IRI Data Migration and Modernization
With the rise of the cloud, data migrations – and specifically, cloud migrations – have become (and, for that matter, are still becoming) increasingly important to many organizations. Read More
Getting Started with IRI Ripcurrent
Abstract: Data collected, processed, and saved across industries is constantly generated and updated. Database (DB) tables can be refreshed with new data from applications or events in intervals as frequent as a fraction of a second. Read More
Mapping DB Data Types
Abstract: The process of transferring data from one database (DB) to another can be complicated when those DBs do not use the same data types. A DB Data Type Mapping wizard is now implemented in IRI Workbench to help solve this problem for SortCL-driven data management jobs with different sources and targets. Read More
Voracity Software Support for Cloud File Stores
Public and private cloud file systems are becoming increasingly popular places for businesses and government agencies to store their data. Several major competitors have arisen in the cloud storage provider space, with Amazon, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform at the top. Read More
Smart, Safe Test Data for DevOps, MLOps and DataOps
Data flowing through application development, machine learning, and analytic pipelines must address several needs common to all three, including:
Realism, to reflect production data characteristics and application test requirements; Compliance, with business and data privacy rules, plus DB and analytic models; Availability, or security, of the data (depending on your perspective); and, Auditability, for lineage and accountability. Read More
Masking & Mapping Data in a Snowflake Database
Finding and masking personally identifiable information (PII) in Snowflake® data warehouses works the same way in IRI FieldShield® or Voracity® installations as it does for other relational database sources. Read More
BigQuery Data Management via IRI Voracity
BigQuery is a managed, serverless data warehouse in the Google Cloud designed to enable scalable analysis over petabytes of data. It is a relational database Platform as a Service (PaaS) which supports ANSI SQL queries. Read More
Automating IRI Jobs Using File Monitoring: A POC
Manually initiating IRI Voracity ETL, CoSort reporting, FieldShield or DarkShield masking, or NextForm migration jobs is not realistic or productive in environments where data in files are added or changed dynamically. Read More
Connecting to Vertica in IRI Workbench
Like other articles in this blog on the connection and configuration of relational databases with the IRI Voracity data management platform — and its ecosystem products: CoSort, NextForm, FieldShield, DarkShield and RowGen — this article details how to reach Vertica sources. Read More
IRI Script Reuse Techniques for Fewer and More Flexible…
Designing for reuse is a common cost-saving technique used in the software industry that can be applied to IRI SortCL (Sort Control Language)-compatible job design. Designing for reuse can result in a smaller inventory of scripts; and reduce script development, maintenance and execution costs. Read More
The Voracity-DataSwitch Combination
Abstract: IRI and DataSwitch have partnered to create an end-to-end, multi-featured metadata and AI-driven data engineering environment for: legacy data and ETL modernization, cloud data integration and migration, data governance and masking operations, and data democratization for business-friendly analytics. Read More