Big data fabric is an emerging platform concept that aims to accelerate business insights “by automating ingestion, curation, discovery, preparation and integration from data silos,” according to Forrester, in its new report “The Forrester Wave: Big Data Fabric, Q2 2018.” (more)
It’s no longer debatable: happiness is a business-critical ingredient to any workplace. Growing evidence points to the positive impact of happiness on modern organizations, including in important areas such as productivity levels, sales numbers, stock prices, and more. Enter the Chief Happiness Officer. (more)
With so much of patients’ data fragmented across disparate systems, especially in countries outside the US like India, the global healthcare industry is in dire need of a revolutionary electronic health record (EHR) system. Fortunately, we live in a tech-forward era that is plentiful with the resources necessary to incite change within current healthcare systems. One such technology that has the potential to revolutionize data-driven healthcare is the blockchain. (more)
When we started data archiving more than a decade ago, the enterprise was a very different place. Companies had challenges dealing with data growth — application performance issues, growing storage costs, and dealing with application upgrades — manageable by today’s standards. To address the data management issue, we pioneered the ILM-ready Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite for enterprises to automate and manage data archiving. (more)
The enterprise data lake is now well past its infancy: more than a quarter of all organizations have a data lake in production. However, with maturity comes new findings, criticisms, and data lake misconceptions — with headlines like “Data lakes will need to demonstrate business value or die”. (more)
Recently, Frost & Sullivan awarded Solix with its prestigious 2018 Global Product Leadership Award. We are honored to receive this award, validating our major efforts over the last few years to create a Common Data Platform for data-driven enterprises that affordably address data management, governance, and analytics needs. (more)
I have often been asked how I’ve managed to successfully lead a non-VC funded company to compete with the big guns like IBM and HP. The ability to not only survive but thrive in a world teeming with giants is a formidable challenge, but it is not impossible. And my biggest advice to entrepreneurs seeking to do the same is to not get distracted by factors like size or reach — rather, they should focus on creating bleeding-edge innovations with the potential to disrupt traditional business models. (more)
With GDPR now in full effect, organizations and governments still have a lot of work and learning to do. In particular, many businesses are hard at work checking off all of the boxes for GDPR compliance with the complex, multi-faceted law. (more)
This year, consider embracing one of the biggest breakthroughs in office management: a clean, paperless organization with no impact on trees. Why? The switch saves you money in many ways, such as the cost of paper and printing, it streamlines document retrieval, and helps meet compliance requirements like GDPR. (more)
It was recently reported that 80% of all IT budgets will be committed to the cloud, with demand for public cloud growing 36%. (more)
