Tag: data

April 19, 2022

A strange trend has been manifesting across the industry. Data centers – usually thought of as quiet, clean neighbors that provide an economic boom to rural areas – are getting the kind of not-in-my-back-yard pushback usually reserved for shopping malls […]

April 19, 2022

The amount of money end-users across the globe spend on public cloud services is expected to continue to soar on a year-by-year basis, according to Gartner’s latest forecast data. The IT analyst house predicts that spending on public cloud services […]

April 19, 2022

In recent times, the phrase “data is the new oil” has become an overused cliché. However, while it has helped create awareness around the value of data, many companies are still struggling to realise the full potential from the data […]

March 18, 2022

Remember when performance was everything? I used to spend days in computer labs testing performance and reporting for tech magazines about what I found. The tech that provided the best performance, meaning CPU processing, data, storage, and other components at […]

March 10, 2022

Google has announced its plans to pledge $3m over the next five years as well as hundreds of hours of its engineers’ time to make it easier to move data away from its services as well as those of other […]

March 1, 2022

Want to know who has the most stressful job in the enterprise these days? It’s the CISO, or chief information security officer. This is typically a senior-level executive responsible for developing and implementing information security programs and the person first […]

February 22, 2022

A mind-boggling volume of data is created and stored every year, and it’s growing all the time. The large-scale adoption of SaaS (Software as a Service) and cloud storage services brought major compliance challenges for users and providers. The terms […]

December 10, 2021

Have you heard about serverless computing? Guess what, it’s not serverless at all. It just automates the allocation of back-end servers you’ll need to complete a particular task. Today we have dozens of types of serverless systems from databases to […]

December 10, 2021

Demand for edge computing is growing rapidly. Deloitte, for example, predicts the market for edge technology will reach $12bn (£9bn) this year. Other surveys suggest it could be worth more than $60b by 2028. That growth is being driven by […]

December 8, 2021

As individuals, we go through life sharing information about ourselves in every aspect of our daily existence. From credit checks for securing a loan, through to entire personal and family medical histories for securing health insurance. Without providing personal data, […]

December 8, 2021

While cloud companies such as AWS are offering enterprise customers new ways to get applications off the mainframe and into the cloud, IBM moved this week to keep them on the Big Iron. IBM rolled out a portal it calls […]

November 15, 2021

Organizations often think they have to make a trade-off between broad data access and governance, particularly when it comes to regulations and policies around data privacy. But in reality, data governance can help users of that data—including customers and employees—more […]

November 4, 2021

CME Group and Alphabet Inc.’s Google struck a deal to help the derivatives exchange operator with its technology needs and a plan to move all of its operations to the cloud. As part of the agreement, Google also made a […]

October 29, 2021

When big business moved to the cloud, the impetus was for it to be pretty modest, originally: reduce costs. Slowly, but surely, it’s now seen more and more at board level to increase competitiveness and business effectiveness, becoming a platform […]

October 28, 2021

The combination of dispersed working and the exponential growth of IoT devices is changing the working landscape. As businesses require more reliable and faster access to data and applications, many have adopted cloud computing architectures, where data is processed in […]

October 26, 2021

As businesses of all sizes look to recover and thrive following the pandemic, getting the most out of their data will be critical. But in an enterprise world rapidly moving towards hybrid working and cloud-first approaches, finding the most effective […]

October 20, 2021

Generally, accounting systems are designed to cope with a finite amount of data and basic transactions. This has meant that many of these systems have begun to slow and become difficult to access as they attempt to deal with unprecedented […]

October 19, 2021

Innovation is essential to stay ahead of your competition. Without new ways of working, new products or new digital services, companies will fall behind their competitors that are willing to try new things. For example, EY’s research into the technology, […]

September 28, 2021

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has strengthened its GreenLake cloud platform with two new services: unified analytics, and data backup and disaster recovery. The company on Tuesday announced HPE GreenLake for analytics, which enables enterprises to unify, modernize and analyze all their […]

September 27, 2021

From its growing traction in the early 2000s, the concept of cloud computing has been a dream come true for IT managers. Rather than owning and managing computing infrastructure outright on-premises, for the first time, they were able to rent […]