by Informatica on January 24, 2012 – 12:10 am
Gartner hosted a webinar on January 10, 2012: Gartner Worldwide IT Spending Forecast. One of the topics covered was industry IT spend for 2012.
In covering that topic they made a point of saying that due to severe flooding in Thailand, they expect storage to become in short supply (as much as a 29% global shortfall) through the end of 2012. It is expected that the price of storage/GB will increase as a result and supplies will fall short of demand. They recommended finding alternatives to purchasing storage to keep costs down. Read More »
by Judy Ko on November 29, 2011 – 10:36 am
This is the second in a series of myth-busting posts. Myth #1 was “Apps and Data Live and Die Together“.
Myth #2: When embarking on an application modernization initiative, either doing a significant application upgrade or entirely replacing legacy applications, you really only need to focus on the application and making sure that it aligns with your business processes.
Fact: Managing and migrating data is a top priority in any application modernization initiative, and neglecting the data can introduce huge risk to the project. Read More »
by Claudia Chandra on November 28, 2011 – 12:12 am
A recent IDC report says that we should expect enterprise spending on private cloud storage will grow by 28.9% between now and 2015. At the same time, the report also indicates that big data and archival are among the key drivers of this growth. It is not surprising that organizations are seeking new cost savings alternatives. Private and public cloud deployments are just the next extension of outsourcing. By definition, archived data are inactive data that’s infrequently or rarely accessed, and perhaps needed only for compliance audits or eDiscovery. It is therefore ideal for storage in the cloud. Cloud storage also accommodates for the on demand, elastic growth of aged, archived, and retired data. Read More »
by Informatica on November 21, 2011 – 12:11 am
The “Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act” has recently been passed by the US federal government to regulate financial institutions. Per this legislation, there will be more “watchdog” agencies that will be auditing banks, lending and investment institutions to ensure compliance. As an example, there will be an Office of Financial Research within the Federal Treasury responsible for collecting and analyzing data. This legislation brings with it a higher risk of fines for non-compliance. Read More »
by Informatica on November 16, 2011 – 10:46 am
According to an article written by Mark Brunelli interviewing James Kobielus of Forrester Research: Forrester’s Kobielus: It’s time for a Hadoop standards body, Hadoop is still a bit immature and needs adoption of standards. Mr. Kobielus goes on to indicate that when implementing Hadoop, “whether it’s through a data warehouse or Hadoop cluster, you’re talking about petabytes or multiple hundreds of terabytes worth of storage.” Hadoop, while designed to access these large data volumes (which can include social media data), does nothing to manage retention of that data. Read More »
