Moving more of your operations to the cloud is a little bit like your first date. It was scary, nerve wracking and you weren't quite sure of the outcome. But after a while you got the hang of it and saw the benefits--a date for the high school prom and the ultimate outcome, perhaps, matrimony. Fortunately there is a way to transition more applications to the cloud and at the same time, eliminate first-date level stress. You can achieve the ease of workflow and efficiency you crave from an advanced storage …

Analyzing big data is critical for enterprises to serve customers and improve overall business performance. Historically, data access, processing, and analysis were most important for reporting on business performance, followed by customer insights and business intelligence, but our study revealed that customer insights will replace business performance as the top priority for data processing and analysis. This supports Forrester's overarching assertion that enterprises have entered the age of the customer -- …