Information Management News & Articles

Amazon, Google and Microsoft were going strong in their ongoing spat over cloud pricing early last December, but then things got quiet. Now Microsoft has announced the acquisition of MetricsHub which should add a little bit more edge to its Azure offering by providing software to monitor and automate resource allocation for Azure.

Office 365 and the release of three new business SKUs dominated this week in document management news, with the ripples of the release being felt with complementary solutions launched by MetaVis and KnowledgeLake. In other news, Metalogix announced some new developments around StoragePoint, Office 2013 got a new touchscreen guide and Version One rebranded.

OpenStack, the open source platform for building public and private clouds, has now gotten a big boost from a big player: IBM. 

Everyone is doing big data, or least it would appear so from the forums, blog posts and media articles currently appearing on the Web. But big data solutions are expensive and require investment in human resources and technology, which not every enterprise has the resources to do. So how widespread is big data adoption? Open source integration specialist, Talend went to the market to find out and came back with some interesting results.

For those trying to obtain managerial buy in for security control, the stages in the process can often parallel the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.

Throw all your documents in a SharePoint library and what do you have? A mess. While some like to think of SharePoint as a glorified file share, it doesn’t have to be. 

There's a new Sheriff in town, and it's ready to protect iPads. The newly released Sheriff Workspace for Mobile and Windows expands HiSoftware’s SharePoint product suite to include secure mobile collaboration. 

The Chief Marketing Officer Myth
Despite what many say, the CMO is not becoming the dominant enterprise software buyer -- the CIO will keep this crown.

Marketing automation platforms help marketers develop 1:1 relationships at broadcast scale. Here's a look at how 5 successful marketing automation strategies.

Intranet Governance is Key
As Intranets grow in complexity, the importance of Intranet governance is gaining popularity.

Big Data for Everyone
It's been quite a week for big data with Hadoop headlines galore. Check out news from Intel, EMC and Cloudera. These are groundbreaking approaches to once mind-numbing tasks.

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Enterprise content management provider Hyland Software has announced its acquisition of AnyDoc Software, an automated document, data capture and classification solutions provider.

What good is the best Hadoop solution if it becomes unavailable when Enterprises users most need it? Not much, is the obvious answer. For Enterprises who use, or plan to use, Hadoop for mission critical applications that presents a real problem.

It's inevitable when you get a big release like Microsoft’s upgrade of Office 365 yesterday that a bunch of vendors will following up with tools to complement the release. Some of the services are more significant and useful than others, as is the case with MetaVis, which has just announced that its migration and administration tools will work with the new upgrade.

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In case you've been sleeping under a rock, yesterday afternoon Intel announced that it has developed its own distribution of Apache Hadoop, The Intel® Distribution for Apache Hadoop. What’s different about it, as compared to other Hadoop vendors (Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR, EMC’s Pivotal HD, HP’s, IBM’s and WANdisco’s -- did I miss any?), is that it’s built from the silicon up which should give it an edge in delivering performance and scalability. 

That Microsoft released the consumer-focused version of Office 2013, Office 365 Home Premium, before releasing the business version is a bit of mystery given that Office 365 is clearly geared for businesses. However, today it has finally released the updated business versions that focus on social and mobile enterprises, as well as upgrades to its standard applications.

Give a dozen Fortune 100 CIO’s a few scotches (or truth serum if they don’t drink), then ask them how many Big Data Apps they’re running. The likely answer will be “not a one.”