Use Only What You Need, and Pay Only for What You use? It’s an Idea Whose Time has Come — Compliments of the Cloud! Imagine a world where you use only what you need, and you pay only for what you use. It’s the epitome of efficiency and economy! IT managers who have discovered the […]
Business today is moving faster and heading in more directions than ever in human history. We’ve never been more connected, more empowered, more informed, or more challenged to take risks. Fueling much of this march forward is our reliance on stored information and statistics — the stuff we call data. The Information Age has rapidly […]
Pay Attention to Your Data, and Your Data Will Pay Dividends to You Even a decade ago, few anticipated that data would grow so powerful, so important, and do so as quickly as it has. Today managing data growth has become more crucial than ever. Fortunately there are concrete ways to benefit from smart data […]
It’s a fact of life in modern business and industry: You’ll amass more data by the end of the month than you likely did over an entire 12 months just a few years ago. The bottom line is that data isn’t going away any time soon, and it grows in quantity and importance with each […]
Listen carefully. Do you hear it? That eerie hissing noise? It’s not a plumbing issue. It’s the sound of your data — growing exponentially by the nanosecond. With every breath and every blink of an eye, your data continues to grow, subtly yet inexorably. Think snow: The flakes fly, first one, and then another, and […]
It was pure magic. Make that pure MAGIC: The Mid-Atlantic Group of IBMi Collaborators. SIAS worked in conjunction with our reseller partner, Hamway Software Solutions, to help create a new IBM Power Users group to support this underserved region. It nearly didn’t happen. With weather looming, organizers of this first-ever MAGIC event were skeptical about […]
While cloud computing and IBM Power systems have been employed for years, their use on a massive scale is only in its infancy. What is the state of the industry? What does the future of cloud storage hold? How can businesses harness the power of cloud storage and cognizant computing to maximize ROI? Eric Herzog, […]
The healthcare industry, like many data-intensive industries, is changing rapidly, and that includes how healthcare providers manage, store, retrieve and protect mountains of sensitive information. Increasingly healthcare IT managers are turning to cloud solutions and services; it’s a trend that promises only to increase as data management needs expand and IT experts require effective, state-of-the-art […]
Insurance isn’t a front-of-mind concern for most businesses on a day-to-day basis. That is, until something bad happens and you need to make a claim. Then it becomes a critical part of doing business. Securing data is very much the same idea: Companies continue to store data on a daily basis and IT managers hope […]
In the IBM Power Systems universe, knowledge is power. Yet finding the latest and best information and hands-on training for this technology platform has sometimes been a challenge in many locales, including the Mid-Atlantic region. But take note: A new conference scheduled to take place in October in Virginia will shed a bright light on […]
