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The IOUG ResearchWire is a research based e-newsletter for the IOUG membership community. IOUG members will receive data via the ResearchWire newsletter periodically throughout the year and will also have the opportunity to participate in each of the studies that are conducted. If you choose to participate, then you will be the first to receive the executive summary for the study detailing the major findings from the survey that you responded to. All of the studies focus on Oracle technology or things affecting data professionals and the data allows you to be able to benchmark where your organization stands with your technology environment and also where you are in your career as an Oracle technology professional.
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NEW! Enterprise Cloudscapes: Deeper & More Strategic - 2012-13 IOUG Cloud Computing Executive Summary
Cloud computing is no longer a novel concept being experimented with at the edge of the enterprise. It is now a mainstream business technology strategy that is delivering the agility and flexibility that businesses require to move forward. A new survey finds that cloud computing continues gaining converts within the enterprise, and is pushing down deep roots within companies that have deployed the approach.The opportunities and challenges presented by the growing cloud computing phenomenon are addressed in a new survey of data managers and professionals, most of whom are part of the Independent Oracle Users Group. The survey was underwritten by Oracle Corporation and conducted by Unisphere Research, adivision of Information Today, Inc. While definitions of “cloud” vary, for purposes of this survey, “private cloud” is defined as on-demand shared services provided to internal departments or lines of business within enterprises. “Public cloud” is defined as on-demand services provided by public cloud providers.
NEW! Big Data Visionaries: 2013 Data Science Skills Survey Access the Full Study
Data scientists are being cast as the visionaries who will help guide their organizations into the future, by scooping up information from all corners of the enterprise and beyond,and figuring out ways to make that data tell compelling stories.However, many of the managers and professionals who will be tasked with this exciting new role—or, in some cases, already performing such magic with data—aren’t necessarily going to have the title of “data scientist” in their job descriptions. Rather,these individuals—whose backgrounds include IT and programming; math and statistics; and a willingness to look at things differently—already work within today’s organizations,as database administrators, analysts, managers and consultants. Increasingly, the jobs of all these professionals encompass data scientist-style activities—taking raw data sets, and finding ways to extract the nuggets of information of value to the business.
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NEW! Accelerating Enterprise Insights: 2013 IOUG In-Memory Strategies Survey
Databases are hampered by reliance on diskbased storage, a technology that has been in place for more thantwo decades. Even with the addition of memory caches and solidstatedrives, the model of relying on repeated access to thepermanent information storage devices is still a bottleneckin capitalizing on today’s “Big Data.” Enter in-memory technologies, which offer a way todramatically speed up repetitive access and analyze information,accomplished by loading complete data sets into computers’random access memory.
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Closing the Security Gap: 2012 IOUG Enterprise Data Security Survey
As organizations dramatically scale up the amount of data moving across their systems and business units, the risk of data breaches and abuse grows. Many organizations are managing more than a petabyte of data, which gets copied and proliferated for purposes of development, testing and backup.While data centers may have safeguards and best practices in place to protect data, there are no guarantees of whether other departments, business partners, or outsourced environments have the same rules and protocols.There are also measures that need to be taken to safeguard data from internal abuse; however, preventing privileged users from negligence or malfeasance is a serious challenge.
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Testing the Bounds of Data Governance: 2012 IOUG Test Development & QA Survey
Thanks to relentless global competition and an unforgiving economy, organizations have been under non-stop pressure to deliver products and services. For many the lifeblood of finding new opportunities has been to mine the data assets being gathered from all corners of their enterprise and beyond—transactions, customer data, employee input, and information about market conditions. However, in the rush to deliver results, many IT and development departments take shortcuts within the testing process, taking live data right out of production environments to run through testing, development and quality assurance(QA) processes. In a new survey of IT and data executives, respondents report their organizations are behind the curve when it comes to managing the risks that could come from exposing live data to less secure settings—including development departments and outside contractors. This is an Achilles’ heel that is being overlooked in data security efforts.
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Big Data, Big Challenges, Big Opportunities: 2012 IOUG Big Data Strategies Survey
Big Data techniques with their current enterprise data to gain that competitive advantage.The opportunities and challenges presented by Big Data are addressed in a new survey of data managers and professionals who are part of the Independent Oracle Users Group. The survey was underwritten by Oracle Corporation and conducted by Unisphere Research, a division of Information Today, Inc. Survey respondents hold a variety of job roles and represent a wide rangeof organization types and sizes and industry verticals. The largest segment (36%) of respondents hold the title of database administrator, followed by that of director or manager. Close to one-third work for very large organizations with more than10,000 employees. By industry sector, the majority of respondents come from IT service providers, financial services, education and government agencies.
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Enterprise Data and the Cost of Downtime: 2012 IOUG Database Availability Survey For every organization in today’s always-open global economy,success means ensuring access to enterprise data whenever it is needed. However, business operations are often hampered by interruptions in the flow of the vital data required to make decisions.When evaluating your organization’s approach to high availability, you must consider a range of issues: For example, if a mission-critical database goes offline, how long will it take to get things back up and running? What are the business costs of the delays, and what can be done to mitigate or eliminate delays in delivering data? These are some the questions posed in a new survey of Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) members, which explored issues with planned and unplanned downtime, alongside database high availability and disaster recovery solutions. The survey, underwritten by Oracle Corporation and conducted by Unisphere Research, a division of Information Today, Inc.
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Enterprises Advance into the Cloud: 2011 IOUG Cloud Computing Survey The role of IT departments and management committees in managing private and public cloud efforts has increased over the past year as well, reflecting the increasing centralization of cloud efforts within enterprises. IT executives, in particular, are increasingly taking on a leadership role in identifying and managing both internal and external cloud resources for their enterprises.An August 2011 survey of 257 IT and data managers and professionals finds more organizations are embracing both private and public cloud computing.
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Databases Are More at Risk Than Ever: 2011 IOUG Data Security Survey More than half way through, 2011 is shaping up to be a record year for data breaches. Many information security professionals are concerned about the increase in data breaches; however, a new survey from the Independent Oracle User Group (IOUG) finds that many IT security and database professionals have not done enough to secure their data from either insiders or external entities exploiting insider access.
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A New Dimension to Data Warehousing: 2011 IOUG Data Warehousing Survey Data warehousing is undergoing the most radical transformation seen since it was first conceived in the 1970s, and brought to market in the late 1980s and 1990s. Findings from a new survey of Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) members indicate that while most companies have well-established data warehouse systems, adoption is still limited within their organizations.
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The Petabyte Challenge: 2011 IOUG Database Growth Survey In this day and age, for many organizations, data is not only crossing into the hundreds of terabytes, but into the nearpetabyte (PB) and multi-petabyte range. In a new survey conducted by Unisphere Research among members of the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG), close to one out of ten respondents report that the total amount of online (disk-resident) data they manage today— taking into account all clones, snapshots, replicas and backups— tops a petabyte.
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2011 IOUG Database Manageability Survey As the era of “Big Data” marches on unabated, data is coming from an ever wider range of sources, including transactional systems, mobile devices, sensors, streaming media, and social networks. This has placed tremendous pressure on IT departments to deliver database services faster and at lower operational costs. With this rapid rise in demand for database services comes the stewardship and challenge of managing multiple databases. A new survey finds that data stores are expanding in many companies, and this growth contributes to numerous daily challenges and pains in database management.
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