Category Archives: Decision cultures

All the efforts that go into protect, mine, enhance the usability of data for better decisions

Making marketing shoppable: all you need to know about Adimo

Marketing technology firm Adimo describes itself as ‘making marketing shoppable’. It was founded in Glasgow [...]

Why data literacy is the north star for analytics adoption

A key attribute of the coronavirus pandemic has been the role of data in developing [...]

Will Mural be the answer to your collaboration needs?

The current wave of enforced working from home is accelerating the adoption of digital tools [...]

Crossing the AI chasm: risk, enthusiasm and a way to move forward

When it comes to introducing artificial intelligence (AI), there is a gulf opening up in [...]

Is gamification finally finding its stride with business operations?

Gamification is the use of games to encourage particular behaviours, such as an app that [...]

Re-thinking organisations: time for self-service decisions

The benefits of ‘intrapreneurs’, self-organisation and innovation labs have forced many companies to rethink how [...]

When two letters make a huge difference: digitalisation vs. digitisation

There are plenty of jokes told at weddings about the phrases that make for happy [...]

Kanban and Scrum: agile methodologies for thought leaders

Kanban and Scrum are both recognised as agile methodologies, but many organisations struggle to choose [...]

From dashboard to storyboard

Dashboards represent concepts and management tools, and the idea is one  we revisit from time [...]

How Internet of Things (IoT) will change the way that we work

Ever since the invention of the wheel, technology has been changing the way that we [...]

A new symbiosis: humans and machines in cooperation

Almost twenty years ago, Garry Kasparov was beaten at chess by a computer. People started [...]

Hadoop on massive clusters drive social business

Apache Hadoop itself is a ‘software library is a framework that allows for the distributed [...]

Druva adds sharing and collaboration to enterprise BYOD management

Druva has launched its software – a peer-to-peer application allowing users to share files. While [...]

HP stretches across the information management spectrum

Information optimisation is one of three streams that represent HP’s go-to-market leads, the others are [...]

Second look: TIBCO has a few surprises up its sleeve

Under the umbrella of its event enabled enterprise portfolio branding, TIBCO is charging ahead with [...]

Debriefing Software delivering storage management as SaaS

A good start for a business idea is to spot a good niche. One such [...]

The formation of the new business analytics

Business Analytics and Big Data are the next big things judging by the IT industry’s [...]

Scrambling for SSD

The SSD market is very active because it combines a number of factors: new suppliers, [...]

Avere invigorates NAS storage

Avere Systems provides NAS optimisation disk arrays and was founded in 2008. The Avere proposition [...]

The Magic of Six Revolutions

Twenty years ago, in 1997, Irving Fang published a book on the history of mass [...]

ownCloud adds control and compliance to sync and share

ownCloud’s execs Markus Rex and Matt Richards recognise the importance Dropbox has had in redefining [...]

Syncsort reinvents itself as a Big Data company

Syncsort is not exactly a new IT company, but with a new focus on Big Data [...]

HDS pursues storage hypervisors on a rich set of features

HDS was one of the first high-end disk array vendors to launch multi-vendor support in [...]

Tintri – optimising VMware arrays

Tintri was founded in 2008 and produces disk arrays for virtualisation. The company’s VMstore appliance [...]

NetApp – And the array based storage hypervisor model

The NetApp storage hypervisor model fits into the array segment in our view of how [...]

Nimble Storage – Innovation in storage tiers

Nimble Storage is a new vendor and has a new take on delivering better storage [...]

Actifio suggests disruption in storage

Actifio is a new vendor proposing that it has the potential to cause disruption to [...]

Amplidata – Object Storage as Appliances

Amplidata is a private company founded in Belgium in 2008 that since moved its HQ [...]

On the Appropriation of Data

The appropriation of data is what data architects and IT vendors hope will become easier, [...]

Cloudera – Enterprise Arm of Open source

Cloudera is a vendor of an enterprise distribution of Hadoop. It also provides additional software [...]

Caringo – Software Object Storage

A section of the activity comes under the banner of Object Addressed Storage. One vendor [...]

Budding Innovation in Data Intelligence

The market for new vendors operating in the area of storage is budding. [...]

Object Matrix – focused on its niche

Object Matrix is a UK based IT company that develops tier-2 data appliances aimed at [...]

Druva – De-duped laptop backup

Druva Software is a 4 year old company launched in India to deliver smarter laptop [...]

Datastores – the future of intelligent data

The term datastores is emerging in public debate. It has a number of meanings, so [...]

Asigra integrates backup in the cloud

Asigra develops and provides backup and recovery solutions for service providers to deploy and sell. Asigra [...]

VISION Cloud Aims to Sort Out Storage

  Customer scepticism is often proportional to the amount of hyperbole created in the IT [...]

Big Data – Poor Label

The IT industry sometimes chooses to name concepts and trends badly. 'Cloud' is not exactly [...]

Nexenta – Opening Up Arrays

The Nexenta product proposition is simple: buy your disk arrays as software loaded onto commodity [...]

Autonomy Buys Iron Mountain Digital

Today Autonomy announced that it is acquiring Iron Mountain Digital’ assets. This means a couple [...]

Backup or DR?

This blog post applies to situations where DR does not involve instant fail-over. Having been [...]

Business Continuity

Mostly I am happy for people to use the Business Continuity (BC) definition loosely, because [...]

The art of asking the right questions

In Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, researchers discovered that the answer to [...]