Oracle ZFS Storage ZS4-4: New NAS speeds up DB analyses 8. January 2015 by Ralph Novak Oracle has brought out the NAS system ZFS Storage ZS4-4 with the new software version OS 8.3, which enables new functionalities in particular in interplay with the Oracle Database 12c. In this way, the network storage with ZFS Analytics in company-wide mandate environments now offers a detailed view of individual PDBs (pluggable databases) within the …
Global CIO survey: Europe looks for new software solutions 8. January 2015 by Ralph Novak For 70 percent of the top management, the reorganisation of their IT departments took top priority. According to the CSC Global CIO Survey 2014-2015 it is the managers in Europe, with a proportion of 80 percent, who are most strongly pushing for their IT departments to be brought up to date.
Shadow IT: Employees push for modern communications solutions 8. January 2015 by Ralph Novak According to a worldwide Vanson Bourne investigation on behalf of Telstra, nine out of ten IT managers find it difficult to implement all of the technological aids that employees expect today for workplace communications. This means that there is an increasing risk that employees will bypass the IT department and use their own alternatives.
Cloud Computing: Email and storage are the most important cloud services 8. January 2015 by Ralph Novak Every fifth company in the EU28 uses cloud services. According to the latest Eurostat figures, Finnish companies take the lead here. There, 51 percent of companies use cloud computing. This is followed at a considerable distance by Italy (40 percent), Sweden (39 percent) and Denmark (38 percent).
Digital economy: Network expansion is being curbed in Germany 8. January 2015 by Ralph Novak Every year the Federal Ministry of Economy examines how Germany performs in comparison to 15 other countries in terms of ICT and Internet business. In the monitoring report Digital Economy 2014, Germany occupied the fiercely contested middle ground, remaining in fifth place, which was separated from 10th place (France) by a mere three points. The …
Long-term archiving: New storage disc hidden behind glass 8. January 2015 by Ralph Novak Syylex AG from Villingen-Schwenningen (Germany) has developed a glass disc in the format of a DVD-ROM that is readily available to practically anyone: the data is stored as pits or grooves in the glass and then sealed airtight with a second glass plate. For this GlassMasterDisc the company was given the special award for medium-sized …
ICT market development: Versatile infrastructures win the race 8. January 2015 by Ralph Novak Global spending on information technology and telecommunications may increase by 3.8 percent to over USD 3.8 billion in 2015. It is primarily investments in mobile computing, cloud services, big data, analytics and social networks that will be responsible for this growth. This is the prediction of the market research institute IDC, which has been closely …
Optical fibre networks: G.fast shoots through the last mile 8. January 2015 by Ralph Novak The ITU (International Telecommunications Union) has passed the G.fast broadband standard. It enables transfer rates of between 150 MB/s and around 1 GB/s and is the successor of VDSL2. Because G.fast is designed for standard copper telephone lines, the standard allows a good value alternative to FTTH (Fibre to the Home) glass fibre technology. At the …
Evolving Workforce 2014: The office is wherever the latest technology is 8. January 2015 by Ralph Novak There’s a growing trend of working from home, but the centre of working life is and remains a company’s office: in a survey this year from Dell and Intel, “Evolving Workforce”, 95 percent of German employers said that they spend at least a little time in the office; for more than 65 percent it’s even …
Germany’s IT market: Hardware is on the decline, software is making great gains 8. January 2015 by Ralph Novak The industry association BITKOM predicts that the revenue created by German companies from software, hardware and IT services will increase by 2.4 percent to EUR 79.7 billion in 2015. This is said to come from the latest EITO (European Information Technology Observatory) figures, a project from Bitkom Research GmbH in collaboration with the market research …
