Papers from Quocirca

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1. Beyond Big Data - The New Information Economy
Organisations are faced with an ever-increasing flow of different data types, including formal, database transactional information as well as less structured documents, voice and video.
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2. FM, IT and Data Centres
Often, Quocirca finds that an organisation has one team, FM, looking after the physical facility of the data centre, with another, IT, looking after the servers, storage and network equipment, along with the software running within it.
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3. Powering the Data centre
With the increasing cost of energy, the most cost-effective approach to ensuring that an IT platform can continue to operate, even when power from the grid system is no longer available, has to be a high priority for any business.
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4. Next Generation Datacentre Cycle II - Cloud Findings
For those who thought that cloud computing was now reaching mainstream usage, this new global research across large organisation may serve to reset views.
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5. Optimising Linux on System z as part of a hybrid IT architecture
In a world where business demands on IT are growing rapdly but IT budgets ae often stable or shrinking, organisations need to implement IT strategies that reduce costs and increase overall value to the business.
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6. Tiers for Fears
For many organisations 'IT' is split between two groups. The data centre facility is provided and managed by facilities management, while the IT equipment within the facility is provisioned and managed by the IT department.
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7. Next Generation Datacentre Cycle II -
This re-run of the next generation datacentre research covered 10 regions to identify what progress organisations have made in preparing to adapt to new IT architectures and approaches to computing. The first cycle was held in February 2011.
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8. The data sharing paradox
This Quocirca small business report looks at the degree to which small businesses are sharing data today, the ways in which they are doing so and the real and perceived risks. It goes on to look at how these risks can be mitigated.
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9. Next Generation Datacentres Index - Cycle I - Cloud Findings
As part of the next generation datacentre (NGD) research, Quocirca also asked interviewees for their thoughts on cloud computing. This report provides the analysis and findings from this research.
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10. Next Generation Datacentres Index - Cycle I
Organisations are running datacentres that are at the end of their useful life. This research report highlights various issues that respondents are facing up to, provides insights into possible best practices for next generation datacentre planning.
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11. The New Virtual Data Centre
Virtualisation has come to the fore - yet it also creates headaches that data centre and facilities managers must deal with.
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12. Cloud Computing - taking IT to task
Much of the discussion around modern IT still revolves around purely technical aspects of a given platform, leaving many business people in the dark as to what true value of a new technical architecture actually is.
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13. Building a case for datacentre infrastructure management
Ensuring that a data centre is run at its optimal levels will become increasingly important - yet the tools required to carry out such a task are not necessarily covered by the general IT budget:
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14. A gift from IT to the business
IT managers need to keep demonstrating how IT can help drive the business forward and underpin survival and growth, even in a tough economic climate. On-demand spend analytics is a quick and easy win with a potentially huge return on investment.
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15. Telecoms re-invention - death of the traditional telco
The communications provider landscape is evolving as the demand for data-in fixed locations and on the move-outstrips the still growing demand for voice communications.
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