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by Bernard Golden Cloud Storage and Backup Benefits Protecting your company’s data is critical. Cloud storage with automated backup is scalable, flexible and provides peace of mind. Cobalt Iron’s enterprise-grade backup and recovery solution is known for its hands-free automation and reliability, at a lower cost. Cloud backup that just works. SCHEDULE FREE CONSULT/DEMO   […]

According to research by Gartner, there will be 6.4 billion connected devices in 2016, up 30% from 2015. Within enterprises, these include generic or cross-industry devices as well as vertical-specific devices that are found only within particular industries. As the Internet of Things (IoT) has pushed enterprise data from both types of devices into the […]

by Bernard Golden If your familiarity with Bitcoin and Blockchain is limited to having heard about the trial of Silk Road’s Ross Ulbricht, you can be forgiven — but your knowledge is out of date. Today, Bitcoin and especially Blockchain are moving into the mainstream, with governments and financial institutions launching experiments and prototypes to […]

In a digital world, the winning organizations will be the ones that successfully find new customers, discover new markets, and pursue new revenue streams using digital channels. New, digital competitors are surfacing in every industry to challenge incumbents. The only way to compete is to evolve, transform, and fully embrace digital technologies. One of the […]

By Chael Christopher, Senior Principal, Business Intelligence, NewVantage Partners Not much of consequence happens without risk. As more organizations realize the value of Hadoop while they look to adopt big data into their technology portfolio, they also need to consider the inherent potential for negative consequences. Big data has opened up a whole new world […]

There’s a myth about cloud security that goes something like this: because cloud servers are managed by a third party, they’re obviously less secure than owned physical infrastructure located in a data center managed by the company. Most businesses recognize that cloud platforms offer advantages compared to owned physical infrastructure. Cloud is more resource efficient, […]

By Jim Whalen, Senior Analyst and Consultant, The Taneja Group Regulated verticals in the U.S. must comply with complex regulations from a variety of government or industry overseers. Healthcare providers are responsible for HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), while banks, investment businesses, and insurance firms must toe the line with GLBA (Gramm-Leach-Bliley). Public […]

Article written by guest contributor: Satyen Sangani, CEO of Alation For me, one of the interesting things about going to Davos is that I was able to get out of the Big Data bubble. In this bubble, everyone believes in the value of data and the inevitability of every company becoming a data driven enterprise.  (Of course, Davos provides an […]

By Sameer Bhatia, founder & CEO of ProProfs Data management is crucial for helping to establish the best possible customer relationships. This practice has become even more important in today’s world of big data. Big data procedures require businesses to concentrate heavily on new ways of sorting through information and getting databases up and running. […]

This guest post is by Jim Whalen, Senior Analyst and Consultant, The Taneja Group Cloud storage has proven to be extremely popular, with multiple Exabytes of data already stored there and the total growing by double digit percentages every year.  And why not – with a cost as low as $0.01/GB/month from hyperscale cloud vendors […]