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7 types of tech debt that could cripple your business

CIO Business Intelligence

Incident response: Firefighting daily issues, responding to major incidents, or performing root cause analysis prevents database administrators from performing more proactive tasks. Options to reduce data management debt include automating tasks, migrating to database as a service (DbaaS) offerings, and archiving older datasets.

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IDG Contributor Network: Thinking of cutting out your database administrator? Think again

Network World

Once upon a time, there was a role known as the database administrator. Back when all data was stored locally, these employees were the keepers of the company database, responsible for making sure all information was accessible and tracking things such as financial information and customer details.

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10-year forecast shows growth in network architect jobs while sysadmin roles shrink

Network World

growth and 12,100 jobs added Network and computer systems administrators: -2.6% growth and 37,200 jobs added Database administrators: 8.2% growth and 6,600 jobs added Database architects: 10.8% decline and 13,400 jobs lost Software developers: 17.9% growth and 56,500 jobs added Information security analysts: 32.7%

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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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20 powerful women shaping the networking industry

Network World

She joined Zuora, a startup that provides billing and subscription management software, scaling it from $30M to $300M in revenue and taking it public in 2018. When joining F5 , she reflected on her career and said, F5s evolution from hardware to software and SaaS mirrors my own professional journey and passion for transformation. >

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Tech hiring slows, more IT jobs lost

Network World

CompTIA found that companies in the tech services and software development sectors added an estimated 4,000 workers, but that was offset by losses across telecommunications, cloud infrastructure, and other related sub-sectors. CompTIA analyzes the U.S. BLS statistics to report on companies in the various tech industries.

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Oracle inks deal with AWS to offer database services

CIO Business Intelligence

This is Oracle’s third partnership with a hyperscaler to offer its database services on the hyperscaler’s infrastructure. Earlier this year, Oracle signed a similar deal with Google to make its database services more widely available.

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