Enterprise Applications | Guest Opinion | Elias Terman Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Social media has become a valuable source of feedback for businesses that are wise enough to leverage the data it produces. For example, sales teams can keep an eye on their happy customers and their competitors’ unhappy customers. Continue Reading »
Enterprise Applications | Guest Opinion | Robert Greene Monday, October 31, 2011
Big Data is currently the talk of the town, and for good reason. McKinsey & Company best quantified everyone’s excitement in a report earlier this year noting that, for example, the U.S. health care system could realize $300 billion in potential annual value by leveraging data more effectively. Continue Reading »
Data Center | Guest Opinion | Louis Imershein Wednesday, October 26, 2011
High-performance storage is a key enabler for mission-critical applications in the enterprise today, particularly in the areas of database indexing, online transaction processing, desktop and server virtualization, front-end Web serving, and key infrastructure (such as email and messaging). Continue Reading »
Enterprise Applications | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Monday, October 24, 2011
"Real time" is one of those concepts that is open to a lot of interpretation. But if IBM has its way, the definition of real time is going to be: a sub-second response time in analytic applications that are working with ever increasing amounts of Big Data. Continue Reading »
Data Center | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Monday, August 22, 2011
There’s a lot to rightfully complain about when it comes to data management. Most IT organizations don’t really have any effective data management policies in place, which generally results in low utilization rates of expensive primary storage systems. Continue Reading »
Enterprise Applications | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Wednesday, July 20, 2011
The problem with middleware these days is that it’s everywhere. It seems like every time that more than two applications need to be integrated, a piece of middleware has been deployed to handle the task. The trouble is that this has led to a lot of middleware sprawl because most of these middleware deployments are tactical, as opposed to being part of IT strategy. Continue Reading »
