Volume 31 | Number 1
FEBRUARY/MARCH 2017
FEATURES
RESEARCH@DBTA
2 Data Managers Take Up the Fight Against System Complexity
By Joe McKendrick
FEATURE STORY
4 Data Security Footprint Expands as Threats Grow
By Joe McKendrick
DEPARTMENTS
APPLICATIONS
10 How vNAS Helps Fulfill the Promise of vSAN
By Stefan Bernbo
23 How to Corral Sensitive Enterprise Data Without Locking It Away From Users
By Paul Hampton
TRENDS
22 The Rise of Aisle Containment Structures
By Erich Hamilton
27 Big Data and IoT Predictions for 2017
29 Overcoming Big Data’s Operational Challenges to Focus on Insights
By Robin Purohit
MULTIVALUE SOLUTIONS > SPECIAL SECTION
24 MV Vendors look to the role of MV in the future
> Mike Ruane, Revelation Software
> Steve O’Neal, Rocket Software
> Keith Lambert, Kore Technologies
> Doug Leupen, Entrinsik
> Mark Pick, Pick Cloud
> Corey Luckow, Zumasys
COLUMNS
30 Next-Gen Data Management > by Gerardo Dada
Should You Build or Buy Database Monitoring?
31 Emerging technologies > by Guy Harrison
The Ethics of AI
32 DBA Corner > by Craig S. Mullins
Digital Transformation and the DBA
34 IOUG Observations > by Maria Anderson
A Journey of IT Innovation
35 SQL Server Drill Down > by Kevin Kline
Introducing the SQL Server Database Experimentation Assistant
36 Database Elaborations > by Todd Schraml
IT Users Are the Most Important Resource