Inside the BriefcaseUnder a bright pair of spotlights, an IT admin wields a shop-vac and metaphorically vacuums up the storage, apps, and backup that is “stuck” in a remote branch office. After returning it to a data center storage array cabinet conveniently located on stage, Eric Wolford, Riverbed President of Products, proclaims, “Your data center now holds everything, it costs less, and it’s completely secure.”
Blogs, Featured BlogsWhile the powers of healthcare IT to radically transform the health of a patient population are widely lauded, one thing that isn’t discussed as much are the areas where the technology could do the most good but doesn’t often reach to. Take Washington, D.C., for example: One of the richest, most tech-savvy cities in the nation, it also has remarkably low rates of obesity. Almost. Taking a closer look reveals that the 8th Ward, a predominantly lower income section of the city populated by minorities has a high level of obesity, skewing the district’s numbers.
Blogs, Featured BlogsIn big data terms, every human being is a rich resource. Students, from enrollment to grades to the clubs they join, generate as much data as any of us. Institutions of both higher and elementary learning are already working towards using this information to better the education they provide, the way they handle different student demographics and even the way they research fields like literature.
Blogs, Featured BlogsDo you sift through your email 50 times a day because you’re afraid of missing something? Or leave a meeting across town and then realize that you could have met with a prospect two blocks from where you were 30 minutes ago? These human errors may soon become things of the past, thanks to the evolution of big data, the cloud and mobility. In the not-too-distant future, mobile devices will have the data they need in order to send the right notifications, just when you need them, ranging from whether a client is nearby to how warm your home is.
Blogs, Featured BlogsShould you rely on your intuition? Or should you trust the facts and forget about your gut? In business, it’s an age-old debate. Steve Jobs was famous for ignoring marketing analysis, stating things like “people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” On the other hand, Time Warner Cableuses data analysis throughout its organization, successfully deciding everything from how many routers to use to which ads to deliver.
Blogs, Featured BlogsOnce upon a time there was a modest young operating system named “Chrome OS.” It tried to live a quiet life helping others, but its ancient roots made some in the mainstream computing world wary. Not only was it one of the first examples of a new type of operating system, focused as it was on the browser, but it was also descended from Linux, the very name of which was still widely misunderstood among the masses.
Blogs, Featured BlogsAnd so the theme was set for Informatica’s annual industry analyst summit held on February 26th to 27th. Informatica’s 2012 performance was a year to forget
Featured BlogsWhen I started working with Marketron more than two years ago, we were in the process of finding a solution that would help us maximize the information that we could cull from our data. Eighty percent of the $15 billion in U.S. radio advertising spend flows through our solutions. We were sitting on a wealth of knowledge. We wanted to pull it into new services for our customer base.
Blogs, Featured BlogsRed Hat announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4, which provided updates to the leading open source operating platform to enable optimal performance and scalability across physical and virtual environments
Featured BlogsTo be a truly successful business, companies have to start from the inside. They have to not only be collaborative, but everyone from the executives and CEO down to the customer service representatives should know the comings and goings of their work place.
Featured Blogscloud computing has become one of the most buzzed-about tech trends and solutions that improves IT and operational efficiency for businesses.
Featured Blogs, NewsMillions of people took to the roads and skies to visit friends and families for the holidays in 2012. In fact, according to AAA, this was the busiest holiday travel year since 2006, with 93.3 million Americans traveling. The news is encouraging to leaders across the travel industry, many of whom are looking for innovative ways to improve and enhance the customer experience. One area getting particular attention is mobile computing. Advances in technologies and services should take more guesswork out of travel and pave the way for increased, more stress-free and smarter travel.
Blogs, Featured BlogsSocial media offers us a chance to improve the communications supporting process improvement. Leading organizations are already using the power of social media to shape their business process management (BPM) agendas.
