The need to share information has never been greater as cross-organisational business processes become deeper and more complex. The movement of digital information, both within a business and across its increasingly porous boundaries to external individuals and organisations, carries more and more risk as regulations are tightened around data protection and personal privacy. Those businesses that stay ahead of their competition in the next decade will be those that put the technology in place to allow them to share content widely, but safely. ...
18/11/2008 | Quocirca_-_Nov_2008_-_Content_security_for_the_next_decade.pdf | VIEW
The UK's MPs may rue the day a disk listing details of their expenses was leaked to the Daily Telegraph from the House of Commons Fees Office earlier this year, but they were going to be made public at some point anyway, courtesy of the UK's Freedom of Information Act which the MPs themselves passed in to law in 2000. ...
19/06/2009 | silicon - dlp.pdf | VIEW
I recently heard a worrying statistic : It is predicted that by 2012, the amount of data being stored will double every 11 hours. I have to say that I view this with a healthy dose of scepticism, but whichever way you look at it, there's still going to be a lot of data around. ...
15/05/2009 | IM - datasort.pdf | VIEW
To outsiders, the world of IT storage can sound a bit dull. However, if they stopped to consider the innovations that have occurred in storage during the last decade they should not fail to be impressed. Certainly those with the power to reward achievement have been so: in 2007 the Nobel committee saw fit to award its Physics Prize to Peter Gruenberg and Albert Fert for their discovery of giant magneto resistance (GMR) in the late 1980s. ...
03/03/2009 | Content security - SNIA - Feb 2009.pdf | VIEW
The growth in the use of email and other forms of electronic communication between businesses in the last two decades has opened up a whole new area of risk. While there is an imperative to share information to keep business moving, all too often valuable data is getting into the hands of the wrong people. ...
13/12/2008 | Data leaks highlight need for content security.pdf | VIEW
Quocirca conducted two surveys separated by 12 months that looked at the data management infrastructure of UK and Irish businesses and how this was linked to their ability to respond to the whims of the regulators. In the year between the two surveys a lot had changed. ...
19/02/2007 | Another_Year_on_in_the_ILM_Journey_-_Quocirca_Feb_2007.pdf | VIEW
Moving Towards Storage as a Service. Current technology decision making in larger organisations is more dependent on making existing IT platforms as efficient as possible to support business demands, and less on the 'next big thing'. However, particularly in storage and information management, there remain weaknesses in the day to day operation of such environments. This report positions Information Life Cycle Management (ILM) in the context of infrastructure management as a whole, to yield understanding of where we are today, and how much further there is to go. The research shows that businesses are being more prudent than ever with their IT spending, focusing on delivering an efficient infrastructure and reaping the benefits that this can bring for the business. ...
01/11/2005 | ILM_as_a_journey_November_2005.pdf | VIEW
Imagine that you are newly arrived on planet Earth and faced with going to a public library. You are completely unaware of how a library works, but you understand books themselves. You enter and start to look at every single book until you find one on your chosen subject - possibly something along the lines of Social Etiquette for Earth Visitors. Having found this book, you go away, read it and return the next day to find another book on the same subject. You start again from the very beginning, looking at every book (including all the ones you looked at yesterday and found no interest in), until you find another book on the same subject. You patiently continue to do this, day after day, until someone offers to help you. ...
01/02/2008 | The Problems with Megadata Searches.pdf | VIEW
Businesses survive or die based on decisions made on information available to them, and yet the majority of organizations have little control over the growing mountains of information that they create on a daily basis. On top of the formal data being created by database-centric applications, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) applications, more and more of an organization's intellectual property is being created as ad hoc information held in documents created by individuals in Microsoft Office or other mainstream desktop applications. ...
06/12/2007 | The Four Ps of ILM.pdf | VIEW
Enterprises are continually seeking ways of driving cost out of managing their IT infrastructure without compromising service quality or business continuity. The printing environment is now an integral part of the IT infrastructure and organisations that use managed print services (MPS) are reaping the benefits of reduced cost and increased efficiencies. Using MPS optimises the way in which networked printers, copiers and multifunction peripherals (MFPs) are managed to minimise the wastage of paper and toner. Through device consolidation and ongoing proactive management, effective MPS offers cost transparency and reliable service levels. ...
01/12/2009 | Quocirca Enterprise MPS Study 2009.pdf | VIEW
