Storing, accessing and unlocking the full potential of your data

As we store ever greater volumes of information, and as regulatory requirements evolve, the need for strong information management and governance is greater than ever. At the same time, we want to get as much value as possible out of that stored information. Achieving that while maintaining good governance is one of the biggest challenges facing the modern business.

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AI and analytics? Been there, done that

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Cloud Storage Revisited: What has the last decade taught us?

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Canon comes out of the closet on information management

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Observability and Security: Thoughts on the Cisco-Splunk Acquisition

The tech world is now trying to work out exactly what the news of Cisco’s[...]

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IT Governance for Today and Tomorrow: Minimum Viable Principles

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From Barcode Scanning to Smart Data Capture

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Beyond the Barcode: Smart Data Capture

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Tape is back on the main menu

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Evaluating the Potential of Hyper-Converged Storage

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A straightforward look at SAP master data automation

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Automation of SAP Master Data Management

Solving the dirty data dilemma and laying the foundations for continuous change and optimisation

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Want to become a data-driven organisation? Start thinking differently about change management

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Are tech vendors pulling their weight on fixing fragmented IT?

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The global information access opportunity

Making a business case for investment in modern file data management

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Does application modernisation mean what you think it means?

Most people in IT probably think they know what application modernisation is

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Frustrated with your company’s cloud obsession?

What goes around, comes around

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Singing the key management blues

We need cryptographic keys, but who is going to manage them?

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Distributed Cloud Computing

An emerging strategic imperative for IT leaders

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One SSD to ruler them all

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Ransomware teaches the importance of data protection

Several years ago, around the time that ransomware attacks started making the front pages

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Is ‘suite’ becoming a dirty word?

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SMB-friendly IT solutions are needed

Your business deserves more than a cut-down enterprise offering

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Software-Accelerated S/4HANA Migration

Striking the right balance and maximizing ROI

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Are Your Crucial Database Workloads Ready for the Public Cloud?

How to Choose the Right Cloud Data Option for Your Business

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Evaluating the potential of hyper-converged storage

What to consider when planning for modern IT and the hybrid cloud era

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The business need for simpler storage

What to consider when planning for modern IT in the hybrid cloud era

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Even data fragmentation has gone virtual

Throwback Thursday: If there’s one thing our report from eight years ago reminds us

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EDSFF: a new standard for enterprise SSDs

Bringing NMVe up to date with the needs of the data center

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Data governance in software testing

Throwback Thursday: this week we're going back to 2008

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The importance of modern data archiving

In today’s business world, the value of archiving is greater than ever

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Accelerating your journey to data maturity with S/4HANA Infographic

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The data-driven business – Infographic

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The road to becoming a data-driven business

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Modernizing database technology stacks

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Taming your information sprawl with cloud data management

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Zero Trust: securing the endpoint

How continuous authentication could help secure the work-anywhere world

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Seeking storage flexibility, scalability and automation

Can Software Defined Storage provide some answers?

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Modern Data Protection Revisited

Business advantage is all about ensuring access to data

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It is time to reconsider Server Based Storage

What you thought you knew about storage has changed

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Modernizing database technology stacks

Remember the storage upgrade option

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Network security in the spotlight

Understanding why it can go wrong is key to making the right investment decisions

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The role of machine learning and automation in storage

Drivers, perceptions, readiness and practicalities

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Manage your data, not just your storage

Don’t get burnt by keeping ‘cold’ data on expensive ‘hot’ storage systems

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Analytics-Driven Storage Management

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Modern Data Protection for HCI

HCI has moved on, and data protection for HCI has to catch up

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Updating your data storage plans for the era of cloud

An assessment guide for IT teams

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Taking the drudgery out of analytics

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From data migration to VM mobility

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Why backup to flash

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How hybrid IT changes your data journey

Hybrid IT drives a shift in storage thinking from capacity to service

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Can integrated systems help build hybrid IT?

Things to know when planning your hybrid future

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Golden Copy Storage

What, why, when and how?

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Storage and Data Center Evolution

The role of NVMe and NVMe-oF

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Storage Investment Woes

Analyst Blog

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The real value of NVMe is end-to-end

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Are you ready for NVMe?

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NVMe – The State of Play

Is the new protocol ready to take the storage world by storm?

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HCI solutions & SAP HANA

Modern systems for modern software

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Data Centre Evolution

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Storage in the Era of NVMe

An Evaluation Guide for IT Teams As an IT professional dealing with storage, you will[...]

