Enjoying buzzword status for several months of social media mentions and numerous blog posts, the term Big Data is experiencing criticism and pushback as industry experts attempt to define the elusive concept. It was inevitable – indeed it is a
Scores of cyberattacks, hacks, digital thefts and acts of online espionage against US military contractors, energy companies and other key industries have been traced back to a single facility in the suburbs of Shanghai housing a Chinese military unit according
Cellular traffic data from all over the world is exploding, indicating continued growth in mobile devices due to growing smartphone usage and high bandwidth usage for video streams according to a report released by Ericsson on Monday. By the end
As a young man I read the writings of Issac Asimov and later William Gibson and Vernor Vinge, jaw agape in awe at the future these men imagined for us. It was Gibson and his Sprawl trilogy that I gravitated
In a not-so-subtle bout of irony, Sweden-based torrent site the Pirate Bay is suing an anti-piracy site for pirating its site design. Pirates everywhere… To kick off its latest anti-piracy campaign, intellectual property swashbuckler privateers at the Copyright Information and
In Part one of this blog, I spoke to my desire for analytics and the scary statistics of data growth - where if even half the projected results are correct and we continue to stick to traditional methodologies, data protection and disaster recovery
For reasons obvious to anyone working in the industry, I’ve been falling behind on posting. That’s all going to change – Down to the Block is back and I’ll be posting regularly on important issues facing Big Data, Security and
Marketing leaders today are inundated with talk of Big Data. While loaded with promise, the reality of Big Data is often overwhelming, complex, and stagnant. As Wikipedia tells us, the challenges of Big Data include capture, curation, storage, search, sharing,
BYOD won’t work unless we seamlessly enable the separation of data from the virtual machine that’s used to present the corporate “work-space”. In fact, unless we further segment the BYOD virtual machine’s localized data into corporate and personal data pools,
There are many challenges when it comes to developing, supporting, and storing an organization’s data and applications. And for most businesses these applications and data serve as a lifeline that keeps the company running. One of the challenges data administrators
Data is neither created nor accessed equally. Why then should data be stored and protected using the same technologies?
-A Visionary focused on the data block The pursuit of eliminating the concept of data backup without compromising restorability and online and always accessibility is my current focus.…
