Inside the Briefcase
Tableau and Deloitte Enter into Strategic Relationship to Deliver Visual Analytics Services to Clients
December 10, 2012 No CommentsTableau today announced that it has entered into a strategic relationship with Deloitte Consulting LLP
DATA and ANALYTICS
Reducing the Risks of an Analytics Implementation
December 7, 2012 No Commentsby Justin Taylor, StatsliceIn this article, Justin Taylor from StatSlice outlines concepts to help you avoid risks when building an analytics solution. Read More >>>
IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: The Value of Data Center Infrastructure Management with Suvish Viswanathan, ManageEngine, a division of Zoho Corp.
December 5, 2012 No Commentswith Suvish Viswanathan, Zoho Corp.In this interview, Suvish Viswanathan of ManageEngine outlines ways in which DCIM has come to play an integral role in the evolution of the modern Data Center, and offers solutions to some of the DCIM challenges that businesses are facing today. Read More >>>
Amazon Web Services Announces Amazon Redshift
December 5, 2012 No CommentsAmazon Web Services Inc., an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the limited preview of Amazon Redshift, a fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud.
DataStax CEO on Why Big Data Is a Big Deal
November 28, 2012 No CommentsThis week DataStax announced a $25 million C round, which was led by Meritech Venture Parnters. The company is a fast-growing player in the hot Big Data market, which is benefiting from megatrends like mobile, the cloud and social networking.
Get first-hand insight from Google and eBay at TM Forum’s Big Data Analytics Summit!
November 26, 2012 No CommentsBringing together leading service providers, market analysts and all of the big names in Big Data, this forward-looking, education-packed two-day Summit combines keynote perspectives, case studies, debates, panels, interactive sessions and networking opportunities that maximize every participant’s opportunity to network and generate ideas that can be implemented immediately.
Big Data Can Get the Truth From Google
November 20, 2012 No Commentsith European and US regulators looking at whether the company promotes its own services unfairly in search results, and the threat of Android being classified as predatory, the chances of huge fines or detailed regulatory control are being talked up.
Top Mistakes to Avoid in Analytics Implementations
November 16, 2012 No CommentsBernard Wehbe StatSlice SystemsBusiness analytics allow a company to make better decisions and just plain be smarter—but it has to be done the right way. This article talks about important factors in implementing analytics correctly—from picking the right dashboard to understanding what kind of analyst is right for the project. Read More >>>
In the Quest to Achieve Big Data Nirvana, Data Integration is Mistakenly Being Overlooked
November 15, 2012 No CommentsBy Jorge A. Lopez, Syncsort IncorporatedBig Data is everywhere and the buzz keeps getting louder and louder. Take, for example, a simple Google search. If you were to Google “Big Data,” your search would net over 1.18 billion results, and that’s a single search run today. Imagine running that same search next week, next month, and next year. Just like the buzz around Big Data, it’s a safe bet that the amount of results will increase exponentially. Read More >>>
SolarWinds Website Performance Monitoring Solution Supports Sysadmins During Peak Online Shopping Season
November 13, 2012 No CommentsSolarWinds (NYSE: SWI) a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced enhancements to its web application monitoring product SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM), formerly known as Synthetic End User Monitor (SeUM), just in time as systems administrators prepare for increased holiday online shopping demand.
Gartner Business Intelligence & Analytics Summit
November 13, 2012 No CommentsThe Gartner Business Intelligence & Analytics Summit 2013, March 18 – 20, in Grapevine, TX, offers a three day learning experience where you can learn directly from Gartner analysts and expert BI practitioners, hear the latest research findings, take-away actionable insights and also share knowledge and experience with your peers.
Data Center Transformation and its Impact on the Branch IT
November 9, 2012 No CommentsEnterprises increasingly seek to deploy complex branch networks and services while having minimal infrastructure and IT personnel onsite. Riverbed’s Steelhead and Granite products show that, with time, many of the enabling capabilities that have led to datacenter efficiencies – such as consolidation, application server virtualization and cloud services – will extend to branch sites, too.
Analyst Report: The Importance of Performance Management in Software-defined Networking
November 9, 2012 No CommentsOrganizations have achieved significant benefit from virtualizing servers and storage environments, and now face the daunting task of deploying new network architectures to keep pace. Software-defined networking holds significant promise to deliver a new network architecture that is abstracted and virtualized; however, organization would be well served to learn from previous efforts to virtualize other domains in order to avoid making the same mistakes.
IBM Cited As a Leader in Business Intelligence Services by Independent Research Firm
November 8, 2012 No Commentstoday announced that Forrester Research, Inc. has recognized IBM as a market leader in business intelligence (BI) services according to the October 2012 report
Got Virtual Desktops? Strategies for Ensuring Desktop Virtualization SLAs
November 7, 2012 No CommentsDesktop Virtualization is the top cloud-based technology impacting End User Computing. And, user-centric, Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management is the primary factor against which cloud-based virtual desktop solutions and providers are and will be evaluated. If you are currently evaluating, planning, or managing application performance in a Virtualized Desktop Environment, don’t let your VDI project get derailed by poor end user experience.
