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  • Big Data, analytics get even bigger, hotter in 2012

    Every enterprise software vendor will tell you how hot and in-demand their products are, but the notion rings fairly true with respect to BI (business intelligence) and advanced analytics. The products just kept selling throughout the global recession, as companies looked to gain insights into their business and subsequently, more efficiency as well as new ideas.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 24 Dec. 11 03:01

  • Information glut costing Australia $3 billion a year: Survey

    Unstructured data coupled with IT outages could be costing the Australian economy up to $3 billion each year, according to storage vendor Hitachi Data Systems (HDS).

    Written by Hamish Barwick • 29 Nov. 11 08:10

  • Australian Leisure and Hospitality Group saves $200,000 on data warehousing costs

    The Australian Leisure and Hospitality Group (ALH) has saved $200,000 a year after moving its data warehousing from Oracle to Microsoft.

    Written by Lisa Banks • 16 Nov. 11 10:41

  • AE Smith looks to business analytics for competitive edge

    Australia’s largest privately owned mechanical services contractor has rolled out business analytics software across its business to increase its competitive edge.

    Written by Lisa Banks • 14 Nov. 11 15:12

  • Strategies for pruning data in the Cloud

    Year after year, the cost of disk space has plummeted. Since you can pick up a terabyte for $50, it's often seemed a false economy to be careful with storage.

    Written by David Taber • 10 Nov. 11 08:49

  • Informatica rolls out data parser for Hadoop

    Informatica has strengthened its hand in the burgeoning market for Hadoop, the open-source programming framework for large-scale data processing, unveiling a new data parser on Wednesday that can transform piles of unstructured information into a more structured form for use in running Hadoop jobs.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 03 Nov. 11 07:09

  • IBM Information on Demand 2011: In pictures

    This year's conference, held at Mandalay Bay Resort, will focus on information management, business analytics and enterprise content management.

    Written by Chloe Herrick • 25 Oct. 11 08:20

  • Jazz Montreux Festival plans 1.2PB archive for 40 years of music

    Forty years worth of performances at Europe's most prestigious jazz festival will soon be stored in a digital archive that will be shared through with students and in cafés around the world.

    Written by Lucas Mearian • 18 Oct. 11 21:04

  • OpenWorld 2011: Exadata underpinning Oracle Cloud play

    Oracle is banking that when organisations across the Asia Pacific turn to new infrastructure to support their move to private cloud or launch of public cloud services, bigger equals better.

    Written by Tim Lohman • 05 Oct. 11 09:10

  • Oracle's Big Data Appliance taps growing enterprise need, analysts say

    Oracle's new Big Data Appliance, officially introduced at the OpenWorld2011 conference in San Francisco, should appeal to enterprises looking for more efficient ways to capture, organise and analyse vast amounts of unstructured data.

    Written by Jaikumar Vijayan • 04 Oct. 11 08:19

  • Oracle pushes appliance message to software crowd

    One thing became clear at Oracle's OpenWorld conference on Monday: The vendor is intent on drilling the benefits of its hardware-plus-software systems into a customer base that largely remains invested only in Oracle's applications, databases and middleware.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 04 Oct. 11 06:07

  • Oracle rolls out 'Big Data' appliance

    Oracle unveiled the Big Data Appliance, the newest addition to its line of products that combine software and hardware, during the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Monday.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 04 Oct. 11 03:48

  • Oracle launching 'Big Data,' in-memory appliances

    Oracle is apparently adding two more members to its family of systems that combine hardware and software, including one that targets 'Big Data' and another with in-memory computing capabilities.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 03 Oct. 11 10:54

  • New on the iPad: The story of business intelligence

    Business is full of dramatic narratives, from CEOs with unique personalities to soaring sales and market crashes to cutthroat competition. Inside a company's massive storehouse of business data, you'll often find nuggets that foreshadow what's coming-that is, if you look hard enough and can make sense of it all.

    Written by Tom Kaneshige • 22 Sept. 11 03:26

  • Alarm sounded on lack of virtualization disaster recovery plans

    Only 22 per cent of CommVault's ANZ customers are backing up their virtual server environments while another 25 per cent do not have a disaster recovery (DR) plan, according to the results of a global survey conducted by the vendor.

    Written by Hamish Barwick • 05 Sept. 11 12:12

  • Credit Union Australia uses BI to boost customer service

    Sydney-based financial services provider, Credit Union Australia, (CUA) has gained a clearer picture of its operations and improved customer interactions since implementing business intelligence (BI).

    Written by Hamish Barwick • 04 Sept. 11 00:00

  • BI, virtualization, Cloud a piece of cake with XIV Gen3: IBM

    IBM has touted its XIV Storage System Gen3 as being able to deliver the often data intense business functions of virtualization, analytics and Cloud computing. The vendor has revealed that 4500 units have so far shipped worldwide.

    Written by Lisa Banks • 01 Sept. 11 15:44

  • VMware's VMworld Las Vegas in pictures

    All the action from the event

    Written by Georgina Swan • 30 Aug. 11 06:52

  • Cloud-based storage improves disaster recovery at Situs

    When Bill McCown joined The Situs Companies six years ago, the Houston-based real estate consulting firm was anticipating growth, and the company figured its tape-based backup systems would need to be upgraded. Then came September 2008, when Hurricane Ike slammed into Houston.

    Written by Megan Santosus • 27 Aug. 11 07:53

  • Enterprise data warehouse key to national health reform

    The federal government’s Department of Health and Ageing is seeking information from suppliers in preparation for the upcoming national health reform enterprise data warehouse (NHR EDW) program.

    Written by Rodney Gedda • 03 Aug. 11 10:01
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