Posts Tagged ‘data center’

How does Your Datacenter Rate?

Monday, January 24th, 2011

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Many businesses looking at building new datacenters announce that they are planning on achieving certification for their new datacenter by an external authority that will evaluate their datacenter and grant a specific status or award to the facility. When the new datacenter gets such a status or award, the company will send out press releases, tell stockholders, and use it in their promotional material, if applicable. But the standard for the current crop of rating entities are consistent only across their own ratings, and there are more groups doing this than you might realize. Here’s the current crop of high-end standards and awards applied to datacenters.

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Why Data Analytics Must Change

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

data-analytics Wanted: people with the ability to see the relationships in big data, says Stephen Brobst, CTO of Teradata

We are running out of people with the imagination, skills and tools to take advantage of the zettabytes of data our information systems are starting to produce, and this shortage promises to become a crisis for businesses that seek to compete based on their capacity to innovate.

The present corporate mantra is to compete using better and faster business intelligence. The ability to transform data into competitive advantage is, therefore, a critical success factor today.

Increasingly, companies are directing their business intelligence activities at operational decision-making as well as strategic decision-making. After all, a strategy is only as good as its execution. In practical terms, this means using new insights to deliver superior supply chain efficiency, risk management, sales execution and customer experiences, so creating sustainable advantage.

We have created more data in the last three years than in the previous 40,000 of human history. We have moved from the exabyte age of storing and analysing transactions to the zettabyte age of storing and analysing interactions.

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Top 10 Strategic Technologies in 2010

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

In one of the latest reports Gartner, the world’s leading IT research and advisory company, revealed its list of top 10 strategic technologies for 2010. The company defined a strategic technology as one which has the potential for significant impact on a business entity in the next 3 years. Factors responsible for such impact include the need for a substantial investment, high potential for disruption to IT, or the risk of late adoption.

These technologies are viewed as strategic because of having enough maturity for entering broad market and providing strategic advantage if adopted early. They also influence the organization’s long-term plans and initiatives.

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