Pentaho Announces Instant, Interactive Capabilities for Big Data and Mobile
November 6, 2012 No CommentsDelivering the future of business analytics, Pentaho Corporation today announced major new capabilities in Pentaho’s complete data integration and business analytics platform including Instaview, the industry’s first instant big data discovery application and Pentaho Mobile, with the unique capability to create new ad hoc analysis on the iPad.
Riverbed Delivers Network and Application Performance Monitoring to Managed Service Providers
November 5, 2012 No CommentsToday, Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the performance company, introduced two new virtual editions to the Riverbed® Cascade® product family that enable managed service providers (MSPs) to deliver application-aware network performance management (NPM) as a service to their small-to-medium-sized and enterprise customers.
Big data brings big skillset gaps
November 3, 2012 No CommentsThere are big opportunities in big data, but also big challenges for agencies hoping to get up to speed. In a recent poll of 151 federal IT professionals, MeriTalk found agencies have less than half of the storage, computing and manpower they would need to leverage big data – with human capital being the most difficult to secure.
What is Big Data Analytics and Hadoop and How ActiveMQ Plays an Important Role
November 2, 2012 No CommentsBig data analytics is finding value in the massive quantities of structured and unstructured data being collected by enterprises today. Hadoop and NoSQL are technologies that are unlocking the value in the ocean of data being generated, collected and made available. A critical component of a successful Hadoop & NoSQL deployment is the integration into the existing corporate ecosystem.
Make Sure Your IT Can Grow as Quickly as Your Business: The Case for Agile Data Centers
November 1, 2012 No CommentsSteve Carlini, Schneider ElectricAs businesses grow and transform, one of the most important things data center managers and owners can do is to prioritize agility. Most often accomplished through modular, standardized design, agile data centers deploy quickly, scale as needed and can be reconfigured without much hassle. Read More >>>
Benefits of Security and Acceleration
November 1, 2012 No CommentsDon MacVittie, F5 NetworksThe performance of web applications defines an organization. Whether external applications that drive customer research and purchasing or internal applications that keep the entire organization moving forward, performance is critical. Read More >>>
DNS Architecture in the 21st Century
November 1, 2012 No CommentsDon MacVittie, F5 NetworksDNS is the pervasive glue that holds the Internet together. Without it, organizations would struggle to reach new audiences and deliver quality user experiences. But because it is always there, always on, and “just works” almost all of the time, it is often taken for granted. Read More >>>
MicroStrategy Announces General Availability of MicroStrategy Cloud Express, Innovative New SaaS Offering
November 1, 2012 No CommentsNew Solution for “Do-It-Yourself” Business Analytics Enables Anyone to Deploy Brilliant Mobile Apps to Thousands of Users in Less Than One Week
The 4 Phases Of Big Data
November 1, 2012 No CommentsThe combination of smartphones, tablets and connected devices will create a tidal wave of new data for businesses to store and process.
Big Data Analytics, HIE Could Aid Hurricane Sandy Recovery Efforts
November 1, 2012 No CommentsDirect Relief is using Palantir’s data-visualization tools to analyze recovery resource needs as New York State’s health information exchange network enables cloud access to medical records following hospital evacuations.
Litéra Surveys Examine Mobile Device Usage, Document Security and Collaboration Landscape
November 1, 2012 No CommentsLitéra, the leading provider of content lifecycle, collaboration and risk management solutions, today announced the company has launched two global surveys. One survey measures the impact mobile device usage has on business risk, and the other survey assesses how document collaboration tools affect business productivity.
Application of Analytics
October 30, 2012 No CommentsIn this article we will talk about some of the successful applications of analytics. We will start with 2 different examples which I was reading recently from a podcast of Accenture and then move to some of the other industrial examples.
What is Operationalizing Analytics?
October 29, 2012 No CommentsMany organizations are beginning to understand the potential of analytics to combat fraud, improve customer relationships and drive more profitable decisions. However, they’re often applying it as a standalone activity isolated from everyday business operations and decisions, limiting its true value.
Actuate Acquires Quiterian S.L. to Deliver Big Data Analytics and Visual Data Mining to Business Users
October 25, 2012 No CommentsActuate Corporation (NASDAQ: BIRT), The BIRT Company™ – delivering more insights to more people than all BI companies combined – today announced that it has acquired Quiterian S.L., a privately held software company that provides visual data mining, social media analytics and predictive analytics for business and other non-technical users.
IBM Helps Organizations Tackle Industry Specific Big Data Challenges
October 25, 2012 No CommentsBM unveiled a new digital marketing system and big data software designed to help organizations gain actionable insights on the broadest range of data
