Big Data, Outsourcing, Mobile Printing: Around Enterprise Services, Apr 6
Here is a summary of the Enterprise Services blog topics for this past week:
There hasn’t been as much discussion around the impact of mobile devices on printing behavior and the implications so I was pleased the other day to find a very insightful report from Quocirca titled, “The mobile print enterprise. How IT consumerization is driving anytime, anywhere printing.”
- Data Center Consolidation is a “never ending story”… by Shawna Rudd
I was watching a series of video clips on “data center consolidation” the other day, and I ran across one that featured some senior Gartner Analysts who were sharing their thoughts on keys things to remember about data center consolidation. One of the analysts defined Data Center Consolidation as “collapsing a large number of smaller data centers that are geographically dispersed into a smaller number of more economic data centers”.
Last week while at HP’s global technical conference, I had a few minutes with Ray Beausoleil from HP Labs. He was excited about a topic that appears to have some significant potential in both the consumer and industrial area – Dielectric Grating Reflectors.
- Data is a girl’s best friend?- an executive view by Kelly Kasher
While I’m partial to diamonds and sapphires, Jeb Horton, Vice President, HP Information Management and Analytics argues that, “Data has become the most precious raw material of the 21st century.”
- Outsourcing Direct-to-Customer Interaction Activities Made Easier by Annabelle Baxter
HP Enterprise Services today celebrated the expansion of the HP Fulfillment and Logistics Center located in Des Moines, Iowa, allowing retail, e-commerce and entertainment clients to more easily outsource their direct-to-customer interaction activities. Iowa Governor Terry Branstad provided the official opening remarks at the event.
HP and TDWI will present a webinar, “Enterprise Information Management Competency: A Foundation for Success in the World of Big Data,” on May 3, 2012, at 11 a.m. central time.
- Innovation and a CIO strategy event in Dallas by Charlie Bess
Yesterday I contributed to an HMG Strategy CIO Executive Strategy Event in Dallas. I was part of a panel focused on Innovation. We started off talking about what innovation means to each of the panelists.
- For Communications industry expertise, that "one size fits all" t-shirt isn't gonna fit! by Denise Townley
Consider enterprises that work within specialized industries, like Communications (CME). They need services tailored (there's that word again) to new technologies like cloud, machine-to-machine (M2M), and big data. Do you know there's a new normal in IT & Telco --? and you'd better be up on what that is, or you're already behind as you read this.
- Privacy and Consent in the realm of healthcare by Frank Din, DMD, Medical Informaticist and Arusha Brathwaite, Healthcare Business Analyst Monday
In a prior blog, Sarma Pisapati discussed many of the technical aspects of the data security. If you are like me, all the acronyms and protocols mean very little. So, for those of us who are not software engineers, I thought that I would focus on what privacy and security means to us regular people –we who manage various parts of the healthcare system.
