Tag: Data

Recent research from Gartner revealed that more than three quarters of companies are investing or planning to invest in big data by 2017. As...

The initial wave of cloud migration has been about relocating workloads to cloud infrastructure. As business confidence in public cloud platforms increases, the pace of...

How IT managers and disaster recovery planners can prepare for unpredictable weather

In May's #CloudInfluence special report we look at the big five tech vendors and their competition in the three big battlegrounds Cloud, Big Data, & IoT.

On March 17th 2015, IBM announced the highly anticipated details of their partnership with Twitter. They will be working on industry-first cloud data services that allow the extraction of actionable business data insights from Twitter data by business professionals and developers.

‘The cloud’. Used in this popular singular form with the definite article, it suggests that there really is a single, nebulous entity where computing and storage magically take place. Of course reality is that “the cloud” is a network of data centres, and within those, a network of servers and storage nodes. So when you put data in “the cloud”, where is it exactly?