Welcome to Bloor
Bloor is an independent research and analyst house focused on the idea that Evolution is Essential to business success and ultimately survival. For nearly 30 years we have enabled businesses to understand the potential offered by technology and choose the optimal solutions for their needs.
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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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.
MaaS –
Mainframe as a Service
MaaS is the simplest and most effective way to modernise mainframe legacy and to make mainframe levels of performance, concurrency, security and reliability available to everyone.
MaaS is the simplest and most effective way to modernise mainframe legacy and to make mainframe levels of performance, concurrency, security and reliability available to everyone.
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.
GDPR
Seize GDPR as an opportunity to build “Privacy by Design” into your processes, thus de-risking mutable change as it affects personal data. Leverage this for increased customer trust, customer loyalty and market-share.
Seize GDPR as an opportunity to build “Privacy by Design” into your processes, thus de-risking mutable change as it affects personal data. Leverage this for increased customer trust, customer loyalty and market-share.
Low-Code/No-Code Development
Low and no-code development allow you to develop applications unprecedentedly quickly and efficiently while enabling citizen development, collaboration and self-service.
Low and no-code development allow you to develop applications unprecedentedly quickly and efficiently while enabling citizen development, collaboration and self-service.
Big Software
Big Software delivers real competitive advantage through significantly lower IT infrastructure costs and the ability to deploy more new business applications faster.
Big Software delivers real competitive advantage through significantly lower IT infrastructure costs and the ability to deploy more new business applications faster.
Data Catalogues
If you care about analytics – and who doesn’t – then a data catalogue is a fundamental requirement for creating a data-driven business and supporting self-service.
If you care about analytics – and who doesn’t – then a data catalogue is a fundamental requirement for creating a data-driven business and supporting self-service.
Data Centres
Data Centres are the dedicated spaces used to locate and run servers, storage and networking equipment.
Data Centres are the dedicated spaces used to locate and run servers, storage and networking equipment.
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.
Grakn Core and Grakn KGMS
Grakn is a graph-based platform for developing cognitive and other applications leveraging artificial intelligence.
VirtualWisdom 6.0: Hybrid Infrastructure Management
To deliver services reliably, companies need seamless access to application-centric performance metrics across their infrastructure, on site or in the cloud.
Visual Integration Processor
Visual Integration Processor is a .NET based rapid application assembly framework for integrating software.
Informatica Axon Data Governance
Informatica Axon Data Governance is a data governance product that supports data stewardship, data quality and data monitoring.
Encryption
Why encryption is getting a new lease of life and should be the default option for securing sensitive data.
IBM Cloud Private for Data
Limited, or no, technological capability with respect to AI is holding many companies back. This paper discusses how IBM ICP for Data can help.
Hybrid Infrastructure Management
Hybrid Infrastructure Management solutions will enable I.T. to deliver availability & performance SLAs, even on cloud-based infrastructure that may not be directly under its control.
Data Governance
Governing your data is important and extremely hot in the wake of GDPR. But how can you do it, and how can data governance help?
Security is a human problem
Phishing has emerged as a key factor in most security breaches. Where email used to be the primary means of delivering such attacks, technology advances and raised awareness are making such attacks less effective.
IBM Informix – The White Swan
This paper aims to help you sleep well at night (SWAN) and discusses: ease of administration; continuous availability and scalability; and smart triggers.
Streamlio
Founded in 2018, Streamlio provides an intelligent platform for handling (streaming) data in motion.
EsgynDB and HTAP
This paper discusses the sorts of features needed to support HTAP processing and then considers the capabilities of EsgynDB within this context.