Master data management ‘can improve analytics’
Effective master data management processes can lead to improvements in the accuracy of analytics work, it has been suggested.
This is the view of Sandy Kemsley, an independent analyst and systems architect, who told IT Business Edge that connecting master data management projects with business process management programmes can have considerable advantages for organisations.
"You can get better analytics if you have consistent data models and those consistent data models are going to be helped by master data management, that’s one of the key business benefits," she pointed out.
Java cloud fluffer lands Hudson build brain
Start-up CloudBees has bought the brains behind the Hudson open-source continuous build system, as part of its effort to fluff Java development in the clouds.
CloudBees has bought InfraDNA – a start-up providing software support and services for Hudson – along with InfraDNA’s founder and Hudson creator Kohsuke Kawaguchi. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Why ‘the cloud’ doesn’t matter
Surprisingly, a couple years after "the cloud" first arrived on the IT scene I am still hearing IT leaders speak about it with breathless reverence. Even non-IT executives will proudly announce "Oh, we’ll just put that in the cloud" when any technology-related topic appears in a staff meeting.
The fact of the matter is that the cloud is just another boring make vs. buy decision, and the sooner those in IT management realize this, the less likely they are to build potentially career-ending plans based on clouds and rainbows.
Will x86 Have a Home in the Cloud?
Is it possible that the cloud is poised to remake the entire computing industry in a much more fundamental way than previously imagined? Could the very dominance of x86 architecture be in jeopardy as a new era of Web-based, low-power computing dawns?
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Software-as-a-service solutions ‘reduce IT workload’
Companies which decide to start using software-as-a-service solutions will be able to reduce the workload facing their IT department, it has been explained.
Writing for ZDNet, Ali Hedayati, president and chief operating officer of Coradiant, said that more and more businesses will start using the technology in the next few years, with this upturn being driven by economic and operational factors.
He pointed out that the pay-as-you-go business model in operation for software-as-a-service solutions means low upfront costs for organisations which choose to use the technology.
Gartner: Companies need shift in private cloud security
The security systems of businesses must "evolve" as they move from virtualised data centres towards private cloud infrastructures, according to analysts at Gartner.
Gartner predicts that by 2015, 40 percent of the security controls used within enterprise data centres will be virtualised, up from less than five percent in 2010.