23 Nov, 2024

How to transform your company into a paperless organization

This year, consider embracing one of the biggest breakthroughs in office management: a clean, paperless organization with no impact on trees. Why? The switch saves you money in many ways, such as the cost of paper and printing, it streamlines document retrieval, and helps meet compliance requirements like GDPR. (more)

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Top GDPR challenge: Do you know where your sensitive data is?

As companies worldwide scramble to meet new GDPR data privacy regulations, compliance with the Right to Erasure (Article 17) or more commonly known as The Right to be Forgotten has emerged as a top challenge. The problem sounds simple enough since the DELETE function is a standard feature on most any IT system, but how do you delete data if you do not know where it is? (more)

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Why tiered enterprise archiving is the killer app for Hadoop

A recent Gartner report estimates that 70% of Hadoop deployments in 2018 will fail to meet key objectives, citing skills and integration challenges. Apparently, many organizations are taking on Hadoop projects but fail to take them into full production, because they don’t have a clear roadmap or the skills necessary to complete them — eventually becoming pet projects. (more)

3 mins read

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)

6 mins read