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BIG DATA, ANALYTICS & IOT – ADOPTION ON THE RISE

We are all continually facing a deluge of increasing amounts of information to review, analyse and make decisions about. This trend will only increase as businesses begin analysing unstructured data, implementing smart systems (IoT), and connecting more of their employees into the digital business. IoT itself is driving a significant increase in data touch points…

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BREXIT BRITAIN BURNT MY BUDGET!

 Manufacturer  Price Increase  Affected Products  Effective Date  Apple  Various  All products  28th Oct 2016  Fujitsu  5%  Storage  1st Nov 2016  Hewlett Packard  Enterprise  6-12%  All products  1st Dec 2016  Lenovo  10%  All products  1st Dec 2016  Microsoft  13% – On Premise 22% – Enterprise  Cloud Services Enterprise software and cloud  services within the EU/ EFTA  region.  1st…

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WHAT’S IN-STORE FOR MY CLOUD?

In 2009 @infoworld Editor in Chief @EricKnorr published an article about the big 5 questions of what cloud was, and the general summation was “a subscription-based or pay-per-user service that, in real time over the Internet, extends IT’s capabilities. http://www.infoworld.com/article/2628968/cloud-computing/five-big-questions-about-cloud-computing.html The reality is that Cloud is still exactly that, and will remain true; the colour,…

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STAYING IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT AS WE ALL UNDERGO GLOBAL DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

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Formula 1 is all about elite performance and the incremental advances made by pushing the percentages on a number of fronts. It is a real-time, streamlined environment that requires constant attention to detail to ensure everything runs smoothly. The IT infrastructure that supports an F1 team’s real time analytics and scenario planning are a vital…

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LOVE BREXIT OR HATE IT, IT WILL AFFECT US ALL

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What a week….but what does it mean to UK business with overseas interests and, vice versa, international companies with customers within the EU? Well, currency fluctuations could seriously affect the net cost to business of any major IT project, yet another worry that operations and finance directors will have to think about, whilst they would…

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HOW HAS IT CHANGED THE FACE…..WELL THE BACK END….OF F1?

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Having recently sponsored Jolyon Palmer at the F1 Grand Prix in Barcelona Team Viadex had an opportunity to witness first-hand how technology is used to gain competitive advantage on race day within F1. It’s incredible the amount of compute being utilised on race day to gain miniscule and yet significant performance advantages. In a sport where UK…

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