Running a restaurant can be a risky enterprise, prone to fickle culinary trends and stock overages. Moreover, up to 40% of the U.S. food supply goes to waste, according to a report released last August by the Natural Resources Defense Council. Chicago-based startup Food Genius aims to shine some light on dining trends and ingredient demand using predictive analytics, serving these insights to restaurant owners, food producers, and distributors.
Blogs, Featured BlogsAs we look forward to 2013, Pegasystems Chief Evangelist and VP of BPM Technology Setrag Khoshafian sits down to analyze the industry trends that will become increasingly prevalent over the course of the next 12 months
Featured BlogsIn our recent blogs about the latest Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability, we explained what watering hole attacks are and referenced our research paper about the Elderwood Project. The paper highlights a string of watering hole attacks by the Elderwood group. After revisiting those previous attacks, we have been able to confirm that this latest Internet Explorer zero-day is a continuation of the Elderwood Project.
Blogs, Featured BlogsNow that 2013 is here, we need to make four improvements to cloud computing — and its users
Featured BlogsPeople often ask what is the real difference of cloud computing and “the internet” or “ isn’t the internet already cloud computing”. I often tell them that cloud computing does not equal the internet or vice-versa, the internet is simply the best delivery platform that cloud computing can make use of.
During the past year, we have seen the first steps in a move to software-defined architectures. This has spurred a number of critical trends that are reshaping and having a major impact in the enterprise storage world, setting the stage for 2013 to become the year software-defined storage transforms the data center.
Blogs, Featured BlogsCloud Expo Europe will be 2013’s interpretative cloud computing event. t offers a free to attend world-class conference programme, including over 130 presentations across 9 streams and 8 dedicated theaters.
The economy remains rocky, and launching a new business idea takes some intestinal fortitude and willingness to take risks. But there probably has never been a better time to get out in the marketplace.
Featured BlogsWith 2013 around the corner, trimming costs while enhancing efficiency and productivity is top of mind for organizations. Enterprise communications is a critical place to start, as this landscape has evolved extensively and exponentially over the years, not to mention telecom consistently falls within the top three largest expenses.
Blogs, Featured BlogsThe way to make cloud computing successful is to find the business problems that make sense to attack
Featured BlogsThe “app economy” continues to be a job — or business — generator. For its part, Apple reports that its own App Store is responsible for close to 300,000 jobs in the US alone, up 39% from a year ago.
Featured BlogsJust as we thought that automated transfer systems (ATS) used in SpyEye and Zeus malware families were becoming outdated and less innovative since the discovery of Operation High Roller earlier this year, we have discovered a newly emerging attack targeting the European SEPA payments network.
Blogs, Featured BlogsSymantec’s first State of Information report examined how organizations are dealing with information today, in light of significant changes in the data center. Symantec’s Digital Information Index sheds light on where information is being stored today, as well as some of the challenges that businesses are dealing with as a result of this transition in the way we store and access our information.
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet Within four years, two-thirds of all data center traffic across the world — as well as workloads — will be cloud based. That’s the prediction of Cisco’s second annual Global Cloud Index, which forecasts global data center traffic to grow fourfold between 2011 and 2016, reaching a total of 6.6 zettabytes annually. Read […]
Featured BlogsAs October draws to a close, consumers are breaking out their notepads and starting to compile their holiday gift lists. For their part, retailers are fine-tuning in-store and online workshops for Thanksgiving Day – the unofficial kickoff to the online holiday shopping season.
Blogs, Featured BlogsToday’s rapidly evolving society and markets are not only demanding your company to be productive and efficient, but also to respect and protect the environment. This combination that walks hand in hand is being consolidated over the years and strengthened by the social awareness that looks after future and current interests.
Blogs, Featured Blogs, Top StoriesThe news that Salesforce.com will be getting into the file sharing business comes as no surprise – of course Marc Benioff and team know that their users need access to their files from their preferred applications. It makes perfect senses to us that any cloud-based application vendor, especially in CRM, would provide its users better ways to leverage the cloud to access and share files and collaborate. Arguably, Salesforce has already been in the market for some time, and there is no question that the market for business-grade file access and sharing is taking off.
