Category Archives: Data & Information Management

What should CIOs be demanding of Storage Vendors?

In most organisations the acquisition of storage and its associated management tools was, until recently,[...]

Agility without anxiety

Dale Vile met up with Perforce’s Mark Warren to discuss how to do agile development[...]

Data fragmentation challenges restrict business flexibility

Business must be ready to respond to rapidly changing market conditions. For any organisation to[...]

BPM from back office to front office and beyond

Are you tough enough to take on BPM and win? Someone has to. It has[...]

Beware of what you ask – you might just get the answer

One of the perils inherent in Big Data projects About 20 years ago, we were[...]

Fast Forward to Big Data

Does ’cloud’ have a roll in providing customers with access to new data sources to[...]

Meeting the information needs of disparate stakeholder communities

Insights and lessons from the public sector When it comes to information management, many of[...]

Managing Big Data

By Andrew Buss Way back in the mists of time, when computers were first developed[...]

Is Big Data just Big Hype?

If the deluge of headlines and vendor marketing materials is anything to go by, ‘big[...]

Keeping Score in the Public Sector

With a mandate to make public records broadly available online, yet at the same time[...]

Big data storage technologies – “Rip and replace” or “Complementary”?

All too frequently the IT industry gets caught up in a whirlwind of marketing stories[...]

Information management: technology investment pays off

Obtaining budget for new technology investments can be a difficult exercise at the best of[...]

Storage Through the Looking Glass

Talk of storage technology makes business people yawn, but the state of the storage infrastructure[...]

The Business of Electronic Data Storage

By Dale Vile, Tony Lock and Martha Bennett Introduction Storage and retrieval of electronic data[...]

CA ERwin – Getting reacquainted with an old friend

Back in the deep dark past, when I designed and optimised relational databases for a[...]

Winners and losers in the information race

The mainstream media generally portrays the financial services industry as being in a total mess,[...]

Big Data in Context

By Freeform Dynamics We wanted to gain practical insights into the context for some of[...]

Information management in financial services

With decision making among banks under so much scrutiny, the important question arises of how[...]

Oracle fleshes out its ’big data’ portfolio

I couldn’t say this for certain, but I get the impression that the marketing noise[...]

Enterprise social media revisited

Over the last three or four years, many have been advocating the use of social[...]

Unlock the business value of your information

Stakeholders are increasingly looking to get information ’on demand’ to regulatory bodies; seeking more complex[...]

How big is Big Data?

‘Big data’ is one of those ‘buzz’ terms that is difficult to avoid, at least[...]

Bridging the information gap

The pace at which modern business tends to move has resulted in a situation where[...]

Building tech for the flexible worker

Remote workers need support and training. The IT department needs to secure their devices and[...]