John Goodson is a JDBC Expert Panel Member and VP of Research and Development at DataDirect Technologies. Check out his Tech Talk on TheServerSide.com, where he discusses Database Access Technologies.

You, as a decision maker or implementer, are frequently bombarded with the message that the data in your organization is its lifeblood. In the modern digital age, that data has immense value to your ...

Actian, the data and AI division of HCLSoftware, today announced the Actian Data Steward Agent, a new AI agent embedded in the Actian Data Intelligence Platform to deliver a governed semantic layer ...

When business leaders think about artificial intelligence, they often focus on models, platforms and compute capacity. That focus is understandable. AI has quickly become a board‑level mandate, tied ...

"Metadata" is one of those techy buzzwords you'll frequently hear in the discourse surrounding internet privacy, storage, and social media. There's an array of applications of metadata — a few of ...

Last year, hackers broke into AT&T’s customer database, as documented in a report by the Mozilla Foundation, grabbing the phone records of almost all current and former customers—73 million in total. ...

Keeping track of all your data -- where it's been, where it's going, who accesses it, and what they do with it -- is neither fun nor exciting. But it is a necessary substrate for holistic data ...

With a combined market value of around $150 billion, Snowflake and Databricks have divergent visions on how to get customers' analytics and machine learning tools to their data, which is often spread ...

In the process of gathering data for secondhand use, such as data warehouses and their many variants, organizations picked and chose pieces of data that fit their idea of what was needed to support ...