We are living in exciting times, especially those of us who work in IT. The technological changes going on all around us are, historically, on par with previous leaps in human development. For businesses, technology offers tools that allow them to compete and thrive. It gives them the ability to apply intelligence and process management…

Healthcare providers are considering a growing number of digitally enabled devices that have the potential to dramatically improve clinical care while driving down costs. These devices offer providers a major opportunity to leverage the Internet of Things (IoT) in coming years. Although discussions about IoT typically focus on data analytics and clinical use cases, healthcare…

Organizations in a variety of sectors have watched helplessly in recent years as technology-powered upstarts reinvented the rules of their business. Hotels have lost market share to services such as Airbnb. Uber and Lyft have knocked the taxi industry on its heels. And services such as Netflix pushed traditional video stores to the brink of…

In a span of 30 years, the average person in the United States has gone from explicitly asking the phone company to not publish their phone number in the phone book to sharing every intimate detail of their life on social media. It seems people have lost the understanding of the value of privacy. It is…

How many times have you or your team members tried to make sense of raw data in a large, ugly Excel spreadsheet, spending hours on that one pivot chart needed for the next quarterly meeting? Times have changed, and we need better ways to visualize raw data and run better analysis from different angles. Today,…

Today’s customers expect more from retailers than ever before. In the age of always-improving technology, customers want a convenient, seamless shopping experience, whether they’re making their purchases online or in the store. Luckily for retailers, the same technologies that embolden customers are also empowering forward-thinking companies. Smartphones, tablets and other devices connected through the Internet…

Getting your arms around your unstructured data, servers, virtual machines, storage and SAN fabric has never been more relevant to IT administrators and CIOs. Luckily, there are a few excellent products that will help you to solve this performance and capacity conundrum, saving money and hopefully getting an approving nod from the boss. 

According to David Gosman, CEO of pcAmerica, 26 percent of people will leave a brick-and-mortar store if they are having a bad customer service experience. And of those 26 percent, seven percent of those customers will leave permanently. That is a huge statistic. That means that retail store personnel can do everything correctly – merchandising…

Businesses live and die by metrics. Everywhere, the sheer volume of data is being examined, reexamined and leveraged. Let’s take a look at one part of the business world – more specifically, the retail space – to see what this industry is doing in Big Data.

Over 14,000 people from 99 different countries traveled to the Venetian in Las Vegas, Nev. for EMC World 2015 held from May 4 through May 7. EMC World is a premier event for EMC, partners and customers, and is rife with announcements, keynote addresses, labs, product demonstrations and events.