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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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Oracle’s ATP Raises The Bar On Database Administration

Forrester IT

Similar to ADW, Oracle’s ATP service focuses on self-tuning, self-securing and self-managing but for OLTP databases. An important part of its autonomous database strategy is its Exadata appliance, which is an scale-out optimized database system. While Oracle has some […].

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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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What is a CTO? The exec who sets tech strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

But while the CIO is tasked with overseeing the IT department, staff, and infrastructure to support everyday operations and working with business leaders to align IT with business goals, the CTO is responsible for the overall technology strategy. Indeed lists a number of tasks a CTO might be expected to carry out.

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Tech hiring slows, more IT jobs lost

Network World

Employers continue to weigh a range of factors in shorter term tech hiring while eyeing longer term growth strategies.” Skilled talent is still in high demand, so it’s crucial to prioritize retention strategies to keep your best employees on board.” in July, slightly lower than the national unemployment rate of 4.3%.

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20 powerful women shaping the networking industry

Network World

She started out as senior director of engineering and climbed the ranks to excel at numerous positions, including senior vice president and general manager of Ciscos Cloud, Compute, and IoT business, chief strategy officer, and general manager of applications. In her own words: She offered advice in three areas: 1.

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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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