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Choice in a Shifting Landscape

A Business Perspective on Enterprise Storage in the Age of Flash and NVMe As you[...]

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NVMe: a fresh start for storage

It’s time for a real change, not just iterative AFA evolution

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Persistent Container Storage: The Business Case

Considerations for organizations deploying containers in production

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Moving to HANA

Key migration considerations for SAP HANA and S/4HANA

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Dealing with the GDPR Challenge Infographic

The catalyst for a move to modern data protection

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Data Protection Revisited – Business

A risk review and investment guide for business executives

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Data Protection Revisited – IT

A risk review and investment guide for IT professionals

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All-in-one Data Protection

Taking the pain out of information management

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GDPR: the Security Dimension

Information security, governance and regulation in harmony

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Data Management for a Digital World

Turn GDPR compliance and ransomware defence to your advantage

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Privacy lessons from the fitness fiasco

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Information management is going mainstream – at last!

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GDPR’s latest gift? Class action privacy cases

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Getting a grip on the GDPR

Here's our tips on how to plan rather than panic

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The less-hidden benefits of modern Flash

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Storage modernisation

An evaluation and decision guide for IT teams

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Data loss and the “I’m alright” fallacy

How your business’s survival could depend on resilient storage

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Modern Storage for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses

Advanced solutions deliver SMBs power and simplicity

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All-Flash Arrays

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The 2nd Generation All-Flash Opportunity Infographic

  Content Contributors: Dale Vile & Jack Vile

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Getting into Software-Defined Storage

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Understanding Software-Defined Storage

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The Enterprise Flash Imperative

From expensive luxury to essential enabler

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Five years later, the hybrid cloud is real

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Getting all-flash storage investment approved

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Rethinking long term data management

The emerging role of active archiving

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Unleashing the full potential of all-flash arrays

The network is part of the system too

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Enterprise Flash – The New Normal?

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Poor capacity planning is not our fault

Sysadmins explain why things are so crap

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Big questions for those looking for answers in big data

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All-flash storage uncertainty and doubt

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A peek behind the AI bandwagon

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Data encryption must be a priority for the digital business

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Everyone’s talking about Dedupe

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Taking Sales Performance to the Next Level

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Cyber Security Ownership and Responsibility

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Why are backup and recovery measures often not as robust as they should be?

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Building a Curated Digital Hub

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Tackling End User Content Sprawl

In a nutshell The problem of content sprawl has been around since the early days[...]

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IBM’s Spectrum Suite of storage tools is going to be a hard sell

IBM’s announcement of a storage suite with per Tb pricing is a natural move following[...]

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Enterprise Storage Architectures

Enterprise scale up storage arrays have traditionally been expensive to acquire and complex to manage.[...]

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Key Advances in Storage Technology

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Modern Storage Options for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses

If you work in a small or medium-sized business environment, storage is probably something you[...]

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Data Protection and Management in a Box

In today’s fast-moving, information-intensive business environment, data management is more of a challenge than ever.[...]

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Ceph as an Enabler of Growth and Scalability

A perennial problem with storage is how to deal with escalating requirements in a smooth,[...]

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User-Centric Mobile Security

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You can do more with backup than just cloning your data

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What hyper-converged storage really means for you

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Evolution of the OpenText portfolio

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Storage Quality of Service Management

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The Impact of VMware VVOLs on Storage

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Data Virtualisation for DevOps

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The Promise and Practicalities of Flash

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Data Protection and RAID

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Hyper-Scale Data Management

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Insurance through the Looking Glass – Video

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Insurance through the Looking Glass

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The IT vendor empathy gap

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Information Management and Access in the Public Sector

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Building an open cloud: Say no to silos

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The Business Value of Data Protection

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

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The Data Protection Imperative

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Data Protection as a Business Enabler

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Solutions for driving better B2B integration

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Freedom without Anarchy

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

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Next Generation Data Management and Analytics

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Analytics and Big Data

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

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Why you need an interactive archive

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

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Lessons from B2B high performers

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

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Electronic trading dogged by information issues

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

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Big Data and Analytics

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

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Lack of Understanding inhibits adoption of Big Data

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

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Datacentre in a box – Something for everyone?

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

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The Big Data Revolution

Big Data suffers misuse but at its heart is really about getting more value from[...]

