Data Management

Reducing cost and increasing efficiency key considerations over the coming year, according to IT executives responding to a CIO UK survey supported by Intel

With a focus over the next year on cutting costs and increasing efficiency, CIOs expect the cloud to overtake mobile developments as the second largest driver of transformation at their organisations behind data analytics, according to CIO UK’s CIO Priorities survey. But with clear mobile strategies which are in the deployment and pilot stages, the UK’s business technology leaders are anything but ignoring the current mobility explosion. read more

Reducing cost and increasing efficiency key considerations over the coming year, but data and analytics still leading the way in driving transformation

The cloud is poised to overtake mobile as the second largest driver of transformation for CIOs, a study of our readership shows, while data analytics will remain the leader for business transformation agendas for another year. read more

Is it time to spring clean your storage?

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The facility will also be available to a community of ISVs

Oracle has announced the opening of a new data centre in the UK to support the government’s G-Cloud initiative, following a similar move by Salesforce.com earlier this month. read more

Announcement continues SAP's emphasis on the in-memory database technology

SAP's HANA Cloud Platform, consisting of the core in-memory database plus application development tools, analytics and integration services, will eventually underpin all of its cloud-based applications, the company said at its Sapphire conference. read more

Building retail Big Data strategies on a Foundation of in-store insights

There is a lot of misinformation about what Big Data is (or isn’t) and why it may impact retail. Therefore, understanding the standard definition of Big Data is a must. Download this white paper to discover the 3 V's that define Big Data. read more

Best practices for Oracle WebLogic Server deployments against a highly available database

High availability and scalability are often the focus in different systems enabling customer applications with cost efficient solutions. There are various known issues in a heterogeneous complex environment involving Java EE middle tier and backend databases. read more

20% admit to not masking or protecting their customer data

A fifth of CIOs (20 per cent) admit to not masking or protecting their customer data before providing it to outsourcers for mainframe application testing purposes. read more

New XC30-AC system offers HPC architecture for half a million dollars

Supercomputer manufacturer Cray has expanded its portfolio of systems for the technical enterprise market. read more

File management and synchronisation system will be able to work with both public and on-premises storage

EMC is getting ready to make Syncplicity's enterprise file management system work with hybrid clouds just a year after acquiring the company. read more