With data breaches making headlines worldwide, CIOs concerned about the security of their companies’ digital assets – and whether their organisations will recover if their data is stolen, lost or...
Navigating the rapids: How CIOs can stay relevant
Mike Alley looks at the challenges facing CIOs operating in an increasingly user-driven business technology landscape – and identifies three key steps that could help smart CIOs to transform IT...
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Five ways to use IT security as a business enabler
Mike Johnson explains how IT security can be more than just an insurance policy against data breaches – and why business leaders also need to consider the benefits.
Optimise your storage for Big Data analytics
For most organisations, analytics is not the priority roadblock when it comes to extracting value from Big Data. Bob Hankins explains why dealing with storage issues is the first job in most cases.
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Spatial intelligence: Understanding the new retail reality
Richard Simmons explains why changing consumer behaviour, driven by technological change since the birth of ecommerce 20 years ago, has been repeatedly mis-understood – and why real understanding...
Tags retail, Business Intelligence, business intelligence, ecommerce, Big Data, Spatial Intelligence, Business Analytics
Six benefits of modernising storage and backup infrastructures
Letting an organisation’s storage and backup infrastructure fall behind the times is fraught with risk – from steeply rising costs and compromised performance to a lack of preparedness if disaster...
Tags storage, Disaster Recovery, Storage and Backup, backup, Business Strategy
Why the GoT is more valuable to the global economy than the IoT
A free gift, a smart 11 year-old and a lightbulb moment have Chris Gabriel asking if the Generation of Things (GoT) is of greater value to the world's economies than the Internet of Things (IoT).
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SDx and The Software Defined City
Chris Gabriel looks at how a UK city is deploying SDN to create a technology-agnostic citywide network that will allow driverless car experiments, traffic and environmental sensor networks, and smart...
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The Private Cloud – what it is not
A firm definition of the ‘private cloud’ is at best transient and at worst, well, cloudy. Kevin Gruneisen sets out a simpler definition - what a private cloud is not.
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What can Jeremy Clarkson teach us about DDoS?
The BBC’s suspension and subsequent decision to sack Jeremy Clarkson, the host of its Top Gear motoring show, has created quite a stir. In the aftermath, Mel Grove wonders what the affair can teach...