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Effective B2B Integration

The way in which organisations communicate and transact across supply and demand chains has a[...]

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What should CIOs be demanding of Storage Vendors?

In most organisations the acquisition of storage and its associated management tools was, until recently,[...]

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Agility without anxiety

Dale Vile met up with Perforce’s Mark Warren to discuss how to do agile development[...]

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Data fragmentation challenges restrict business flexibility

Business must be ready to respond to rapidly changing market conditions. For any organisation to[...]

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BPM from back office to front office and beyond

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Beware of what you ask – you might just get the answer

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Fast Forward to Big Data

Does ’cloud’ have a roll in providing customers with access to new data sources to[...]

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Meeting the information needs of disparate stakeholder communities

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Managing Big Data

By Andrew Buss Way back in the mists of time, when computers were first developed[...]

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Is Big Data just Big Hype?

If the deluge of headlines and vendor marketing materials is anything to go by, ‘big[...]

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Keeping Score in the Public Sector

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Big data storage technologies – “Rip and replace” or “Complementary”?

All too frequently the IT industry gets caught up in a whirlwind of marketing stories[...]

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Information management: technology investment pays off

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Storage Through the Looking Glass

Talk of storage technology makes business people yawn, but the state of the storage infrastructure[...]

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The Business of Electronic Data Storage

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CA ERwin – Getting reacquainted with an old friend

Back in the deep dark past, when I designed and optimised relational databases for a[...]

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Winners and losers in the information race

The mainstream media generally portrays the financial services industry as being in a total mess,[...]

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Big Data in Context

By Freeform Dynamics We wanted to gain practical insights into the context for some of[...]

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Information management in financial services

With decision making among banks under so much scrutiny, the important question arises of how[...]

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Oracle fleshes out its ’big data’ portfolio

I couldn’t say this for certain, but I get the impression that the marketing noise[...]

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Enterprise social media revisited

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Unlock the business value of your information

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How big is Big Data?

‘Big data’ is one of those ‘buzz’ terms that is difficult to avoid, at least[...]

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Bridging the information gap

The pace at which modern business tends to move has resulted in a situation where[...]

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Building tech for the flexible worker

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Big data in Context

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Moving Information Management Forwards

By Tony Lock & Dale Vile Locating and accessing information required to run the business[...]

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Data retention, FOI and the storage budget

The data retention policy in too many organisations has historically boiled down to ‘keep everything[...]

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The storage boom and bust cycle

More data more often than not means more disks. It was ever thus – but[...]

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The Business Information Illusion

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Big data and the cloud

One of the big advantages of cloud computing is scalability in terms of both server[...]

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End User Productivity Revisited

Despite the plethora of ‘productivity solutions’ available from IT suppliers, why is it that real[...]

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Information is a right, not a privilege

By Dale Vile Organisations today rely on effective management of business performance at all levels.[...]

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Cloud and Storage

By Tony Lock The topic of “Cloud” has not escaped the attention of anyone in[...]

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The other enterprise desktop

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Visualisation into action

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Information in action

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Data Protection Basics

Some things in life, such as taxes and the music of the younger generation, have[...]

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Intelligent cacheing for optimised storage

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Why does information management matter?

Getting the right information to the right people at the right time sounds like a[...]

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BI 2010 – the state of play

By Jon Collins Information continues to grow, and yet the challenges we face in managing[...]

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Putting ’I’ back in ’CIO’

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Resurrecting old jargon. BI versus decision support?

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Information versus the silos

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Understanding your information assets

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BI versus Decision Support

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Protective Monitoring

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Search: What are you looking for?

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Application Retirement: What about the Data?

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Dynamic Business Intelligence

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Information Management in the Retail Sector

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Data Retention

by Jon Collins and Martin Atherton Earlier last year we conducted some research on the[...]

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Missing Metadata

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What governance can really mean to business

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Data Governance in the Software Lifecycle

by Martin Atherton, Jon Collins and Dale Vile Many organisations have been driving improvements in[...]

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Data Governance in Software Testing

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Information Governance

by Martin Atherton and Jon Collins Forward thinking organisations no longer just talk about governance,[...]

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Business Performance Management

by Dale Vile and Martin Atherton As markets become more complex and dynamic, is the[...]

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Centrally Managed Protection of Critical Business Content

By Jon Collins and David Perry The last few years have seen a revolution in[...]

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