Khi customers, employees, partners của company access data dễ dàng qua user-friendly system, họ có hai người thank: database administrator và data architect. Đảm bảo well-built databases function reliably và securely cho potentially thousands hoặc millions users là major responsibility, companies mọi industry rely on data architects và DBAs design và monitor data networks meet needs của all who use them.
Khi business community's data needs skyrocketed, skills necessary keeping up with latest database technologies cũng expanded. Snapshot các roles này, cùng với C-level data positions chief data officer và chief analytics officer, provided trong infographic sau.
The New DBA: Keeping up with Latest Data Demands
Database administrator role central IT role for years, và as IT responsibilities changed, duties của DBA grown unprecedented ways. Many cases, developers và other IT professionals taken on role để keep company operations functioning without delays. Resourcefulness này common among DBAs, expected keep finger on pulse of today's range of technologies và make best choice database cho company operations.
"Today there's a myriad of choices," Kenny Gorman, Chief Technologist tại Rackspace Office of the CTO, co-founder ObjectRocket nói. "DBAs increasingly challenged với knowing what these different data stores do, how they work và what they can bring to the table."
Có SQL và NoSQL skills necessary, along with big data skills include proficiency với variety technologies, từ Microsoft SQL Server đến Mongo DB. Working knowledge latest developments necessary cho DBAs want stay cutting edge database technologies, hoặc those stepped up become DBA.
The New Data Architect: Building Robust Data Infrastructure
Emergence of big data không chỉ ushered in need latest database technologies, mà cũng need data infrastructure với user-friendly access đến those databases. Trong khi chief data officer và chief analytics officer plan và implement company's data strategy, data architect responsible designing và building network meet company's storage, access và analytics requirements. Along with that: ensuring employees can access và share data easily.
"People want to get to the data in a timely manner," Ali Farahani, CDO của County of Los Angeles' Chief Information Office nói. "Once you make the data available with a consistent architecture, you can have a more streamlined process of creating data sources và sharing them."
David Murphy, Lead DBA và former Mongo Master tại ObjectRocket, emphasizes rằng once data architects matched up needs of employees với customized data architecture, họ complete primary duties bằng thinking about future data demands. "The final part is understanding what technologies a company should be looking at, moving forward," Murphy explains, "so that they're ahead of the curve và preparing for the next six months, the next year, the next two years."
A Closer Look at the Evolving Skillsets
Organizations looking stay competitive và gain new insights on consumer behavior, game plan phải consist of determining where skill gaps exist và then assembling team of data experts provide knowledge và creativity realize company's data objectives. Even cho someone well versed in past database technologies và expertise, keeping up with latest requirements is challenge, The Emerging Skillsets of the Data Revolution sẽ helpful resource khi gathering talent form data management team.