Data: the latest hot topic

As the volume and types of data expand, effective data storage and backup have become elements of almost every organisation’s ICT strategy. The range of available options, though, can be confusing. Jason Walsh looks at how the file-store landscape is changing

It’s a ‘big data’ world, and whatever that means for enterprise IT strategy, or even for the wider worlds of politics or philosophy, it has one simple practical upshot: all of this information has to go somewhere — and once it is there, it has to be retrievable.

After all, waking up in a sweat, having had a nightmare that you were teetering on the brink of the bottomless pit of data is ...