Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
No matter what industry you’re in, your company can’t survive without technology. And these days, even non-technical employees know that technology goes way beyond desktop computers and networks. From smart phones and tablet computers to mobile apps and cloud-based technology, there’s a plethora of technological advancements to not only keep track of, but also to…
by Scott Yara of Greenplum, a division of EMC Pioneering organizations are now working with Big Data, data that is either too voluminous or too unstructured to be managed using traditional database technologies and are employing analytical tools to analyze and make decisions on it. Because of this, the role of a “data scientist” has…
by Lem Lasher of CSC With 2012 now in full swing, it’s already looking to be an exciting year for enterprise IT. As consumer products evolve at the speed of light, the technological line between personal and work continues to blend, and the role of the IT professional continues to evolve. Now more than ever,…
by Neil Saward and Deepak Bharathan of PA Consulting Group What top trends in IT are in store for 2012? Well, expect a number of trends that have emerged over the last few years, such as cloud, mobility, enterprise social media, the “Internet of things” and Big Data, to continue to gain traction with IT…
Tech group The technical workgroup members are responsible for: Assessing the direct and indirect cost of relevant solutions (e.g., storage, processing, resources, BCP, etc.); and Defining a data element cost model. The technical integrated workgroup members are responsible for understanding the cost of existing retention infrastructure and defining a cost model for changes to the…
CIOs and others responsible for corporate technology initiatives are challenged to gain control of the ever expanding amount of data available today. The Taming Big Data series focuses on a solution that builds a sustainable model to keep up with such changes. This solution is to formalize enterprise information management (EIM) programs, thus enabling a…
by Philip Howard of Bloor Research The figures bandied about when you discuss Big Data are as often expressed in exabytes or zettabytes as they are in petabytes. Big numbers. Terabytes rarely get a look in. What is driving this growth in data? Three things: increasing Web-based activity, the ubiquity of mobile devices of various…
CIOs and others responsible for corporate technology initiatives are challenged to gain control of the ever expanding amount of data available today. The “Taming Big Data” series of articles focuses on solutions that build a sustainable model to keep up with such changes. In this article, we will look at formalizing your enterprise information management…
By now, most firms recognize that data is a business asset, and many are investing millions of dollars in cleaning, managing, securing, and harvesting it. These companies are realizing hard cost reductions and competitive advantage, but these benefits come at a cost because defining and implementing an enterprise data strategy is hard. Over the last…
Like just about everything in the so-called “IT Service Management Industry,” the term analytics will provoke many different definitions depending upon whom you ask. For some, it will fall purely into that rarefied realm of IT data warehousing which is, nonetheless, on the rise. For others, it may refer to a predictive self-learning algorithm that…