As information becomes digital more and more large companies are facing an increasing need to manage their Big Data needs with adaptable storage.  What's taking up all their storage?  Written records, customer service calls, IoT information, and other industry-specific information.  For example, insurance giant IAG managed 80TB last year but now it's managing 2PB and that data store is growing by 14TB a month.  All of this data falls under what the industry calls "volume, variety, and velocity" of data.

As the conversation about autonomous cars heats up, BMW is looking at a different way to make use of cloud technology to power how their vehicles operate.  Their focus?  Owning the customer experience and making it fit the rest of the driving experience.  Instead of outsourcing infotainment to another company, BMW has decided to keep it in-house while accommodating Apple CarPlay integration.

In an article published recently by Computer Weekly, author Caroline Donnelly explores how recent improvements to the "speed limit" of sending data to the cloud have made the technology more accessible than ever.  Given this, enterprises should double down on their efforts to move their data off-premise.

One of the most terrifying crises an enterprise will face is the hacking of their data or the hostile takeover of their servers, a practice carried out with malicious code known as ransomware.  Production coming to a halt is the smallest worry of these situations - costs to repair, replace, and reformat drives can be extensive and even then is no guarantee that all data will be recovered.  And, in some industries there are serious legal and business consequences in response to breaches of customer data.  But what about cloud data storage?  That offsite data can be the most vulnerable.

Dell EMC, a worldwide leader in information capture and management technology and PaperFree partner, has been making recent strides in their product offerings and has announced a lineup of new high performance computing (HPC) products designed for integration into the cloud.  These advances into software, systems, and customer results serve to make high performance computing available for enterprises of all sizes, all while improving the technology and ultimately making it more easily available.