Dangerous trends in big data storage

The trend towards capturing everything to use in big data analytics raises issues around privacy and could come back to bite companies. ThoughtWorks issued the latest Technology Radar that, among other trends, focuses on the contrast between the exciting new insights...

The hard drives of the future

There can be no doubt that hard drives are essential in today’s digital world, and demand for even more storage capacity is driving technological innovation that provide more space, more speed and greater efficiency, says Kalvin Subbadu, sales manager – Components, WD...

Effective archive data migrations

A combination of many factors has necessitated the requirement for Archiving platforms in many larger corporates over the past 10 years. These factors include Legislative and Corporate Governance Requirements, massive volumes of e-mail and other unstructured data, as...

Top storage trends automate, simplify IT

For many IT managers, storage has become too complex, hard to manage and expensive. According to IDC, businesses’ storage demands are growing in excess of 50 percent a year while their total available storage capacity is growing at half that rate. As a result of this,...

Quartile Capital protects critical data

Established in 2008, Quartile Capital is a Johannesburg-based boutique financial services company. It is 100% black-owned and has a Level One BBBEE Contributor rating by Empowerdex.  Quartile Capital provides Corporate Finance, Treasury, Consulting and Investments...