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Why today more than ever, Big Data is the big issue
Six safeguards to help ensure your BIM investments deliver real benefits
You will have seen the corporate urge to squeeze maximum value from the vast amounts of data that are now available, and many have turned to Business Information Management (BIM) as a way of getting to grips with this data explosion. more...
Storage Indepth
CIO Profile: LGC's Gideon Kay on tech supporting science activities
The varied business models used by the organisation heaps complexity on the IT infrastructure
LGC's four businesses led to a spagetti of tech, which its IT boss has managaed to rationalise more...
CIO Profile: EasyJet's Trevor Didcock on his IT strategy
Customer data effectively used to hone the business offering
Big data is a real challenge for airline IT leader more...
Firms face a data deluge, says CIO Hitachi survey
CIOs are reassessing their data storage and management strategies in the face of an ever-increasing tide of information
CIOs are reassessing their data storage and management strategies in the face of an ever-increasing tide of information more...
Welsh rugby’s virtualised power play
Hyper-V setup adds to centre of IT excellence
Switching to a virtual infrastructure helped Craig Phillips of the Welsh Rugby Union keep data flowing freely more...
Virtualisation still a step too far for many public sector bodies
G-Cloud expert finds some local authorities still clinging to the past
The demonstrated savings make virtualisation a no-brainer, says former G-Cloud director Andy Tait, so why has so much of the public sector not got on board? more...
The next industrial revolution is coming to a data centre near you
The inevitable onset of IT automation will have deep-rooted consequences to your IT department
The exponential adoption of IT automation practices will inevitably reduce staffing requirements within infrastructure and operations teams more...
Do you know what you know?
5 steps for CIO to maximise the value of the information their company stores
You already have a rich treasure trove of customer information, but it's buried under a pile of useless data. Here's how to sort the nuggets from the slag more...
Why I’m backing Moore’s Law
Technology's rapid growth still takes us by surprise
While they foresaw flying cars and robot maids, 1920s futurologists missed out the IT industry altogether. Is the future still taking us by surprise more...
Bells in the dark
Computer security vendors can spend too much time stopping break-ins and not enough preventing break-outs
Computer security vendors can spend too much time stopping break-ins and not enough preventing damaging and far more common break-outs more...
Storage news
Amazon cuts price of S3 cloud storage
Amazon Web Services gets less expensive for greater volumes of data
Amazon Web Services gets less expensive for greater volumes of data more...
EMC plans VMware integration for VFCache storage
Larger capacity and less expensive units on the way
EMC has big plans this year for the VFCache flash storage it introduced on Monday, with the coming enhancements including SSDs, 1TB cards, integration with VMware and less expensive MLC flash media. more...
EMC launches Project Lightning PCIe cards
Project Thunder to follow in Q2 as an all-flash appliance
Project Thunder to follow in Q2 as an all-flash appliance more...
EMC launches Isilon NAS with Hadoop integration
EMC has updated its Isilon scale-out NAS appliance to provide integration with the HDFS protocol
EMC has updated its Isilon scale-out NAS appliance to provide integration with the HDFS protocol more...
Toshiba and Fujitsu announce massive Q3 losses
Toshiba and Fujitsu both still expect a profit for the full fiscal year, but have slashed their forecasts
Toshiba and Fujitsu both still expect a profit for the full fiscal year, but have slashed their forecasts more...
SAP to deliver core ERP on HANA in-memory database
More ammunition for SAP drive to migrate applications customers from Oracle's database
SAP plans to roll out support for the ERP module within its flagship Business Suite product family on the HANA in-memory database platform in the fourth quarter of this year, according to executive board member and technology chief Vishal Sikka. more...
EMC to refresh VMAX Symmetrix array, but warns of HDD shortages
VMware will announce upgrades to all of its major product families as EMC outline product roadmap
EMC CEO Joe Tucci offered a high-level overview of the company's product roadmap yesterday, which includes a refresh of its VMAX Symmetrix array, its VNXe hybrid array and the general availability of its embedded flash storage product for servers. more...
Computacenter helps Jaguar supplier Unipart deploy IBM SAN
Unipart's new storage array means Jaguar can relax about capacity
Unipart Logistics, a supply chain service company that delivers parts for Jaguar cars, has been working with Computacenter to implement a new storage solution for the company enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. more...
Google acquires IBM email and backup patents
E-commerce, advertising, mobile technologies and database tuning patents also on the list
Google has acquired more IBM patents, adding more than 200 to approximately 2,000 patents it had previously bought from IBM. more...
Intel tells data centre managers to turn up the heat
IT managers can save money and reduce their carbon footprint by increasing the temperature in the data centre
Intel is advising its customers to increase the temperature in their data centres, claiming that companies can save four percent in energy costs for every 1ºC they turn up the heat. more...
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