Data Management
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5 tips to ensure cloud data quality
News Choose neutral platforms and read providers' fine-print. These are steps companies should take before leaping to cloud, say data management vendors.
Tags: Cloud computing, Database management, Database, Informatica, Cloud, Tool, SLA, remote site, Cloud computing, Environment
Park right expertise to stay e-legal
News Firms need to pull expert resources into dedicated team to comply with digital forensics requests, says consultant, who outlines common pitfalls they should avoid.
Tags: Data Management, Legal, IT project management, IT Governance, E-discovery, Asia, Backup, IT Manager, Singapore, QA
Small businesses in S'pore prone to data loss
News Singapore's smaller companies put critical information at risk as they lack effective systems and best practices to prevent and recover from data loss, according to survey.
Tags: Data backup, disaster recovery, Data Management, Security Management, Security, Data Loss, Data Management, Kroll Ontrack Inc., data retention, IT manager, Security Management
SAP: Days of the database are numbered
News Demand for cloud computing and faster access to data will lead to a future where companies don't need a database, says top SAP executive.
Tags: Databases, Cloud computing, Data Management, Database, SAP AG, Berlin, Vienna, Cloud computing, data management, top executive
Cloud usage bills may turn some off
News Bandwidth fees from heavily moving data to and from cloud may discourage companies to adopt, but some analysts say clouds bring additional value.
Tags: Cloud computing, Bandwidth, Cloud, CRM, International Data Corp., Cloud computing, e-mail, Bandwidth, data management, software-as-a-service
US healthcare experts warn of IT adoption challenges
News Health care providers and other experts challenge U.S. President Barack Obama's assertion that implementing the use of electronic medical records will be easily implemented.
Tags: Business applications, Data Management, Data security, Security Management, healthcare reform, electronic health record, health industry, health care company, network, data management
Cloud storage in cloud requires different mindset
Techguide One of the fundamental requirements for any IT professional deciding whether to embrace or dismiss cloud computing is to first understand it. An expert highlights big picture offerings of storage in the cloud.
Tags: Storage, Web services, Cloud computing, Storage, Web Service, provisioning, Cloud computing, Rick Vanover, Rick, Amazon.com Inc.
Convert batch load processes into real-time processes
Techguide Read one college's efforts to drive inefficiency out of their systems and processes, and allow individual departments to focus more on providing services to students.
Tags: Data Management, Storage, Process, SOA, Database, Business Process, printing, food, billing, data management
NetApp buys Data Domain for US$1.5B
News NetApp says it plans to work Data Domain's de-duplication storage systems--which aim to cut costs and make data management easier--into its own global sales channel.
Tags: Mergers, Data Management, Data centers, Domain, non-GAAP, GAAP, Storage, De-duplication, Sales, net income
US regulator questions cloud computing security
News U.S. federal and international regulators have suggested they may have to re-examine privacy and security standards to take into account cloud computing.
Tags: Data security, Security, Google Inc., European Union, Cloud Computing, FTC, Regulator, Marc Rotenberg, Washington, data protection
Storage and data at the coalface
News Three Australian organizations speak about storage and data management challenges, each with different points of view.
Tags: Data centers, Data backup, disaster recovery, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Virtualization, Storage, human capital management, Glenn Gore, Chris Tayler, NAB, Human Resources
XBRL standard could highlight financial risks
News The IBM Data Governance Council is launching a year-long initiative to try to develop a taxonomy to describe risk in the XBRL business data language.
Tags: Data Management, Data security, XBRL, IBM Corp., Bank Of America Corp., Financial Company, Citigroup Inc., enterprise data management, IBM Data Governance Council, American Express Co.
IBM extends solidDB database-accelerator tech
News The company has announced that its database acceleration cache software will soon work with Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and Sybase.
Tags: Data Management, Databases, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM Corp., IBM DB2, Database, Informix Dynamic Server, Informix Software, Server, Sybase Inc.
Enterprise data won't go to the cloud
News Moving company data to the cloud will prove challenging because of regulatory issues and bandwidth costs, says enterprise content management executive.
Tags: Content management, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Open Text Corp., Regulatory Compliance, Asia-Pacific, Cloud Computing, Small And Medium Business, Enterprise Data, financial, data management
NetApp refreshes data center OS for the cloud
News Storage firm combines its Data Ontap 7 enterprise platform and Data Ontap GX clustered computing platform into single codebase tailored to cloud deployments.
Tags: Protocols and platforms, Supercomputing, Cloud computing, Storage, Cloud computing, high-performance computing, 64-bit, high-performance, data management, disk
