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CIOs rely on intuition over hard-data

Published in Compliance/Security Data Analytics Software

Study shows today’s IT leaders often ignore data and external advice when making decisions.

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2016 - the year of cloud security?

Published in Cloud + MS Compliance/Governance/Risk Management Compliance/Security Data Analytics Datacentre + Network Security Device Security Identity/Access Management Security Security + Compliance Security-as-a-Service

2016 will be the year of cloud security and ROI, a year when CISOs finally get the recognition they deserve, and the year that Europe and the US make up or break up when it comes to data privacy. This is according to Yorgen Edholm, CEO & President of Accellion, an industry leader in providing secure, enterprise mobile file sharing and collaboration solutions.

Published in Big Data/Analytics-as-a-Service Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting Compliance/Security Data Analytics Infrastructure Infrastructure Platform Security Software Software Defined DC & Storage Storage Storage + Servers Storage Technology Virtualisation

Closing the deepening gap between digitally connected populations and those cut off from the Internet is a global challenge, but one that presents ICT companies and other innovators with significant business opportunities, according to a new report by Huawei.

Published in Big Data/Analytics-as-a-Service Compliance/Security Data Analytics Infrastructure Software

Cornell University will lead a five-year, $5 million project sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to build a federated cloud comprised of data infrastructure building blocks (DIBBs) designed to support scientists and engineers requiring flexible workflows and analysis tools for large-scale data sets, known as the Aristotle Cloud Federation.

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Businesses fail to measure or monitor customer service quality

Research highlights lack of consensus on what quality means and finds many businesses prevented by cost, resource and technology barriers from achieving it.

Alteryx secures $85 million investment

Led by Iconiq Capital and Insight Venture Partners to drive generational shift in analytics and fuel exponential growth.

Dell reinforces ‘All-Data’ strategy

End-to-end big data and analytics solution helps organizations harness all data to connect better with customers, improve operations and systems, and drive new business creation.

Senior management have unrealistic expectations about IT downtime

Report identifies gap between IT and senior management expectations.

Rapid7 acquires Logentries

Rapid7 has acquired RevelOps, Inc. d/b/a Logentries (Logentries), a leading provider of machine data search technology.

Customer data has monetary value but many organisations ignore it

Many organisations do not manage customer data as a corporate asset, and the monetary value of that data is often ignored, according to Gartner, Inc.

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Dell to acquire EMC

Brings together the industry’s leading innovators in digital transformation, software-defined data centre, hybrid cloud, converged infrastructure, mobile and security.

Big Data needs best practices

Analytics projects that utilise big data or advanced analytics are increasingly popular but present a heightened risk of failure, according to Gartner, Inc. Analytics leaders can improve the likelihood of success by following five best practices.

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Digital economy to hit ?3.2trillion during second digital revolution

Enterprise technology spending to double to more than ?1 trillion by 2025, Traditional communications and broadband connectivity spend to decline, Digital advertising spend will rise to ?254 billion.

UK companies slow to embrace digital transformation

New Digital Effectiveness Index reveals companies with successful digital transformation strategies benefit from double the revenue growth compared to mainstream organisations.

Redefining risk

David Tattam, Chief Research and Content Officer and Co-Founder, Protecht, discusses the company’s mission ‘to redefine the way the world thinks about risk’, with some engaging and informative insights as to how organisations can develop and grow an effective, dynamic risk management framework, with the people-related aspect – culture and conduct – at its core.

Database modernisation – time for a migration?

David Walker, Field CTO, EMEA, Yugabyte, the leading open source distributed SQL database company, warns of the problems associated with legacy databases, discusses the importance of database modernisation - covering the requirements, benefits and potential pitfalls of the migration process - and outlines the many advantages of migrating to open source cloud native databases.

Application modernisation and digital data management

Martin James, VP EMEA at Aerospike, discusses the importance of application modernisation, efficient software and IT consolidation – all of which should mean the need for less databases, but with richer feature sets. He outlines both the pitfalls of holding onto legacy applications and systems and the benefits of modernisation and consolidation, with Aerospike well positioned to help customers with the attendant data management challenges and opportunities.

Expert Opinion Series - Episode 1 - DCS Talks to Centiel

In the first of a series of interviews with leading industry experts, David Bond, from our series sponsor company, Centiel, shares valuable thoughts on and insights into current data centre industry challenges and opportunities – with sustainability and skills very much the focus. He also reveals what keeps him busy away from the workplace.