The Data Driver

SUSE Enterprise Storage 3 is now available to help customers adapt to changing business and data demands through accelerated IT innovation. The latest intelligent software-defined storage management solution from SUSE® is the first commercially supported solution based on the Jewel release of the Ceph open source project, ensuring customers are first to get supported and easy access to the rapidly advancing Ceph community innovation.

By: Emma Isichei, Worldwide Category Director, Capture Solutions at Kodak Alaris

Mobile is big. Mobile is the driver of changing customer behaviour and many digital innovations. In the Middle East and Africa mobile is even bigger, for instance in healthcare. A recently published report from IDC Health Insights shows that enterprise mobility will have penetrated over 80% of MEA healthcare organisations by 2017. And it’s not just healthcare. Globally, spending on mobile technologies is expected to reach $1.2 Trillion by 2019, other research by IDC shows.

Teradata announced a new “design pattern” approach for data lake deployment which leverages years of experience in big data consulting and optimization to help clients build and benefit from data lakes. The new design pattern approach is an industry first and positions Teradata at the forefront in helping business users, data scientists and IT professionals establish data lakes that produce exceptional business value.

Commvault believes that India is a key market where resides a lot of business opportunity. Commvault is a leading provider of data protection and information management solutions, helping companies worldwide activate their data to drive more value and business insight and to transform modern data environments. With solutions and services delivered directly and through a worldwide network of partners and service providers, Commvault solutions comprise one of the industry's leading portfolios in data protection and recovery, cloud, virtualization, archive, file sync and share. To get more insights, TheDataDriver.com had a quality time with Ramesh Mamgain, Area Vice President - India & SAARC at Commvault. Ramesh divulged about the company's India strategy and long term goals.

By: Anshuman Singh, Director, Product Management of Application Security, Barracuda Networks
Technology in todays’ world is advancing at a phenomenal speed, not a single year passes without a new technological breakthrough - the next big thing! If one observes acutely, there is yet another phenomenon which is speeding up - the newer, bigger and more complex vulnerabilities challenging the IT security environments in every possible way - big and small. One may or may not be a fan of the horror genre of entertainment, but it is important for them to be aware that the zombies,  the undead data, have now attacked the technology world too. This is one of the biggest irreprehensible IT challenge in the coming days.

In light of the recent European Court of Justice ruling to invalidate the Safe Harbor data-transfer agreement between the U.S. and European Union/European Economic Area (EEA), Questback confirmed that it remains compliant with the EU/EEA data protection regulations. The new ruling means that technology companies processing data under the Safe Harbor framework are no longer in compliance with the EU/EEA regulations, and that customers using such services may be in breach of the law.

By: Ammar Enaya, General Manager of Aruba Networks Middle East, an HP Company
With the days of unlimited data becoming a thing of the past, there has been a growing trend in customers using up mobile data much quicker than what they were doing previously. Is this because user habits didn’t factor in just how data hungry our habits were or is there something else at play?

SQL and Data Conference, SQLServerGeeks Annual Summit 2015 began in Bangalore at the NIMHANS Convention Centre today.  The 3-day summit being attended by hundreds of SQL professionals will run till the 29th August. Organized by SQLServerGeeks.com and claimed to be the first ever such summit in Asia is featuring SQL Star Speakers such as Denny Cherry, Benjamin Nevarez, Praveen Srivatsa, Alberto Ferrari, Joey D Antoni, Dave Dustin, Vic Parmar, Andreas Volter, Stuart Padley, Lara Rubbelke, Scott Klein, Microsoft SQL Data Platform among others.

Commvault has announced findings from a new IDC survey and whitepaper which suggest that data silos within organizations in India are limiting the ability to make insight-based decisions. The lack of formal strategy in data management is more prevalent in India compared to other countries.

NETGEAR has unveiled ReadyNAS 3220 Series Network Attached Storage (NAS) that claims to deliver high value, high performance storage with enterprise features to small and medium-sized businesses (SMB). Available for the first time in 2U rackmount form with 12-bay capacity, the new ReadyNAS 3220 enables easy storage for businesses supporting up to 500 concurrent users.