Pay Attention to Your Data, and Your Data Will Pay Dividends to You Even a decade ago, few anticipated that data would grow so powerful, so important, and do so as quickly as it has. Today managing data growth has become more crucial than ever. Fortunately there are concrete ways to benefit from smart data […]
It’s a fact of life in modern business and industry: You’ll amass more data by the end of the month than you likely did over an entire 12 months just a few years ago. The bottom line is that data isn’t going away any time soon, and it grows in quantity and importance with each […]
By now we’ve all heard about the major shift to the cloud. In this visual infographic you can visualize how explosive the growth was in 2015. The findings of a recent study by Synergy Research Group, show 28 percent annual growth and a total of $110 in the cloud market. Feel free to share this […]
Imagine for a moment that you’ve got a large percentage of your mission-critical applications hosted offsite in what you believed was a secure data center. Then you get a call: The unthinkable has happened. Due to a fire at the facility, IT assets hosted by hundred of clients — you included — has been destroyed […]
Success on the cloud is all about making the right connections, gathering as much information as possible, and keeping everything in sharp focus. All were available in abundance at the Next Gen Cloud Conference, held December 8-10 at the Marriott Marquis in San Diego, California. The show was a meeting of the minds of sorts, […]
In our last post we covered the basics of the cloud. Now it’s time to look at some of the key potential benefits of cloud services. One of the most important advantages to cloud computing, from a business standpoint, is the cost savings that can result from using cloud-based services. Rather than making huge investments […]
Cloud computing is forever changing the way organizations deliver IT to end users. Whether it’s applications such as email and customer relationship management, or data storage and high-end processing, the cloud has dramatically altered the corporate technology landscape. Cloud services offer potential benefits such as cost savings, increased agility and the ability to easily scale […]
Whenever you hear about a company’s hesitation to move applications and data into the cloud, concerns about information security are likely to come up. IT executives worry about the safety of putting data in the hands of a third party. There’s a great irony in this, because in many cases cloud service providers offer even […]
Come September 30, 2015, IBM will be ending support for its iSeries v6r1 and v6r1m1 operating systems. IBM will be offering extended support options; however, if you don’t upgrade before the September 30 deadline, you will run the risk of incurring high support fees. Although the deadline is looming and the migration process seems like […]
Today we will cover the final two misconceptions as laid out in IBM Systems Magazine’s May 2015 article “Infrastructure Matters: Myth or Truth”. Number nine on the list is “big data and analytics is only about social media analytics”. Yes, gathering and studying social media analytics is a big trend these days. Organizations are continuously […]
