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Informatica, which pioneered the current data integration tooling market, is seeking to reboot growth by targeting midmarket prospects who have traditionally perceived its solutions as too complex and expensive. The technology linchpin of this strategy is “Vibe,” a service-oriented architecture to deconstruct and make Informatica’s technologies more easily embeddable into third-party tools and/or cloud-based services.

Some manufacturers recently have made an impact with a "five nines" uptime guarantee, so here's some perspective. Five nines is 5.26 minutes of downtime per year, or 25.9 seconds a month. Four nines is 52.6 minutes per year, which is one hour of maintenance, roughly. Realistically, no one can guarantee uptime because uptime really needs to be measured from the host or application perspective.

The Australian government has finally embraced cloud services as a critical element of the digital economy by releasing a National Cloud Computing Strategy. While not quite "cloud first", the strategy creates an explicit requirement for agencies to consider cloud services for new ICT procurements, test and development activity, and to migrate existing websites to cloud services at natural refresh points.

ServiceNow is a global leader in providing cloud-based services used by enterprises to streamline and automate their IT operations. They're known for their expertise in IT Service Management (ITSM), speed of development cycles, and commitment to open source including MongoDB and NoSQL.

We've all heard and understand big data issues: volume, velocity and variety. But when breaking it down into simple terms, how much data do you think is generated every minute across common platforms? The answers may shock you. Just remember when reading through that all of these transactions occur in one minute, every day.

CIOs engaged in cloud initiatives have identified one of their top goals - a need for a cloud strategy. The reason; cloud initiatives not only directly impact technology, but the effect extends significantly to business processes and organisational resources. A strategy that aligns process, technology and business service delivery is critical to the future returns on the initiative.

Oracle recently held its third annual Industry Analyst World conference at its Redwood Shores headquarters, and it came as no surprise to Ovum that business analytics featured as one of six major track themes (aligning nicely with Big Data and Analytics Super Theme for 2013). Oracle's business intelligence and enterprise performance portfolio is undoubtedly impressive in both breadth and depth...

Enterprise security can be a labyrinthine, complex beast, but when we get down to the nitty gritty, security can be simplified by six simple questions: who is logging in, what are they accessing, where is the device from which that person logs in, when was any asset changed, how are they authorised, and what is the impact of the event?