Data Information Management

Iceland to Become a Low-Cost Data Centre DestinationIceland's new and unique multi-tenant data centre will be an attractive low-cost destination for many IT workloads eventually. UK co-location provider Verne Global built the facility on a former Nato base near Keflavik airport, with modular IT infrastructure from Colt Technology. Verne ... read more..

8February 2012, Networking SeminarDownload the presentation slidesIan Jones, NCCDarren Thomson, CTO EMEA, Symantec CorpDr Daniel Dresner, ex NCC head of information assurance standardsJames Harris, business development director, DCG GroupJon Brooks, large enterprise IDM sales manager, DellJonathan Humphrey, IT director, Codemasters Software LtdSponsored by:Information governance and the management of data ... read more..

A collection of recent NCC research, thought leadership, presentations, videos and news to help those interested in professional development get up to speed with the key IT management issues in the use of collaboration tools.Collaborative technologies promise to minimise information overkill and help us find what we need to do ... read more..

6 December 2011, NCC Executive briefing - Round Table Dinner Sponsored by: ... read more..

big data There has never been as much information and data in the world as there is now. So much so that it has been awarded its own, slightly misleading name, big data. Yes, the volume of data is huge, but it is the variety and complexity that is driving ... read more..

According to Nobby Akiha, senior vice president at business intelligence (BI) specialist Actuate, for business users to be fully productive they need answers now. And in a world powered by sophisticated analytics tools, theres no excuse for waiting for monthly management reports If there is one theme that sums up ... read more..

managing information risk Information is an organisations most valuable asset. However, it is often neglected in favour of protecting material assets, maintaining cashflow and the like when considering the organisations long-term future. This is usually because assigning a value to information is much more difficult than valuing buildings, stock, people ... read more..

e-Privacy DirectiveTracking consumer behaviour to support targeted advertising has dramatically increased over recent years. This has been driven by the move of advertising spend away from traditional media towards online channels, and advertisers and marketers seeking to collect and exploit consumers online shopping and browsing habits to improve the success ... read more..

7 July 2011, The British Library, London Information governance and the management of data is no longer just the concern of the IT department but has become a key corporate and commercial issue. Never more has it been true to consider information as the lifeblood of the organisation. We ... read more..

7 July 2011 Download the presentations Introduction (141KB PDF) Ian Jones, NCC Managing data in the era of the cloud (5.4MB PDF) Gareth Fraser-King, Head of Global Technical Enablement Symantec and Cloud ... read more..

06 July 2011 Download the presentations Introduction (140KB PDF) Ian Jones, NCC The flexible enterprise - people, process and culture (540KB PDF) John Eary - NCC Associate consultant The ... read more..

Following input earlier in the year from the NCC Members Advisory Board, we are pleased to announce two new services for NCC Members: Analyst Digest and our Professional Development Service. Every day new research, articles and white papers get posted on the web research that could provide you with ... read more..

In challenging economic times a low cost, low hassle service is very attractive to executive boards, especially as the most well known providers of cloud services, such as IBM, Microsoft, on the technology side and Amazon and Google on the service side, are also trusted household names. Their products and ... read more..

Results of NCC Member's Question: Issued 15 June 2011 NCC Members can ask relevant questions to the wider NCC membership, moderated by NCC. We collate the responses, where appropriate anonymise them and publish the results on the website for the benefit of the wider membership. Have you implemented an organisational ... read more..

NCC Members can ask relevant questions to the wider NCC membership, moderated by NCC. We collate the responses, where appropriate anonymise them, then publish the results on the website for the benefit of the wider Membership. Can you help? Have you implemented an organisational Corporate File Plan and what approach ... read more..

managing consumer technologies As smartphones and tablets find their way into the workplace, IT departments have become increasingly concerned about the potential dangers of allowing personal devices onto the corporate network. Gareth Maclachlan, COO and founder of AdaptiveMobile, argues that CIOs should embrace their employees mobile devices, yet remain mindful ... read more..

geographical information systems Geographical information systems (GIS) technology has been around in some shape or form for over 40 years, helping analyse and make sense of spatial data. But today, GIS is helping solve a raft of new challenges in both the private and public sector, as it comes of ... read more..

Watch the video at www.brighttalk.com/webcast/29001A study by the University of Worcester shows that nearly 60 per cent of businesses polled currently have no security policy in place and are ill-prepared to meet the real and increasing threat to their business information. The research also shows how businesses who fail to ... read more..

SAP advances GRC strategy When Ovum last reported on SAP's governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) strategy two years ago at the SAP Insider event in Las Vegas, the company still had its work cut out trying to execute on an aggressive roadmap. The roadmap had to pull together its Virsa-sourced ... read more..

Press ReleaseFrom the National Computing Centre. For Issue : 16th March 2011According to new research from the UKs National Computing Centre, information security issues are holding back the adoption of cloud computing technologies by business. In the research Security in the Cloud, IT decision-makers expressed a clear desire to ... read more..

Growth and change in the BI market March 2011 Catalyst The business intelligence (BI) software market continues to see rapid growth, driven by enterprises desire to maximize cost savings and identify revenue opportunities across all major industries. Key findings: BI is a growth industry that ... read more..

HP buys Vertica, joins Big Data party Less than a month after stopping support of its ill-fated NeoView data warehousing range, HP has acquired Vertica Systems to fill the gap for Big Data warehousing and analytics. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of 2011. This is ... read more..

Exploiting all of the organizations information assets January 2011 Catalyst As organizations address the requirements of faster and better decision making, they need enterprise search and retrieval (ESR) solutions, and tools that can deal with the rapidly increasing volumes of available information both within, and around the enterprise. To be ... read more..

business analytics Laurie Miles, head of business analytics at SAS UK, explains how understanding business user roles and mapping information access using analytics can transform data into making better business decisions. There are considerable challenges for all organisations dealing with data collection and management. But capturing information is only the beginning of ... read more..

Organisations in both the public and private sectors are under severe pressure to find ways to provide more efficient services. And with employee costs such a major overhead, rostering software is well worth considering for those organisations who need to schedule their staff across shifts in order to maintain an ... read more..

Results of NCC Member Question Issued 17th September 2010NCC Members can ask relevant questions to the wider NCC membership, moderated by NCC. We collate the responses, where appropriate anonymise them and publish the results on the website for the benefit of the wider membership. Can you help our member with ... read more..

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 11g is the biggest business intelligence (BI) announcement of the year to date, packing in a raft of features and providing best-of-breed tool alignment. Some of the main enhancements are focused on plugging previous functional gaps, notably greater report and dashboard interactivity courtesy of: ... read more..

CRM platforms contain only some of the information pertaining to business contacts and customers prospects, and so those tasked with business development spend an inordinate amount of time searching for information that will give them the big picture. Can social search and analytics come to the rescue? We believe it ... read more..

HCLs approach to data center transformation is to use opex savings to fund technology transformation. This is an approach that favors the customers retention of assets and suits HCLs strategy of acquiring resources only when they genuinely add to its service delivery capabilities. Enterprises looking to get rid of ageing ... read more..

With Salesforce and Apple leading the way in setting up and running successful online marketplaces, other IT vendors are scrambling to follow suit to sell complementary solutions and tools. The latest to join the crowd is Informatica, which in 3Q10 will open up a new online channel for developers, partners, ... read more..