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What is a data architect? Skills, salaries, and how to become a data framework master

CIO Business Intelligence

The data architect also “provides a standard common business vocabulary, expresses strategic requirements, outlines high-level integrated designs to meet those requirements, and aligns with enterprise strategy and related business architecture,” according to DAMA International’s Data Management Body of Knowledge.

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The Database Administrator in the Era of Big Data

IT Toolbox

As a DBA, are you ready to support these efforts, and integrate them into your current architecture, processes, and standards? Many IT enterprises are starting pilot projects to implement big data solutions. Where Are You Now? Many DBAs consider themselves already supporting a big data environment. Table sizes in the hundred

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CIOs take note: Platform engineering teams are the future core of IT orgs

CIO Business Intelligence

They may also ensure consistency in terms of processes, architecture, security, and technical governance. The core roles in a platform engineering team range from infrastructure engineers, software developers, and DevOps tool engineers, to database administrators, quality assurance, API and security engineers, and product architects.

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A DBA's Big Data Wish List

IT Toolbox

Like management information systems, enterprise resource planning and relational database, big data is now a standard part of information technology architecture for most large organizations. As a database administrator, , I have the following items

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Black CIO hopefuls look to level up

CIO Business Intelligence

And so, after working briefly in two non-tech positions (where he still wound up doing some database administration and code creation), Anderson officially moved into IT. Dane Bamburry, senior director of enterprise architecture at Cox Enterprises, has followed a path to the top of IT similar to Anderson’s.

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Amazon Aurora ascendant: How we designed a cloud-native relational database

All Things Distributed

This is not to say that a system administrator necessarily enjoys dealing with relational databases. For decades, managing a relational database has been a high-skill, labor-intensive task. It's a task that requires the undivided attention of dedicated system and database administrators.

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Amazon Aurora ascendant: How we designed a cloud-native relational database

All Things Distributed

For decades, managing a relational database has been a high-skill, labor-intensive task. It's a task that requires the undivided attention of dedicated system and database administrators. These are hard problems, and solving them requires breaking away from old-guard relational database architectures.