Information Management News & Articles

It occurred to me recently that people are talking about “the cloud” these days almost as much as they talk about the weather. Need to reduce spending on IT infrastructure? Move to the cloud! Want to increase accessibility? Move to the cloud! Hoping to streamline processes? Move to the cloud!

Data management, analysis and governance solutions provider Recommind has released Axcelerate EasyUpload, a cloud based tool that helps with the management and transfer of electronically stored information (ESI).

Enterprise powerhouse Box, a cloud sharing utility, has announced integrations with Uberconference, a video conferencing tool, and IntApp, a sharing app designed specifically for legal teams.

Anyone hoping that the information supplied at Microsoft’s Q2 earnings announcement last night would answer some of the questions hanging over the Redwood giant are going to be disappointed.

IDC consulting has produced a cloud-based worker study for Microsoft, and the focus is on how new skill sets are still not prevalent enough in the workforce. More cloud-ready, if you will, workers are needed to fill many positions as businesses continue to shift to the cloud.

In modern business and government, your data is your goldmine. 

Last week, YouSendIt, the cloud file collaboration service, bought Found, a system for enabling file search across devices and clouds. Today, YouSendIt is beefing up its mobile offerings with the launch of some new mobile apps for the iPhone, Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. The apps are designed to meet the needs of an increasingly mobile user base while protecting against the growing security risks of mobile file sharing.

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For the last quarter of the year, IBM has announced a set of results that should keep investors happy, if not ecstatic. This is the end of Ginni Rometty's first year at the helm, a year in which IBM made record earnings and in which the first step of a five year transition plan has been put into place.

It’s still early in the year and already McAfee is setting out its stall for the coming months. Outlining details about its Security Connected platform, McAfee said that it will be working over the coming year to build an integrated security management framework that will work across mobile devices, endpoints, servers and enterprise networks.

Last week, I wrote a book review on "The Phoenix Project", which looks to DevOps to solve a cross industry problem that a few fashion forward shops -- most notably Etsy -- have solved. Many more shops do not even recognize it as a problem. The reason this perspective continues to persist, in my opinion, is a combination of fear, misunderstanding and disbelief from IT practitioners and both IT and business leaders.

Aaron Levie, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of online storage and collaboration provider Box Inc., has announced the company is planning an initial public offering (IPO) for next year.

Semantic content enrichment solutions provider, Temis has announced it will be releasing a beta version of its online collaboration platform, the Luxid Community.

Chances are that if you are storing documents across a variety of storage services, your iPad is jammed with a bunch of different apps to give access to those documents. Readdle, which specializes in producing apps for the iPad, thinks it can clean your iPad up with its Documents release, an app that will provide access from a single place.

It’s still not clear when exactly Microsoft is going to release Office 2013, but at this point the leaks are so prolific, it may as well make a clean breast of it. In the last few days alone, more about the pricing has been ‘leaked’, and now word that some home users will also be able to get their hands on the new suite.