imagination – and some of the breaches are massive. For example, in April 2008, a laptop owned by the Irish Blood Transfusion Board (IBTS) was stolen. That one “little” theft exposed the personal data of 170,000 people who had used the transfusion service.
Relieving the Application Testing Bottleneck
If you’re working at a midsized or large company, you probably have dozens of applications in production. Your commercial applications typically get upgraded at least once per year. Your custom applications undergo ongoing enhancement by your developers.