Data Management/Storage news from FierceCIO

The challenges of managing growing mountains of data and making it suitable for effective mining is altering the way IT staffs are being trained in some companies. Cross-training among different IT Read more...

In the insurance business, regulations require companies to keep documents for at least six years, creating an office space challenge for insurers. New York-based Maya Assurance Co. discovered a need Read more...

A data map--a consolidated system that tracks the contents of multiple databases--is a great idea, but it's not for the faint of heart. It will take lots of hard work to make it possible, but in the Read more...

Every CIO is besieged by data that seems to multiply exponentially. This information must be stored somewhere, but the volume and the complexity of interactions in a company make it a huge task, for Read more...

If you could start all over again and build a top-of-the-line data center, what would it look like? That question was posed by Computerworld to IT executives and industry experts and, as you might Read more...

Michelle McKenna, the CIO at Universal Orlando Resorts, has some advice for her members of her profession--think like your customers and use your data to focus on your company's markets. "In today's Read more...

The Beijing Olympics are a massive undertaking, and IT services to support the event are a big part of the effort. Atos Origin is the worldwide IT partner for the Olympic Games, overseeing the Read more...

It may be hard to believe, but the world's data centers are becoming major contributors to global warming and are projected to surpass the airline industry as a major greenhouse gas polluter by 2020. Read more...

With all this talk about eDiscovery and so many companies pushing tools to protect or gain access to key digital information, you would think that lawyers would get it. Experts say that lawyers Read more...

A new survey from Quocirca finds that executives say software development is critical to their businesses, but most are not doing enough to build security into their applications. The survey of 250 Read more...