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 17, 2012
The article I chose touches on how tax authorities are challenged with collecting and identifying businesses that do not pay their correct taxes. Believe it or not, businesses and everyday people cheat on their taxes, whether it be for a higher refund or to elude from paying more money back to the government. Of all [...]
By Chris Sabatino Category: Customer Relationship Management and Business Intelligence, Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses, Strategic Decision Making
May 13, 2012
This article discusses the usage of Movement Object Databases (MOD), which provides info on objects that move over time – two examples given in the article include humans and vehicles, but could extend to animals and aircraft, and other such things. The authors of the chosen article suggest that there are techniques which could allow [...]
By Tyler Kleizo Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses Tags: Database, Database Analysis, datamining, Movement Object Databases
May 13, 2012
This article talks about the upcoming services and products from SimpleGeo. SimpleGeo is a company that originally wanted to create location-based games, but they found out that the tools they needed did not exist yet, so this sparked an idea to go into a different direction. That direction lead them to the development of two [...]
By Chris Sabatino Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses, E-Business, Enterprise Architectures, IS in Business
May 7, 2012
In this week’s article named “BART Cops’ Data Posted By Hackers” by Jaikumar Vijayan, I read about how BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) was attacked and their employee’s personal information was posted onto the internet. When the attack was finished, “…names, home addresses, email addresses, and passwords of 102 police officers belonging to San Francisco Bay [...]
By DavidLi Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses, Ethics and Information Security, Uncategorized
May 6, 2012
This article takes on the rather daunting task of restructuring a hospital’s information management systems – the current system for the majority of American hospitals involves utilizing a clerk-based system, where medical history and health information has to be stored in a rather unstructured manner, with varying degrees of specificity in detail on each medical [...]
By Tyler Kleizo Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses Tags: Database Design, hospital, infrastructure, RFID
May 4, 2012
This article focuses on the idea of fuzzy logic integrated into a database. What is fuzzy logic? It is a generalized logical condition (GLC) extension with its own set of rules in determining the data selection and data classification into one entity. In other words, fuzzy logic has a more “reasonable” approach and instead of [...]
By Chris Sabatino Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses, Uncategorized
Apr 29, 2012
In March Microsoft announced their newest version of SQL Server, SQL Server 2012. It became available on April 1, 2012. According to writer Joab Jackson of IDG News, MS added three broad areas of improvement. These include mission critical readiness, better business intelligence tools and greater compatibility with cloud computing. Tagged to the article was [...]
By CyberChic Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses
Apr 29, 2012
In an article found in Computerworld.com, it talks about how the CISPA (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act) Bill raises concerns about privacy and how the data will be harnessed and used. The purpose of the bill is to “ make it easier for Internet Service Provides and Internet companies to collect and share cyber threat [...]
By NelsonTena Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses, E-Business, Enterprise Architectures, Ethics and Information Security, IS in Business, Networks, Telecom and Mobile Technology, Uncategorized
Apr 29, 2012
This article brings to light the importance of data governance. Basically data governance is the discipline of converging data quality, management, policies and risk management revolving around the handling of data. Summed up, its just like talking about data integrity. There are five steps toward data governance, starting with a working group, developing an operational [...]
By Chris Sabatino Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses, E-Business, Ethics and Information Security, IS in Business, Strategic Decision Making
Apr 22, 2012
In an article posted on Computerworld.com, they talk about how oracle has opened up and previewed their latest version of MySQL. They say that it has many new features that improve the current database system. it allows for an “improved replication and the ability to bypass the SQL framework for faster data access” (Jackson, 2012). [...]
By NelsonTena Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses, Globalization, Innovation, and future trends, Interactive Web Development (CIS 311), Systems Development and Project Management, Uncategorized
Apr 22, 2012
As Alexander Haislip, writer for Tech Crunch, starts his informative article “Sins of Cloud,” he provides a great introduction comparing Cloud to the Creation of the World and that it was intended for good, but cautions users to watch out for pit falls which can add costs. The first is use only what you need [...]
By CyberChic Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses Tags: Cloud
Apr 21, 2012
Amazon web services has delivered a new technology know as DynamoDB that is a fully managed NoSQL database service. Current database layers have trouble keeping up with the demand of modern applications. As more requests come in, the database slows down and reduces overall performance. Increasing the amount of hardware to try and scale current [...]
By EdwinTorrez Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses Tags: Amazon, AWS, Cloud, DynamoDB, SSD
Apr 21, 2012
This article is a preview about the new upcoming MySQL from Oracle. Of course it will have various new features with it as well as experimental or test features that may or may not be included in the final version depending on the feedback from testers and database administrators. It was mentioned that two of [...]
By Chris Sabatino Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses, Globalization, Innovation, and future trends Tags: database management, software
Apr 15, 2012
The article I read talked about the release of Amazon’s DynamoDB. It is a essentially a cloud based service but takes simple storage a step further and has added database capabilities such as the ability to create tables and queries. As with Amazon’s other cloud services, DynamoDB is pay as you go. In that you [...]
By nicholasthibodeau Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses Tags: Amazon, Cloud, Database, relational databases
Apr 15, 2012
In this article, Wikimedia recently announced a new project of theirs called Wikidata. This is suppose to be a new database of information that can be read and edited but people and machines. One of the main goals of Wikidata is the development of an actual semantic, machine-readable database. The German Chapter of Wikimedia is [...]
By Chris Sabatino Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses Tags: Google, wikipedia
Apr 8, 2012
Google has been hit with criticism for having different privacy policies for their web services for consumers. They now have a unified privacy policy but they have done much to change it ways on data collection. Everything a user types into google search or other services are collected and store on googles server database. Alma [...]
By NelsonTena Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses, Networks, Telecom and Mobile Technology, Uncategorized
Apr 1, 2012
IT is moving to the upper stratosphere where clouds reside. Bernard Golden (2012), who is the CIO of a cloud management software company states that many small and medium companies are giving up in-house information centers to obtain cost advantages by switching to mega-data centers or cloud computing. Being in the vortex of this disruptive technology, [...]
By CyberChic Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses, Globalization, Innovation, and future trends Tags: Cloud Computing, SUPERNAP
Jan 15, 2012
The software development life cycle (SDLC) that is known focuses on the software and the system itsself and does not take into account of environmental factors normally associated with SDLC. Huang states that recycling at the end of the SDLC is not enough to negate the environmental impact. He include how IT has helped the [...]
By Mike Yamamoto Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses Tags: Database, Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Google, server, Wired
Nov 27, 2011
Have you ever seen the movie “Eagle Eye” and wondered if someone was able to track your every move. Well that is actually becoming a reality. Recently, the American Civil Liberties Union reported that there is a “widespread tracking of citizen’s movements” using automated license plate readers. This technology is reaching a point where it [...]
By Taylor Geery Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses Tags: Future, Technology