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Use this tool to play with the pre-populated values, or insert your own amounts to compare possible database decisions, and determine the TCO of scaling up or out for open-source Apache Cassandra.

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This research allows organizations to successfully identify if they have the need for NoSQL solutions and develop a big data strategy around their use case.

Solution Set

The big data market is still in its infancy and many organizations don't yet understand how big data tools fit in with their existing data management strategies. Big data tools are not a fit for every use case and knowing when and how to lead a...

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Writing IT job descriptions can be time consuming and frustrating. Make the job easier with this list of sample IT job descriptions.

Vendor Research

This report provides guidance on the market dynamics surrounding analytics tools, and how vendors and their partners can align sales and marketing strategy to maximize this business opportunity.

In this week's Special Letter, well-known publishing expert Thad McIlroy attacks the question of one's choices regarding prediction when faced with more data than can be absorbed by one person. It's an important question: do regular folks (i.e.,...

Vendor Research

This report is designed to aid vendors and solution providers in the sales and marketing of backup software to end customers.

Vendor Research

Info-Tech Research Group's Indaba Division (Info-Tech Indaba) has been providing research and advice around IT buyer behavior for many years, as well as examining the relationship between vendors and solution providers. The research is now being...

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Avoid contract pitfalls and get a fair price on your telecom and mobility contracts.

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For enterprises to be able to properly retain and secure their information assets, they must first classify them to establish relative value. Once classification is completed, the enterprise's most confidential assets can be afforded the highest...

(8-Mar-11) Cloud computing can represent a net gain in data security and system reliability – especially for small businesses with aging computers and data stored on hard drives that rarely -- if ever -- experience a back up. But that doesn’t...

(23-Feb-11) Data that is most likely to be stolen are information that has the highest commercial value, according to James Quin, lead research analyst for Info-Tech Research Group in London, Ont. He said information typically falls...

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Exploding volumes of data are driving the search for faster and more reliable backup, but data value and restore speed are also critical considerations. Designing a best-fit architecture requires these elements be evaluated alongside total cost...

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Exploding volumes of data are driving the search for faster and more reliable backup, but data value and restore speed are also critical considerations. Designing a best-fit architecture requires these elements be evaluated alongside total cost...

You have watched the industry strategic energies move over time from fewer users of more powerful machines, to a global base of users of many types of less-expensive computing and communications devices. It is almost fair to wonder about the...

(21-May-10) The age of innocence, when companies could rely on only basic security to keep their systems safe, is sadly long gone. This presents a challenge for smaller organizations: How do they keep their computers and data secure without...

Last week I had a chance to do my second interview with Mark Hurd, recently departed CEO of Hewlett-Packard and now president of Oracle. We covered a great deal of technology landscape in 45 minutes, and one of the critical issues we covered...

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Multi-site enterprises are commonly managing environments with different types of voice and data connectivity, often sourced from multiple service providers. This solution set will help IT leaders perform a full telecom inventory that can be...

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Multi-site enterprises are commonly managing environments with different types of voice and data connectivity, often sourced from multiple service providers. Use this tool to inventory telecom services, physical assets, monthly invoices, as well...

Premium Resource

Learn how your IT department compares to your peers in the Insurance Services sector by using Info-Tech's IT Budget & Staffing report. The attached PDF contains a consolidated report covering both Financial and Insurance services research.

There are times when something critically important is being missed by not only the larger, non-specialist community involved, but even by those at the core of the conversation. I am going to focus this week's issue on a problem of that nature.

There was something funny about the Mark Hurd story from the outset. While everyone else seemed to be getting off on all the possible, and later, apparently wrong, titillation eddy currents, there was something missing in the main event: other...

Publisher's Note: A couple of years ago, my Conference panels on the cloud began looking more deeply into Cloud construction, Cloud security, Cloud infrastructure discontinuities, and, in general, higher level Cloud questions. Mark Thiele was...

Sentilla, one of several vendors in a growing category of off-the-shelf data center energy measurement solutions, recently announced the release of Sentilla Energy Manager 3.0. This release introduces several features and enables energy...

(23-Apr-10) Turning masses of data into actionable information is a constant challenge for companies of all sizes, but when you're a small business in a highly competitive marketplace, it's even more critical to keep on top of trends. You...

Apple and Google had interlocking boards, Adobe was Apple's lifelong development partner and ally, and even Intel had come back from the Dark Side of Wintel to make the chips used in Apple machines. What a happy family, all playing around the...

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Taking stock, or mapping out an existing data inventory terrain is important to understand where the organization is strong, and where there are gaps. This identification will aid in the process of moving from a chaotic to controlled data...

(9-Apr-10) Ethernet is to the world of data networking what low-frequency AC is to electric power distribution: the foundational universal standard for the world’s infrastructure. Yet Ethernet’s original conception and implementation targeted...

(8-Mar-10) In today’s financial services industry, technology isn’t just an accessory; it’s a bare necessity. Technology is essential in gathering information and providing advice to your clients. And demonstrating a grasp of technology can...

(26-Feb-10) The planned acquisition of Nstein Technologies Inc. will give Open Text Corp. semantec analytics technologies and a valuable customer base, both of which are quite compelling to the Waterloo, Ont.-based company, said one analyst....