May 21, 2012
The Gene Ontology database is essentially a tool that those involved in the field of molecular and cellular biology utilize in order to both obtain information as well as share it amongst peers in an open community. The database located at http://www.geneontology.org/ contains an organized structure of genetic vocabulary, classifications, and information for those involved [...]
By Michael Vuong Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: Biology, Cellular, Database, Genes, Genetics, Molecular, MySQL
May 21, 2012
The article I chose for this week is “Wireless Tech Makes Health Care Security a ‘Major Concern’” by Antone Gonsalves. The article addresses that medical equipment has advanced so much so fast, that the security that protects those new technologies has lagged. Gonsalves points out that “While the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates the [...]
By DavidLi Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Ethics and Information Security, Networks, Telecom and Mobile Technology
May 20, 2012
For this week, I found an article on ProQuest titled ” Database Administrator”. This article gives you a good idea on what a database administrator does. DBA’s are responsible for storing, managing, and organizing data. As a DBA you work with software and find ways to do all this. Other tasks that must be performed [...]
By Abel Ramirez Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: Administrator, Career, Database, DBA
May 20, 2012
The authors talk about the growing interest in facial recognition databases and how they feel the databases currently being studied by researchers do not mimic real world scenarios. Researchers should take into account that lighting may not be ideal for a clear image, or that the subject may be moving or looking in a direction [...]
By jenniferrun Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: Database Design, facial recognition
May 20, 2012
The article is called the High Performance Database Processing. Since databases are growing at a very rapid rate, the sizes of the databases in the future are going to be unmanageable when it comes to processing. With large volume of data, sequential processing is not going to be efficient. The article gives an example of [...]
By David Aslanyan Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: cloud databases, data partitioning, grid databases, parallel databases, parallel query processing
May 20, 2012
In this article, the author talks about how it could make things much easier if there was one big database for the music industry. Currently there are several databases for music, and it is causing a lot of trouble. The author mentions how the copy right issue is so complicated because there are several databases. [...]
By hoyoungchung Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305)
May 20, 2012
In the article, the author discusses how the modern database often extends beyond a few hundred entities; modern day companies regularly are wading through terabytes of information, trying to drag useful & meaningful context out of massive loads of information. Several massive problems are brought up – searching through the data is tedious and yields [...]
By Tyler Kleizo Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: Data collection, Data Integrity, Database Design, database management, database management system, SQL
May 20, 2012
The Article by Paul Ian “Top 15 Cloud Storage Tips and Tasks” was a great article which listed several types of uses and purposes for Cloud Computing. It listed many different uses for cloud computing and how they can be utilized for your everyday life. Cloud computing is a tool that is very useful for [...]
By JonathanNikeli Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: Cloud Computing, Database, Dropbox, Tips and Tricks
May 20, 2012
Personalization has come to the forefront in building an experience that caters to each user. This practice can seen in such major Internet shopping sites like Amazon, where the user is shown items that might interest them. The same concept is being applied to WibiData, a data management system that seeks to help companies manage [...]
By alexanderheng Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: data base, Database, Google, user data, wikidata
May 20, 2012
In his article “New GigaSpaces Release Promises ‘Big Data’ Analytics in Real Time,” Mark Brunelli talks about the latest software from GigaSpaces Technologies, that gives users the ability to build their own real-time big data analytics platforms. GigaSpaces Technologies is the leading provider of a new generation of application platforms for Java and .net environments, [...]
By Renee Lacson Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: big data, data architecture, GigaSpaces, real-time data
May 20, 2012
We all have used search engines numerous times to quench our thirst of curiosity didn’t matter if it was about a specific search or a vague subject. Let’s take Google for an instance; whenever there is a new search entered in seconds it provides the user with millions and millions results about the topic but [...]
By kaushalshroff Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: Database Design and Development (CIS 305)
May 20, 2012
Web 3.0 is the next generation of the web and its aim is to make “common formats for integration and combination of data drawn from diverse sources and how the data relates to real world objects.” It’s all about changing the current model of having one application with its private database and functions and the [...]
By JimJulagay Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: linked database, ontology, semantic web, Web 3.0
May 20, 2012
The article i read, titled ” Microsoft Courts Big Data Market with SQL Server Update” is about a recent update to the SQL servers by microsoft that is suppose to cater to managing large amounts of data. The update is suppose to bring a “modern data platform that embraces traditional structured data.” The new update [...]
By Tomas Rico Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: Database, SQL Server
May 20, 2012
In Michael Miller’s column FowardThinking, he talks about the many new systems that have been emerging due to the huge amounts of data generated by the internet companies. He refers to these systems as distributed file systems and because the type of data is different than the typical data used in RDMSs these companies have [...]
By CyberChic Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses Tags: distributed file systems, Hadoop
May 20, 2012
Summary: Database security is a topic which is a big concern for any business. In this article Application Security, Inc. introduces 10 “Best Practices” for database security based on 1,000 installation experience. 1. Establish a baseline: In this they run an evaluation of the current security level which is used for future comparison. Also, it [...]
By RizwanAzam Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Uncategorized
May 20, 2012
The artcile focuses on how SAP is planning to remain competitive in the market. It mentions the acquisition it made of SuccessFactors which is a cloud computing company. SAP hopes that the expertise gained with the acquisition will ease their transition into the cloud computing market. Integration of their global payroll software is what they [...]
By AnthonyTrevizo Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: Cloud Computing, Database, dataintegration, Hana, SAP, SuccessFactors
May 20, 2012
The peer reviewed article i choose for this week was about security testing voting systems. The authors discussed a few vulnerabilities for the DRE or direct-recording electronic voting machine and how they can affect election day. The authors found buffer overflows in the DRE system and by exploiting them it was very easy to completely [...]
By EdwinTorrez Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: CIS305, Hacking, security, testing, voting
May 19, 2012
The article I read for this week talks about Microsoft’s most recent update to SQL server. With the release of SQL server 2012 Microsoft has turned SQL Server into a tool that can help organizations analyze large amounts of unstructured data, an increasingly popular practice called big data. The new software is helpful for social networking analysis [...]
By joshualatham Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: big data, Cloud Computing, Database & Social Networking, Microsoft SQL 2012, SQL Server
May 19, 2012
This article title ” Information Integration for Facility Management”, is an interesting peer review article because this article talks about the basic integration of a facility management system to better support the operation of a hotel business. The information system built involves two different type of data which are graphical and alphanumerical. By combining these [...]
By Robert Quach Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: Computer-Aided Facility Management system, Facility Management, RDMS
May 19, 2012
Information is the basic need of life. Without information one cannot function. Information can be anything from fight reservation, to grade on an exam, to a telephone number. And for the very same reason institutions and companies are consolidating information. The thing about information is to decide how one wants to use it, and what [...]
By shaleenshah Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: information technology