Storage costs are increasing for companies engaging in Big Data initiatives. Even though the cost of storage hardware has been declining an impressive 30% year-over-year, those declines are still not keeping pace with data growth, which is often 100% annually or more. That leaves us with a 70% storage cost gap ...
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May 10, 2013
IT Security can overwhelm even the most seasoned security expert when headline-grabbing threats like Spamhaus DDoS are brought to the forefront by media. SolarWinds outlines six security threats that many IT professionals never think they'll face — until they do — and provides best practices to help prevent and manage unwanted threats from becoming a reality ...
May 07, 2013
CIOs must realize that innovation needs to go well beyond the technology used to manage big data, according to Gartner, Inc. To get maximum value, enterprises will need to seek and embrace innovation in the way business problems are analyzed with big data ...
April 23, 2013
Increasing numbers of companies are employing Predictive Analytics technology to better understand their customers, and then capitalize on that information. Organizations want to use this wealth of customer data to create 360-degree portraits of their customers' shopping habits and purchasing patterns ...
April 17, 2013
As demand for Big Data technology and services continues to escalate, all levels of the Big Data technology stack will experience significant growth. Storage will be one of the biggest areas of infrastructure spending for Big Data and analytics environments ...
April 15, 2013
The rapid maturation of application infrastructure technologies and a continued dramatic decline in the cost of semiconductor technologies are paving the way for mainstream use of in-memory computing (IMC). Gartner, Inc. said that although the in-memory data grid (IMDG) market, a key IMC segment, is small, it is likely to grow fast and to reach $1 billion by 2016 ...
April 08, 2013
There are two primary drivers which, when they come together, typically prompt a move to In-Memory. The first is the need for speed. The second is the phenomenal growth in data volumes. When both size and speed matter, the answer may well be In-Memory. Here are five points we recommend considering when moving to In-Memory ...
April 02, 2013
Enormous amounts of data are being generated daily by smartphones, sensors, video cameras, smart meters, and other connected devices, adding to the huge store of information from traditional sources. This "data avalanche" represents a potential gold mine of insights, but a new study commissioned by Cisco reveals that IT professionals and businesses are challenged to extract strategic value from their data ...
March 26, 2013
More than 75 percent of midsize to large businesses are implementing big data-related solutions within the next 12 months — with customer care, marketing and sales departments increasingly driving demand, according to new Microsoft Corp. research.
March 18, 2013
Nearly all IT managers surveyed admit that the very success of a data center is reliant upon proper capacity management, according to responses from a Kelton Research survey, commissioned by TeamQuest Corporation ...
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