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How DBAs can take on a more strategic role

CIO Business Intelligence

Not that long ago, database administrators (DBAs) were perceived as purely technical experts. While they played a critical enterprise role, it was primarily behind-the-scenes to ensure the integrity, security, and availability of the database. Today, DBAs are being pulled into the limelight. 1 Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S.

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Take control of your Oracle unlimited licensing agreement

CIO Business Intelligence

We were founded on the radical idea that you—not software vendors or resource constraints—should be in charge of your IT. When was your last database health check?

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Exerting Fine Grain Control Over Your Cloud Resources - All Things.

All Things Distributed

Exerting Fine Grain Control Over Your Cloud Resources. I am thrilled that now both Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS support resource-level permissions. As customers move increasing amounts of compute and database workloads over to AWS, they have expressed an increased desire for finer grain control over their underlying resources.

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20 powerful women shaping the networking industry

Network World

During her tenure, the company successfully made the transition from simple anti-virus software to a broad, AI-driven cybersecurity platform that protects endpoints, cloud, and enterprise resources. Fun fact: She is the head of the Women at IBM Community and started the companys Womens Business Resource Group. billion range.

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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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SQL -- To Tune or Not To Tune

IT Toolbox

Database administrators tend to think of SQL tuning as necessary, important, even critical. The reality is that the savings realized by tuning SQL, usually manifested in saved CPU time and decreases in elapsed times, may offset the costs incurred in time and resources. My guess is 25 years or

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IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development

CTOvision

Delivered as a managed cloud service, Cloudant technology ensures that app developers no longer need to be experts in database management, while database administrators (DBA) can focus on higher value tasks beyond day-to-day administration.

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