Category Archives: AI & Machine Learning
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[...]
Smarter Networking for a smarter data centre
How do data centre networks need to evolve as business systems become ever more complex?[...]
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[...]
The workload challenge
Today, IT Infrastructure is evolving at a tremendous pace. The Mainframe computer, now often referred[...]
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[...]
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[...]
Application Retirement: What about the Data?
by Jon Collins and Martin Atherton Introducing application retirement: what’s really important to you? Whatever[...]
High Performance for All
by Jon Collins, Tony Lock and Dale Vile Most medium and large organisations need to[...]
Dynamic Business Intelligence
by Tony Lock and Dale Vile One of the most versatile assets many organisations have[...]