5 Key Challenges That Data Centres Are Facing

This post takes a look at the key challenges that will be facing Data Centres over the coming few years. The main driver creating the biggest challenge is the explosive growth of data {over 800% in next 5 years alone}. Much of this data will be unstructured and when...

Leading Causes of Data Centre Outages

This post will be the first in a series looking at some common concerns, issues and opportunities facing data centres from both an economic and an operational perspective. We’ve all heard the expression “Time is Money”…well in the data centre...

The Impact of Big Data in the Retail Industry

Our previous post touched on a few ways that Big Data is expected to improve our day to day lives. This post takes one particular sector {Retail} and looks at some of the ways that businesses in retail will be revolutionized by the use of big data analytics. The...

Data Breaches and Their Cost Impact

With all the projections of greater and greater volumes of data being created and pushed through our networks and smart devices, one might wonder just how safe and secure is our information. Our previous post took a look at how much actual data volume is being...

How Big Data Will Improve Our Lives

This post touches on just a few of the many ways that Big Data will be changing (and improving) our lives. Let’s begin with a quick recap by answering the following question: “Just what is Big Data anyway?” Well according to the Wikipedia definition: Big Data is an...