James Maguire

As the CEO of Hitachi Vantara, Gajen Kandiah leads a company that offers IoT, data analytics, storage, artificial intelligence and cloud computing; in short, all of today’s key emerging technologies. Consequently, his position – overseeing 10,000 employees – requires him to be current with a remarkable mix of trends, yet also to be focused on […]

A new report entitled Data’s Evolution in the Cloud: The Lynchpin of Competitive Advantage explores executives’ attitude toward the essential – and challenging – process of data mining. Based on a survey conducted by The Economist and sponsored by Snowflake, the report details an industry in rapid flux, with big stakes and big challenges in […]

Among the many technologies with potential to completely alter the workplace, clearly robotic process automation, RPA, is a leader. RPA enables companies to save precious staff time by automating many business work processes. It can interface with software – mimicking a human – and perform reams of manual work. Those hours and hours of repetitive tasks that […]

It’s been a raging debate in the data center sector for years now: hard disk drives vs. solid state drives. Regardless of hype, what’s the best deal for your data facility? Both have advantages, and both have their proponents. Certainly the HDD has a stronger legacy position and a lower price point. Yet SSDs are […]

Data analytics infrastructure is area that requires constant deep study to remain current. The very term data analytics infrastructure is itself far from simple. It’s a wide ranging concept that comprises the many technologies and services that support the essential process of data mining for competitive insight. These many elements include managing, integrating, modeling and […]

The average employee may not be wildly excited about data governance. The term may seem dry, perhaps vague, probably really complicated. It has something to do handling information, right? Even upper management tends to be confused about the topic. Yet despite its apparently sleepy profile, data governance is a dynamic, rapidly changing endeavor that plays […]

Early in the evolution of cloud computing – say, about 2012 – many pundits said the public cloud would make data centers obsolete. Yet here in 2021, data centers remain very much alive, with the hybrid cloud providing the crucial link from the legacy world of hulking data centers to the next-gen environment of hyperscale […]

The role of technology – from cloud to data analytics to Zoom – is expected to play an ever greater role in shaping how workers handle their workload in the post Covid-19 world. Certainly today’s technology is enabling; with cloud computing and SaaS and Zoom (and its competitors), workers can handle a heavy task load from […]

As cloud computing continues to grow – seemingly with no end in sight – a key challenge faces businesses: how do they expand their cloud’s functionality to better enable today’s ever-growing workload? That is, how can they run their cloud in the many places where it is now necessary? To address that concern, Oracle has […]

One of the key challenges for data protection in today’s heterogenous environment is that companies have so many different environments: cloud, in-house, remote office, many endpoints. How are companies doing with this challenge? What about monitoring data across this mixed landscape? To provide guidance on data protection in the cloud era, I spoke with a […]