Category Archives: AI & Machine Learning

Building an open cloud: Say no to silos

It’s a hybrid world. But proprietary clouds are hard to integrate and less flexible. On[...]

Get REAL about data location in the cloud

Where to put your data, how to decide in the real world Performance, compliance, privacy,[...]

Data Stored Factor: do you know how many times is a given piece of data stored?

By Charles Brett Are enterprises asking the right questions about data and its storage? This[...]

The Business Value of Data Protection

By Tony Lock The data held in every business is valuable and in the current[...]

The Data Protection Imperative

In this short paper, we spell out why the time has come to adopt a[...]

Data Protection as a Business Enabler

While the importance of business information is almost universally recognised, few organisations have enjoyed either[...]

Forget Big Data – No one is panning for gold

By Tony Lock CIOs have been subjected to the combined efforts of a significant proportion[...]

’Big Data changes EVERYTHING’ vs ’Hadoop? For my 200-customer biz?’

By Dale Vile As an industry analyst, it sometimes feels like I am flitting between[...]

Big Data, Analytics and the Future of Data Centres

Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – VMUG Meeting, Manchester February 12, 2013 Presenter(s)[...]

Solutions for driving better B2B integration

By Dale Vile In a previous article we highlighted the fact that many organisations could[...]

Freedom without Anarchy

Empowering employees through the delegation of authority and trust can enhance innovation and productivity. But[...]

Next Generation Data Management and Analytics

By Dale Vile It’s easy to understand the increasing positive buzz around advances in information[...]

Is Big Data killing the RDBMS?

Time for a reality check

Analytics and Big Data

By Tony Lock ‘Big Data’ is a hot topic receiving considerable attention from the marketing[...]

Why you need an interactive archive

Many organisations today only archive data when there is some external legislative driver forcing their[...]

Lessons from B2B high performers

By Andrew Buss The way that companies connect with each other to do business can[...]

Electronic trading dogged by information issues

By Dale Vile How many suppliers and customers do you trade with in the average[...]

Big Data and Analytics

Results of a web survey illustrate the state of business information and analytics today. Just[...]

Mining the gold seam of structured data

By Andrew Buss Much of the talk of the last year has been about Big[...]

Lack of Understanding inhibits adoption of Big Data

By Tony Lock Read any IT publication, online or hard copy, and it is hard[...]

Good news for Relational DBAs – Looks like there will still be demand for your services

Those advocating emerging technologies and ideas often talk as if IT is a zero sum[...]

Datacentre in a box – Something for everyone?

CIOs have a tough job delivering an expanding range of services to ever more demanding[...]