A growing number of CIOs and IT departments are turning to the cloud to help them gain a competitive advantage for their business, reduce costs and do more with less. Nearly three-quarters of CIOs agreed that they were already using the cloud. NTT Com Security, the company behind the global information security and risk management…
There’s no denying that cloud computing technology is one of the most beneficial technologies that have been developed in recent years, as it provides benefits in terms of capability and cost-efficiency, while also negating the limitations that geographical locations used to bear on IT. However, adoption has been slower than expected, mainly because it had…
Today, business is moving at such a speed that it is creating large volume of digitized data from which some value has to be extracted. The fact is that behind various structured and unstructured data are answers to some of the crucial business questions. Unfortunately, no one sees the answer due to technological limitations. Unbelievable…
Moving data to the cloud can break through barriers in time and place, allowing workers to get to information faster and more easily than ever. But the right approach is critical. To get the best returns on your cloud investments, your enterprise must effectively manage data, as well as integrate it with on-premise assets. This…
CloudTimes announced today that it will partner with CDM Media for the upcoming CIO Cloud Summit, May 7-8, 2013, in New York City. The CIO Cloud Summit is the leading event for C-level executives to address current issues and challenges surrounding cloud computing, and to identify transformational opportunities the technology holds for their organizations. Attending delegates…
Large companies continue to churn out big data. At one time or the other, marketers don’t know how to take advantage of it. In a recent Gartner report, it is expecting that Chief Information Officers will shell out at least $230 billion on technologies related to big data for the next 5 years. To illustrate,…
In a survey conducted by Tecala and released by ZDNet regarding the IT priorities of 136 IT managers and CIOs in Australia, the results revealed that almost 2/3 of businesses plan to increase their cloud computing spending for the next 12 months. Half of the respondents believed that cloud computing and virtualization will be top priorities…
Because cloud computing is still in its early state, we can expect a few organizations taking advantage of being the first ones to take advantage of it. However, it is expected that by 2020 a lot of organizations are already in the clouds. Since is just around the corner, Forrester, an analyst group, says that…
By Molly Stamos Big Data is a “Wild Wild West” movement, with companies in all industries trying to figure out whether to invest in these supercharged analytics projects, and how. The CEO wants the game-changing results he’s been reading about in the press. Yet there are significant risks when it comes to IT investment and…
With businesses these days, data has become as important as time and money. However, managing and storage of data cost money, and the bigger the data that a corporation handles, the larger the expenses. The amount of money required to manage big data is no trivial matter, which is why big companies have implement retention…