Big Data Expected To Boost UK Economy By 2017

Friday, 18 May 2012 | Jason Slater

Big data is expected to add £216 billion to the UK economy, largely through gains in business efficiency, whilst creating almost 60,000 new jobs, through opportunities for small business,  between now and 2017 according to a study by Cebr, the … Read More

Do You Trust Your Hard Drive To Keep Your Data?

Tuesday, 9 March 2010 | Jason Slater

Hard drives don’t last forever – it’s a fact of life. Many of them are measured using a MTTF rating which stands for Mean Time To Failure – or put another way – the average amount of time you’ll get to use them before they stop working. Don’t panic just yet though – as many hard drives go on for years reliably serving data as intended.

There is a warning there though – if you have important, vital, sentimental or sensitive information you want to keep you really should consider having a regularly updated second copy. In this article we’ll look at a number of solutions that might be able help keep your peace of mind.

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Technology Radar: The SPASER

Friday, 29 January 2010 | Jason Slater

The SPASER could be coming to a circuit board in your computer in the not too distant future – and possibly herald the way for optical computing. The nano-based SPASER could be utilise for the blazing fast movement of data … Read More

Visualise Your Data With A Useful Framework

Friday, 18 December 2009 | Jason Slater

A topic I love watching out for is data visualisation and the tools available, including business intelligence, dashboards, key performance indicators, and other mechanisms to make sense of data using the well known phrase “an image is worth a thousand … Read More

Visualise your data assets with Constellation Roamer

Friday, 28 August 2009 | Jason Slater | 2 Comments

Searching through pages of textual information trying to find connections and relationships between information items is time consuming and not very intuitive. Being able to visualise information and explore links can speed up the process and often lead to interesting … Read More