Is Database-as-a-Service Right for Your Company?

According to recent research, Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is projected to grow at almost 90% year over year, to about $2 billion by 2016. The key drivers, as you might expect, are costs and time saved. From SMBs to multinationals, organizations are moving Oracle databases to the cloud in droves. Actually, there are two ways to run […]

Compliance 101 for Oracle DBAs

Regulatory compliance issues are top-of-mind for today’s senior executives. New laws and industry regulations are changing how organizations acquire, store, manage, retain and dispose of data. Every Oracle DBA should be aware of these changes because of their sweeping impacts on the DBA job role. Compliance goes hand-in-hand with security because regulations often mandate that […]

The High Cost of Bad Data—And How To Avoid Paying It

How much is bad data costing your organization? Data is only useful if it is timely, relevant and reliable. Incorrect, redundant and incomplete data introduces risks that negatively impact business operations and skew business analytics/decision-making. Poor data quality also impacts information security and compliance programs. And as businesses amass more and more data, just the […]

Anatomy of a Database Security Assessment

Data security is not a “set it and forget it” condition—it’s highly dynamic, changing as your environment evolves, new threats appear and new vulnerabilities are introduced. And as the recent rash of high-profile breaches in retail databases illustrate, securing your databases is at least as important as securing other parts of your infrastructure. The end […]

Top Oracle Database Security Threats Come from the Inside

Your Oracle databases contain some of your company’s most valuable assets: financial data, customer data, intellectual property, corporate secrets and so on. That means they’ll be among the top targets of cybercriminals—both outside and inside the firewall. The fact that they sit behind your network doesn’t mean your Oracle databases aren’t vulnerable. And with the […]

Should You Outsource Oracle Database Patching and Upgrades?

Upgrades and patches are a primary cause of planned downtime for Oracle databases and the applications that rely on them. Therefore, you need to have a strategy and process for your Oracle database upgrades that minimizes business disruption but does not postpone these essential tasks. Waiting to perform upgrades is likely to increase costs and […]

3 Oracle DBA Strategic Responsibilities to Outsource for Maximum Business Value

Many organizations have limited their Oracle DBA outsourcing to tactical/operational functions like monitoring, backup and patching. But the changing technology landscape is transforming the DBA role and requiring greater expertise. Today’s enterprise data stores are increasingly massive and architecturally complex. They must support e-commerce and other critical applications that are web-based and demand continuous availability, […]

Is Your Oracle DBA a Big Data DBA? 3 Key Skills Can Help.

Does your organization have key Oracle DBA skills that can help you to derive value from big data? And what is “big data” anyhow? Does it just relate to big (like petabyte-sized) databases? Or is there more to it? Besides being simply “big,” big data has two other key attributes: It can also include a […]

Financial Services Spotlight: Risk Data Aggregation and Risk Reporting

The finance, risk and compliance departments of any financial services firm all need fast and comprehensive access to business data in order to measure performance, manage risk and report to regulators and clients. But each department needs a specific view, whether strategic, operational or a combination of the two. Risk data aggregation in particular has […]

MySQL Fabric: The Best of NoSQL and Relational Databases

Oracle Corp. is currently the world’s second-largest software vendor—and it isn’t going to let a little thing like unstructured data stand in its way. With the recent release of its MySQL Fabric technology, which is meant to meet the demands of cloud- and web-based applications, Oracle is positioning itself to dominate the big data landscape. […]