Category Archives: Data & Information Management

Big data in Context

Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – TheRegister:IntelAcademy, 22nd November 2011 Presenter(s) – Martha[...]

Moving Information Management Forwards

By Tony Lock & Dale Vile Locating and accessing information required to run the business[...]

Data retention, FOI and the storage budget

The data retention policy in too many organisations has historically boiled down to ‘keep everything[...]

The storage boom and bust cycle

More data more often than not means more disks. It was ever thus – but[...]

The Business Information Illusion

By Dale Vile KEY POINTS The pace of business today dictates devolved management and decision-making[...]

Big data and the cloud

One of the big advantages of cloud computing is scalability in terms of both server[...]

End User Productivity Revisited

Despite the plethora of ‘productivity solutions’ available from IT suppliers, why is it that real[...]

Information is a right, not a privilege

By Dale Vile Organisations today rely on effective management of business performance at all levels.[...]

Cloud and Storage

By Tony Lock The topic of “Cloud” has not escaped the attention of anyone in[...]

The other enterprise desktop

There are few topics in the IT industry that are more divisive than the option[...]

Visualisation into action

Do you have lots of data but find it difficult to work out what it[...]

Lessons from the library: Behind the UK’s web archive

After all, the role of libraries in general has been increasingly threatened by the march[...]

Information in action

Information is power, right? Only if you can harness it and deliver it where and[...]

Data Protection Basics

Some things in life, such as taxes and the music of the younger generation, have[...]

Intelligent cacheing for optimised storage

Virtualisation is an accepted part of server and data centre strategy. One of the biggest[...]

Why does information management matter?

Getting the right information to the right people at the right time sounds like a[...]

BI 2010 – the state of play

By Jon Collins Information continues to grow, and yet the challenges we face in managing[...]

Putting ’I’ back in ’CIO’

Nice sound bite, but does the spirit make sense? On a few occasions recently I[...]

Resurrecting old jargon. BI versus decision support?

No one disputes the fact that there’s a lot of data kicking around in most[...]

Information versus the silos

The idea that ‘information is important and we want to do more useful things with[...]

Understanding your information assets

Information is power, right? Well, just how powerful must most organisations feel today, given the[...]

BI versus Decision Support

As an old timer in the industry, I remember the days when the term ‘decision[...]

Protective Monitoring

by Jon Collins and Martin Atherton MAIN POINTS CESG (Communications and Electronic Security Group) Good[...]

Search: What are you looking for?

By Martin Atherton In the very real world of business IT, the concepts, topics and[...]