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We’re currently seeing much consolidation, and strong rumour of further consolidation, in the Data Integration (DI) market, with major players seeking to strengthen their position in MDM (Master Data Management), data integration and data migration. The recent Gartner Magic Quadrant highlights the importance placed on having a completeness of vision and an ability to execute. Oracle’s 2010 acquisition of GoldenGate and rumours of a bid for Informatica along with Talend’s acquisition... -
Well I hope the title got your attention at least. Of course there is no tangible linkage between William and Kate's forthcoming nuptuals, leaked diplomatic documents, the arctic weather and Data Migration, but all three have been enjoying airtime in my Twitter, e-mail and web traffic this week, so I thought I'd share my end-of-year thoughts under the banner. I am, as it happens, still awaiting the arrival of my embossed, gold-leaf-on-vellum invitation for the joyful day in April next year... -
A huge amount of the Smart Grid/Metering discussion to data in the utilities, government and reglatory authorities has centred on what kind of a new network and technology stack is required, and on the sophisticated functionality of metering equipment. I'm not sure how many of the folks in the Utilites sector have noticed, but over here in the Communitcations (the clue's in the name!) sector have already provided some quite effective networks that will meet pretty much all of the requirements... -
The ‘i-generation’, or ‘digItal natives’ (defined as those born since 1990) have grown up in an era where huge amounts of data about them as individuals is shared widely. But when I left school in 1977 there wasn’t a computer in the place and mobile phones were only available on Star Trek (a popular sci-fi programme of the day…). So my generation’s perception of how much of my data it is reasonable for a third party to hold is perhaps rather different from theirs. My 17-year-old daughter told me... -
Gerd Leonhard, Media Technology and Communications Futurist declared this week at the TM Forum Management World conference that ‘Data is the new Oil’. Data, he said, is very precious and that Communications Service providers have the opportunity, skills, experience and infrastructure to exploit the Tsunami of data, that Sally Davies (BT Wholesale’s CEO) told us is heading our way. I have previously blogged on the Petabyte era we are entering, driven by the massive adoption of new networked devices... -
12 thoughts for Christmas: 1. Growth in data remains on a very steep curve, driven by growth in both services and usage – smart devices create a lot of data and messages to service providers 2. Moore’s Law, Virtualization, Utility computing and effective DC management will mitigate, but can’t solve the problem 3. Increasing regulation, and attention to detail in compliance checking conspire to make Directors’ lives more risky 4. Service Providers in virtually all sectors are moving towards (if they... -
Martin Creaner (TM Forum CEO) blogging on the state of Cloud computing this week pointed out that pretty much all of us are already experiencing Cloud services already. If you use Salesforce.com, or iTunes or Google applications, then you are already a consumer of Cloud services. So what is the big difference between these very widely adopted services and moving a much larger proportion of your business processes outside your firewall? A colleague joked that Cloud computing reminded him of the Eagles... -
As we all get back to work after a glorious summer (except inScotland where it rained solidly for the week I was there), plans arealready underway for an exciting next few months. While Australia lost the Ashes to England, Telstra successfullycompleted their IP/MPLS network inventory using Celona’s nextgeneration Application Data Migration with zero downtime andnear-perfect data quality. Given the high level of complexity both inthe data and the way it affects business users and their processes thiswas... -
There’s a lot of data migration going on - the vast majority of business change programmes involve moving large amounts of complex data around. It doesn’t matter whether these are implementing new or changed processes to drive more efficient operations, integrating customers from an acquired company, supporting new compliance reporting requirements or launching new products and services. With enterprise data storage spiraling ever larger (the average large business will own 8Tb of data... -
Volumes of data continue to grow rapidly - we now frequently talk in terms of Petabytes – AT&T transfers 16Pb of data through its network daily, while Google processes 20Pb of data per day. When such companies upgrade their systems, reorganize or acquire new companies, they face a new scale of problem from previous generations of enterprises. And it isn’t simply a volume problem, because the data they use to manage their operations is frequently inter-related and shared across both...
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