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The four Vs of Big Data are something every storage manager should be looking at, according to Benjamin Woo. The IDC US storage program vice-president said that these are volume, variety, velocity and value.

Forming a successful relationship with Cloud providers comes down to the fine print, Truman Hoyle Lawyers partner, Hamish Fraser, has advised IT departments.

Data governance, risk and compliance (GRC) should be viewed by IT managers as a business asset rather than something for the law firm to deal with, according to an IDC US senior analyst.

Despite the hype around virtualization, there is still a reluctance to virtualize mission-critical applications in the enterprise, according to IBRS analyst, Kevin McIsaac.

Reality mining, tagging data at its source and Cloud reputation agencies are three of the emerging trends likely to come out of the explosion of ‘Big Data’ delegates at the Implementing Information Infrastructure Symposium (IIIS) have heard.

Three quarters of companies are either currently using or plan to use public cloud storage offerings. What's more, all organizations with more than 500 employees are using or planning use of public cloud storage, mostly for e-mail, data protection and front-office applications like CRM, especially SaaS-based CRM solutions such as Salesforce.com.

Understanding what is driving changes in IT infrastructure today is essential to understanding the future of information infrastructure tomorrow, according to technology futurist and strategic advisor, Ross Dawson.

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) today announced the release of a specification that can be used to test the performance of solid-state drives, regardless of the vendor.

Over the past year, four cloud storage service providers have said they're shutting down and Amazon's cloud services have been problematic since Thursday.

Two years ago, when the Desktop Management Task Force (DMTF) announced a standards-building effort for cloud computing, most people involved in cloud computing didn't even have a common definition of cloud computing. Now there are so many categories of cloud computing and so many competing standards that users have a good chance of finding a standard that matches a particular need, but not much chance of moving among them easily, says James Staten, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research.