Enterprise IT responsibilities are growing the number of applications, and the amount of data being managed is continuing to grow. The release of the ‘2018 Information Technology Performance Excellence Survey: Behind Every Cloud Transformation, There’s Well-Functioning IT’ attempts to examine IT support groups from the IOUG, Quest and OAUG user communities. These communities are made up…

Enterprise IT responsibilities are growing the number of applications, and the amount of data being managed is continuing to grow. The release of the ‘2018 Information Technology Performance Excellence Survey: Behind Every Cloud Transformation, There’s Well-Functioning IT’ attempts to examine IT support groups from the IOUG, Quest and OAUG user communities. These communities are made up…

This article is part one of a six-part series developed as a collaborative effort between the editors of IOUG SELECT and Big Data Quarterly on 'The Changing Role of the Modern DBA'. 

This article is part one of a six-part series developed as a collaborative effort between the editors of IOUG SELECT and Big Data Quarterly on 'The Changing Role of the Modern DBA'. 

Blockchain or Blockchain as a Service? If you are like me, the use of the aforementioned sentence ender is the correct punctuation mark. To be clear, I didn’t immediately recognize the technology. However, if I said the word Bitcoin (aka cryptocurrency), you would likely recognize the name. Blockchain is one of the driving technologies behind…