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Welcome to Bloor
Restore as a service
Talking to Curtis Preston about Druva’s data-management-as-a-service and its support for AWS Snowball Edge, speeding-up and de-risking cloud transitions.
Summon up your inner Bletchley Park
New storage solutions are able to ingest vast amounts of real-time data from IoT sensors and probes. AI & data analytics solutions decode the data & predict IT Infrastructure problems.
Moving towards a defined reference architecture for Edge Computing
Getting a sensible reference architecture in place that a significant number of Edge players buy into, will go a long way to help Enterprise CIOs make the right Edge investment decisions.
Managing Collaboration
My observation is that a lot of collaboration initiatives never really deliver, and my work experience is that being able to do everything myself better than anyone else is the recipe for personal career success! Nevertheless, I really do believe in collaboration.
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Data Warehousing
A data warehouse is a database implementation that supports the storage and analysis of historic data, with the aim of understanding what happened in the past or predicting what will happen in the future.
A data warehouse is a database implementation that supports the storage and analysis of historic data, with the aim of understanding what happened in the past or predicting what will happen in the future.
Blockchain
A blockchain is a distributed ledger, implemented across many servers, consisting of a continuously growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked across the whole network and secured using cryptography.
A blockchain is a distributed ledger, implemented across many servers, consisting of a continuously growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked across the whole network and secured using cryptography.
Graph Databases
Graph databases store data in terms of entities and the relationships between entities.
Graph databases store data in terms of entities and the relationships between entities.
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
At its simplest it is using computers to run algorithms that give them the ability to undertake reasoning that was previously seen as the preserve of humans.
At its simplest it is using computers to run algorithms that give them the ability to undertake reasoning that was previously seen as the preserve of humans.
Endpoint Detection and Response
EDR technologies vastly improve visibility into not only which endpoints are on the network, but also their security posture, allowing for advanced threat detection and response to counter even the most sophisticated threats.
EDR technologies vastly improve visibility into not only which endpoints are on the network, but also their security posture, allowing for advanced threat detection and response to counter even the most sophisticated threats.
Security Response Orchestration
Security response orchestration arms organisations with the tools that they need to automate responses where possible, supplementing this with human knowledge and experience where required.
Security response orchestration arms organisations with the tools that they need to automate responses where possible, supplementing this with human knowledge and experience where required.
User and Entity Behavior Analytics
Context is king when defending against sophisticated, advanced threats. UEBA technologies provide that context and are a key addition to any security analytics and intelligence capability.
Context is king when defending against sophisticated, advanced threats. UEBA technologies provide that context and are a key addition to any security analytics and intelligence capability.
Encryption
Encryption – and its opposite, decryption – is the process of converting data into code that is unreadable by a human who does not possess the necessary key for decrypting it.
Encryption – and its opposite, decryption – is the process of converting data into code that is unreadable by a human who does not possess the necessary key for decrypting it.
Hybrid Infrastructure Management
Hybrid Infrastructure Management is the monitoring and analysing of your IT infrastructure in a manner that relates to their impact on the performance and availability of your business applications.
Hybrid Infrastructure Management is the monitoring and analysing of your IT infrastructure in a manner that relates to their impact on the performance and availability of your business applications.
Data Governance
Data governance is about ensuring that your organisation's information assets meet corporate policies for accuracy, timeliness, completeness and compliance.
Data governance is about ensuring that your organisation's information assets meet corporate policies for accuracy, timeliness, completeness and compliance.
Test Design Automation
Test design automation provides a potentially massive boost to testing speed and efficiency. Properly leveraged, it can also dramatically improve the end-user experience.
Test design automation provides a potentially massive boost to testing speed and efficiency. Properly leveraged, it can also dramatically improve the end-user experience.
5g, IoT and Edge Computing
Revolutions are by their nature disruptive. They create winners and losers. Businesses need to be implementing IoT projects now and be developing their 5g networks and edge computing strategies to win in the 4th Industrial Revolution.
Revolutions are by their nature disruptive. They create winners and losers. Businesses need to be implementing IoT projects now and be developing their 5g networks and edge computing strategies to win in the 4th Industrial Revolution.
Data Warehouse Automation
This Market Update covers best-of-breed products for data warehouse automation (DWA) and data lake automation (DLA).
Alex Solutions
Alex Solutions is an enterprise level solution for metadata management, as well as data governance, data stewardship, data cataloguing, and data quality.
Infoworks
Infoworks automates all the steps required for Hadoop deployments from ingestion through to the generation of OLAP cubes and/or the creation of data science models.
Magnitude Information Engine
The Magnitude Information Engine is based on what used to be Kalido, which was originally developed by Royal Dutch Shell as a means of speeding up the creation of its data warehouses.
WhereScape Automation Software
WhereScape provides a selection of software products that revolve around automating the full lifecycle of the data warehouse.
Attunity Compose
Attunity Compose is a data warehouse automation solution that can automatically create analytics-ready data structures on both data warehouses and data lakes.
Trivadis biGENiUS
Trivadis started to develop what is now biGENiUS in 2005, consolidating its efforts in the data warehousing automation space resulting in the launch of biGENiUS in 2018.
GRC realities - what are organisations really doing?
Every organisation faces risk, uncertainty and security threats, yet must comply with a host of regulations. GRC helps to manage those issues to keep an organisation on track.
Blockchain
Hot Report explaining Blockchain distributed ledger technology benefits business model use cases and why you should skill up and include in your strategy now.
Project Social - Why is it essential for Workforce Wellness?
OpusView enables collaborative workforce wellness.
Graph Database Market Update 2019
This is the third Market Update into the graph database market, considering and comparing both property graph and RDF databases.
Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics
Predictive analytics refers to the ability to predict events before they occur, allowing you to take remedial action in advance. Prescriptive analytics extends this concept by either suggesting the actions you should take or automating those actions.