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Enterprise application data tiering with Hadoop
With widespread digital transformation taking place in enterprises across the world, every CIO wants to know if their infrastructure will be able to handle the resulting data growth. In fact, Gartner in its research has presented that 47% of respondents ranked data growth as the #1 infrastructure challenge for data centers. When data sets become too large, application performance slows, and infrastructure struggles to keep up. Data growth drives increased cost, compliance, and complexity everywhere — including data center, performance, availability, maintenance, and even compliance. (more)
How to avoid tax audit disasters with print-and-archive
I was recently talking to a major distributor who had just gone through a tax audit nightmare. The taxes in question vary based on the location to which the goods were shipped. What should have been a straightforward audit turned into a complex, expensive process because in many cases the customer shipping addresses had changed over time, and the distributor’s ERP system, like most such systems, kept no historical records of those old addresses, so they could not guarantee that the invoices they generated for past shipments showed the actual shipping location. (more)