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"Path to Self-Management: Database Automation and Provisioning"
May 23, 2006
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San Francisco, CA
May 14-18, 2006
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Las Vegas, NV
Nov. 28 - Dec. 1, 2006
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CEO's Connection

Data, the Neglected Child of BSM
by Rob Gardos, CEO

Business Service Management (BSM) has received a great deal of attention over the past several months as organizations, vendors and analysts promote this concept as central to strategic IT. A primary objective of BSM is to strategically align the set of systems, policies and procedures that guide IT departments with the business needs of the enterprise. Any integrated BSM strategy should deal with three components: applications, infrastructure, and data. While many organizations have incorporated applications and infrastructure into their BSM, they have long neglected one crucial component of BSM: data. The historically siloed structure of databases, and the black box mentality surrounding them, has kept the management of the database tier in the dark ages. Any organization looking to align business needs with IT capabilities needs to rethink their database management strategy.

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Featured White Paper

GridApp Clarity: Auditing & Compliance

Organizations are at risk of breaking the law if they do not develop and maintain internal controls on information and processes. But with the growing amount of information in databases, this has never been more challenging. Find out how your organization can institute rigorous auditing and compliance controls without draining precious IT resources.

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Ask the Expert - with Matthew Zito

This month's question: Dear Matt, shouldn't our internal auditors tell me how to audit our databases?

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Auditing IQ

Think you know everything about auditing? Take this brief quiz to rate your auditing IQ.

  1. (T/F) The audit trail can be tweaked by a DBA and still provide relevant data.
  2. (T/F) Auditing is complicated by multiple databases.
  3. (T/F) Auditing began when Sarbanes-Oxley was passed.
  4. (T/F) Auditing trails are automatically consolidated into a central database by disparate systems.

Find out if you're a database demagogue or an auditing abecedarian.

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