Tales of data cleanup and normalization, massive integration, and major workflow revisions in decision-making, make it difficult for SMBs (small and medium businesses) to compete against larger concerns when it comes to developing business intelligence (BI) for their markets and their operations. But with the right kind of support from upper management, an appropriately trained IT staff and a vision, SMBs can attain great results.
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An SMB Masters Business Intelligence
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ShareFile Adds Android, iPhone Access To Storage Platform
ShareFile on Thursday announced both iPhone and Android applications for its file sharing and storage platform. The company had previously offered non-native mobile access, but decided to build apps specifically for Apple’s iPhone and Android-based devices in response to a growing number of customer requests, according to ShareFile CEO and founder Jesse Lipson.
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BridgeSTOR Launches Storage Optimization Appliance
BridgeSTOR LLC has announced a storage appliance intended to bring high-end features such as data deduplication and compression to the small-to-medium business/small-to-medium enterprise market. The Application Optimized Storage Appliance for Network Storage can reduce storage capacity requirements, power, cooling, and management costs in network-attached storage and iSCSI storage area network environments by up to 70 percent.
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Cisco Weaving A New Data Center Fabric
With improvements and additions that cut across the data center, Cisco today announced updates to their Data Center Business Advantage portfolio. This includes additions to the Nexus line of switches, the Unified Computing System and NX-OS. Cisco has also focused heavily on network fabric technology with this release, providing a response to recent fabric releases from competitors such as Juniper and Brocade.
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The Importance Of Correcting Packet Loss In VDI
Recently, on the LinkedIN WAN optimization professionals group, I participated in a conversation around whether or not VDI is ready for the WAN. Face it, delivering responsive VDI over the WAN is going to be a challenge. One of the interesting points that came up was the importance of correcting for packet loss when considering WAN optimizers.
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HP Opens Showcase Green IT Data Center In Colorado
HP on Wednesday opened a new data center that is designed to be a research lab for environmentally sustainable practices that use energy efficiently and have as little environmental impact as possible. The 50,000-square foot facility in Fort Collins, Colo., will be unique among HP research facilities in that it will be the first built at scale, running a full complement of 2,000 to 4,000 servers versus the typical research lab that runs on just 10 to 20 servers.
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Intellectual Capital Cybercrime Survey: Companies Reluctant To Investigate, Remediate Sensitive Data Breaches
In the face of growing evidence that cyber-criminals are increasingly focused on intellectual capital and other proprietary business information, many organizations around the globe are nevertheless unlikely to investigate breaches and/or take remedial action. Only a quarter of organizations conduct forensic analysis of a breach or loss, and only half take steps to re-mediate and protect systems for the future after a breach or attempted breach, according to survey data in the McAfee-SAIC report, “Underground Intellectual Capital and Sensitive Corporate Data Now the Latest in Cybercrime.”
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Amazon EC2 Dedicated-Server Offerings Addresses GRC Niche
Gartner’s latest Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting, published at the end of 2010, placed Amazon and its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) offering in the Visionary quadrant. It called Amazon a ‘thought leader’, and ‘extraordinarily innovative, exceptionally agile and very responsive to the market’. On the negative side, it cautioned that the company was the only vendor that did not offer dedicated non-virtualized servers. Until now.
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Cisco Homes In On Teleworkers
Cisco is targeting the large and growing telework or telecommute market with a set of products intended to extend the enterprise wireless network from the office to the home. By 2016, 43 percent of U.S. Information workers will work from home at least some of the time, according to Forrester, up from 40 percent today.
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Net Optics Taps Into Remote Monitoring
A specialist in network monitoring, Net Optics is expanding its reach with what it call’s the industry’s first purpose-built integrated network and application monitoring tap for branch and remote offices. Based in Santa Clara, CA, the company has more than 7,000 customers, including 85 of the Fortune 100. A plug-and-play remote-access solution that can be up and running in minutes, appTap is intended for remote branch sites with up to 100Mb internet connections. It captures and analyzes network traffic, application activity and monitors Voice Over IP (VoIP) calls, enabling users to proactively detect and resolve problems in real-time before they affect business continuity, competitiveness and revenue.
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