Protect Your Assets Today’s business systems must be available on demand 24 x 7 x 365. Organizations depend on the latest technology to help differentiate them in the marketplace, increase sales, reduce costs, and provide peace of mind. As the IT environment grows, server and storage sprawl takes over. Organizations end up with massive amounts […]
Integracon’s Data Center Management and Hosting
Virtually every business decision involves IT, and in a business where early adopters gain competitive advantage, IT responsiveness and agility matter. Yet, many IT organizations struggle to meet business needs in a timely manner due to the fact that their applications and services run on infrastructures that are costly to manage and challenging to change. […]
10 Smart Government IT Trends
In a recent symposium on smart government, Gartner Research analysts suggested that social, mobile, cloud and information are converging and driving innovation that will help establish and develop smart governments. Gartner offers 10 related IT trends that will play a key role in the coming years (see Gartner Newsroom). What is smart government? It might […]
Master Data Management Offers 360-degree Customer View
Successful CRM optimization will require a commitment to Master Data Management according to a recent press release from Gartner Research. In fact, Gartner goes so far as to say that CRM leaders who fail to invest in MDM will suffer up to 25 percent loss in potential gains by 2017. A thorough commitment to MDM […]
Big Data is Changing Our Lives
To say that “big data is changing our lives” seems obvious enough, but sometimes relating big data to our day to day existence may not always seem so obvious. Rick Smolan makes brings these changes to life through his photography, book and talks about “The Human Face of Big Data.” While researching for the book, […]
Small Data Centers for SMBs
As SMBs realize the need for processing, analyzing and protecting data, they face the challenge of effectively managing and developing a small data center within the organization. Managing a data center in an SMB context often means juggling a range of challenges like budget constraints, cultural boundaries and perceptions, and spacial limitations. IT World recently […]
Green Data in a Culture of Consumption
In spite of the image of environmental friendliness among hi-tech companies, it turns out that many of these companies are high level energy wasters. The New York Times has conducted extensive research into the information industry, and the results are dismal at best. James Glanz at NYT writes, “Most data centers, by design, consume vast […]