Do you know where your data is?

Dec 3, 2014

The year 2014 has been a big year of progress for organisations in many industries to move their corporate data into hybrid clouds. But what exactly does this mean for data itself, particularly when it crosses over international borders? What is the impact on data...

Protecting a big data environment

Nov 28, 2014

Prevention is always better than cure when it comes to information security, particularly when dealing with today’s big data environments that see a flood of data drowning the enterprise on a daily basis. Gerald Naidoo, CEO of Logikal Consulting, says it’s not only...

Solving your e-discovery challenges

Nov 24, 2014

eDiscovery, the process of discovery in litigation in electronic formats, requires proactive management of information and records for potential eDiscovery requests, says Bryan Balfe, enterprise account manager at CommVault. Various corporates, legal and IT...

Cloud is in, but big data trails

Nov 20, 2014

Although most organisations (97%) use or plan to use cloud, and nearly half have implemented a mobility strategy, big data adoption is trailing as approximately 60% of organisations surveyed do not know how to leverage it. This is one of the findings from Dell’s first Global Technology Adoption Index (GTAI), which uncovered how organisations are truly using security, cloud, mobility and big data to drive success.

Does big data invade your privacy?

Oct 10, 2014

According to Gartner, by 2015, 4,4-million IT jobs will be created globally to support big data, a clear indication that big data continues to make a large impact on organisations – but have you asked your customers for permission to analyse their data? Big data has...