Tag: data

March 23, 2023

Staying in control and securing your data has never been more important! As data privacy regulations continue to evolve, businesses have had to adapt how and where they store data. The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been the […]

March 16, 2023

KPN, the largest infrastructure provider in the Netherlands, offers a high-performance fixed-line and mobile network in addition to enterprise-class IT infrastructure and a wide range of cloud offerings, including Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Security-as-a-Service. Drawing on its extensive track record of […]

March 6, 2023

When you store and deliver data at Shutterstock’s scale, the flexibility and elasticity of the cloud is a huge win, freeing you from the burden of costly, high-maintenance data centers. But for the New York-based provider of stock photography, footage, […]

February 27, 2023

The power of the cloud offers two distinct paths for organizations: They can choose to simply move part of their application and data estate to the cloud or undertake an organizational reinvention more broadly through the cloud. The former entails […]

February 10, 2023

Repatriation seems to be a hot topic these days as some applications and data sets return to where they came from. I’ve even been tagged in some circles as an advocate for repatriation, mostly because of this recent post. Once […]

February 8, 2023

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is revising its cloud strategy and embarking on a push to ensure even its most highly classified forms of data are moved off-premise by 2025. The government department has issued a 39-page strategy document that […]

February 3, 2023

The increasing amounts of data generated by today’s modern enterprise continues to challenge organizations as they look to extract valuable insights from that data. The inability to leverage all kinds of data and the amount of expertise required from data […]

January 31, 2023

Let’s talk for a minute about data silos. Real world silos are, of course, those towers on farms that are used to store grain for future use or sale. They’re towering buildings that usually contain only one type of raw […]

January 20, 2023

Cloud repatriation may be a sensitive and polarizing topic for some, but it really should be just another architectural option. When I say that some workloads should return to the data center, I am not pushing back on cloud computing. […]

December 29, 2022

Data breaches could be even more expensive next year, a new report from Acronis has claimed. Based on data collected from more than 750,000 unique endpoints, distributed around the world, the company’s report claims the average cost of a data […]

December 28, 2022

It’s easy enough to decommission or scale back on-premises software deployments after moving workloads to the cloud. But what about data center equipment? How do you rightsize your on-premises hardware after you migrate some of your applications to cloud-based virtual […]

December 19, 2022

Edge computing refers to geographically locating infrastructure in proximity to where data is generated or consumed. Instead of pushing this data to a public or private cloud for storage and computing, the data is processed “on the edge,” using infrastructure […]

December 19, 2022

The pandemic has shifted a lot of businesses online. With the evolution comes a new way of storing data, as traditional paper records cease to exist. Small and large companies are now using the cloud to store their information for […]

November 22, 2022

Every enterprise needs a data strategy that clearly defines the technologies, processes, people, and rules needed to safely and securely manage its information assets and practices. As with just about everything in IT, a data strategy must evolve over time […]

November 2, 2022

The air travel industry has dealt with significant change and uncertainty in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, JetBlue Airways decided its competitive advantage depended on IT — in particular, on transforming its data stack to consolidate data […]

August 29, 2022

In the cloud, the data warehouse is a type of data management designed to perform analyses on large amounts of data. It ensures uniform data collection, supports business decisions based solely on numbers, and improves overall business strategies and efficiencies. […]

August 25, 2022

As organizations shape the contours of a secure edge-to-cloud strategy, it’s important to align with partners that prioritize both cybersecurity and risk management, with clear boundaries of shared responsibility. The security-shared-responsibility model is essential when choosing as-a-service offerings, which make […]

August 22, 2022

CIOs and IT directors working on any project that involves data in any way are always more likely to succeed when the organisation has a clear view of the data it holds. Increasingly, organisations are using data classification to track […]

July 18, 2022

Creating a secure application requires many safeguards, but by far the most important are those that secure the data in the application. These are also the most difficult to implement. When it comes to securing application data, there are two […]

July 14, 2022

There is no doubt that this decade will see more data produced than ever before. But what’s truly going to transform our lives, define the trajectory of each of our organizations, and reshape industries is not the massive volume of […]