Effective data management ‘requires several strategies’
Companies looking to improve their data management standards in terms of business intelligence need to pursue several different strategies, it has been advised.
According to IT Business Edge blogger Loraine Lawson, organisations are gradually beginning to realise that they will not be able to make use of clean and integrated data without putting in some hard work first.
She said the messages that have been put across by data management experts appear to be getting through to businesses.
Sky’s the limit for TechnologyOne software rebuild
Announcing the complete re-engineering of the company’s software ‘from the ground up’, TechnologyOne chairman, Adrian Di Marco, said today the new cloud computing strategy would help its customers “migrate to realise major operating and capital expenditure savings.”
Forrester: Many cloud projects will fail, and this is good
Forty percent of companies are still to be convinced of the benefits of cloud and have no plans to adopt such a service. That’s according to a survey from Quest Software, which also found that the need to reduce costs was still the main driver for those companies that have adopted cloud services.
Cloud market triples in four years
While previously most cost saving debate about the cloud has focussed on the ability to cut capital expenditure by using a cloud service, Gartner vice president Nick Jones, today said that some organisations were “saving 50 per cent of their operational costs,” by moving to the cloud.
This saving he said was increasingly being seen as a source of innovation funding for CIOs who were still strapped for cash.
As a result demand for cloud computing services will grow at more than 20 per cent over the next four years, reaching $US150 billion by 2014 – three times the market’s current size – according to Gartner.
Amazon Gets Graphic With Cloud GPU Instances
IBM & Friends Tackle Future Of Cloud Storage
IBM has announced plans to develop a smart cloud storage architecture over the next three years. The EU-funded joint research initiative, estimated at $21.5M, involves 15 European partners. Called VISION Cloud — Virtualized Storage Services for the Future Internet – the group plans to develop a new approach, where data is represented by smart objects that include rich information describing the content of the data and how the object should be handled, replicated, or backed up.
Abiquo Gives CIOs More Control Over Cloud Computing
Abiquo, which bills itself as an enterprise cloud management software company, has released version 1.7 of its flagship software for a company to set IT business policy and apply that policy to physical or virtual data centers and even to third party hosting providers. Abiquo 1.7 overcomes some of the major impediments to wider adoption of cloud computing, which is the inability of a company to decide what IT resources are available to them, said Peter Malcolm, CEO of Abiquo.
"Today that decision is made almost exclusively by humans, and that is the barrier to cloud adoption," Malcolm said.
IBM and European Partners to Pioneer New Storage Cloud Architecture
Cell-Phone Chips to the Rescue
It takes energy to run the computers inside data centers—and then more energy to cool them down. With demand for cloud computing growing rapidly, the companies that run these centers are looking for ways to save on energy costs. The microprocessors inside their computers look to be an ideal target.
For years, Intel and AMD have dominated the microprocessor market with high-performance chips. But as the cost of cooling chips becomes a bigger issue, these companies will face competition from low-power upstarts, some of which use chip architectures originally developed for cell phones and other mobile devices.
Should Companies That Use Open Source Software Pay a Tithe?
Gabriel Weinberg, founder of search engine Duck Duck Go, isn’t religious, which is one of the reasons he’s comfortable calling his latest project a "tithe," despite the connotations attached to the term.
Just about every startup on the planet benefits from the use of open source software–everything from database software PostgreSQL to the Apache web server–which is free to use.