John Goodson is a JDBC Expert Panel Member and VP of Research and Development at DataDirect Technologies. Check out his Tech Talk on TheServerSide.com, where he discusses Database Access Technologies.

Twitch already broadcasts and records millions of hours of gameplay video every month. Now that it’s built into Xbox One and opened its software-development kit to any developer, the amount of video ...

Keeping track of all your data -- where it's been, where it's going, who accesses it, and what they do with it -- is neither fun nor exciting. But it is a necessary substrate for holistic data ...

The government’s use of metadata has been thrust into the spotlight with the NSA’s attempt to thwart terrorism by tracking habits and connections of suspects on watch lists. But the value of metadata ...

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This paper describes a collaboration between BBC News and BBC Research & Development which is exploring ways of using the BBC’s linear programme output and associated production metadata, along with ...

In this guide, we will show you how to extract and save PDF metadata in Windows 11/10. Metadata is the data about data. It is the information that describes and helps to identify with a particular set ...

IDrive, a leader in cloud backup and data protection, today announced the launch of IDrive Salesforce Backup, a dedicated solution designed to secure and safeguard data and metadata for organizations ...

DNA-based data storage appears to offer solutions to some of the problems created by humanity’s ever-growing capacity to create data we want to hang on to. Compared to most other media, DNA offers ...

Rest assured that we only collected metadata on these people, and no actual conversations were recorded or meetings transcribed. All I know is whether someone was a member of an organization or not.