We examine the challenges organizations grapple with in the complexities of the modern data stack and look toward a sixth data platform, one assembled from modular, multivendor components. Dbt Labs ...

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 ...

In 2021, Gartner dropped Metadata Management from their Magic Quadrant, replacing it with a Market Guide for Active Metadata Management. On the surface, this may seem like a minor change, but in ...

"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 ...

Metadata isn't like the regular data we know – but the key differences between the two can be hard to figure out. To put it simply, though, metadata is often referred to as data that sorts and ...

Ensuring data quality is an important aspect of data management and these days. DBAs are increasingly being called upon to deal with the quality of the data in their database systems more than ever ...

Metadata can reveal information about a document's origin, authorship, transmission, modification, and use that may not be ...

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. ...

The NSA doesn't have to intercept and read all your messages to know what you're doing -- and neither do many Internet businesses. What I find most remarkable about all the hubbub about the National ...