Data is going up and data is going down. Its endless upward spiral to the
cloud is being lauded as the platform and paradigm that we must now adhere to
for future IT efficiency. At the same time, data is going down. It is being
processed and (crucially here) it is being ‘analyzed' at an in-memory
level, where new speed efficiencies outstrip the power of disk-based
alternative options.
Data is on the move too of course. Mobile data (and most important of all,
enterprise mobile data) is tracing a fast-paced location-aware fluid and
functional vortex around us as the devices now keep up the application
capabilities in this space.
Nokia shipped its latest Lumia 920 handheld with a promise to users that they
have just bought the "world's best business smartphone" no less.
Marketing-speak aside though, the ability to use apps on this type of unit
that differ (by and lar... (more)
If you had to pick a winning news, feature or blog headline to garner maximum
reader interest and the widest potential industry relevance these days then
how about trying... Open Source Mobile Touch-Based Social Chinese Clouds.
Of the eight words in this banner, we can probably say that seven of them
(excluding perhaps ‘based') encapsulate the bleeding and leading edge of
the IT industry at this moment.
Keyword #1: China in your handset
Look at the facts, commercial Linux player Red Hat is pushing massively for
cloud computing growth in China right now. Extolling the virtues of bot... (more)
Dear Mr CIO, how is the year ahead planning program going so far? I know,
sorry, it's a tough one. The deployment and integration of devices, mobile
connectivity points, virtual cloud-based desktop services, security, Big
Data, tablets, mini-tablets and micro-mini-tablets (don't worry, we made that
last one up) all present a multiplicity of challenges.
The hyper-efficient CIO should look back on 2012 first and take stock of
recent developments as the most prudent means of planning for 2013. Commonly
agreed wisdom suggests that migration plans from XP to Windows 7 have now
been p... (more)
The rise of Big Data and the monolithic systems that are now being built on
increasingly cloud-based data models is a reality we cannot ignore.
This reality has popularized discussions relating to the core component
mechanics of many firms' IT stacks.
Key among these technologies is ERP, or Enterprise Resource Planning to
afford it its full moniker. The term can be taken to be a relatively broad
expression as it encompasses software applications that oversee the
management of suppliers, customer service, order tracking and all manner of
demand and supply-related indicators...
..... (more)
Most of us can probably still reference fellow employees (and quite a few
managers) who passed the Internet off as nothing more than a passing fad as
recently as the turn of the millennium.
The "modern" business procedures of 1999 were already pretty slick and
refined and fax machines were a vast improvement over the telex network, so
things were working pretty well thank you very much.
The growth of this so-called "information super highway" was interesting, but
it really just looked like some kind of online HTML-based encyclopedia of
static reference pages that weren't that muc... (more)
Adrian Bridgwater is a freelance journalist and corporate content creation specialist focusing on cross platform software application development as well as all related aspects software engineering, project management and technology as a whole.
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