The Lyon metro; The Lille, Le Mans, or Melbourne tram systems? Keolis helped to design these transport systems and operates them on a daily basis. As the largest urban transport operator in France and the leading tram operator worldwide, the company operates 85 urban transport networks and covers 74 French counties with interurban links. In
Virtual servers, cloud-based platforms, and virtual desktops are becoming the standard way to deploy new infrastructures. This trend toward consolidating many different applications onto a single set of systems causes what is sometimes called the “I/O Blender” effect. The storage workloads become in the aggregate highly random and simultaneously distributed across a large percentage of
The objective of this study is to provide a framework for testing an all–solid state storage system, commonly known as the all-flash array. IDC performed substantial research to understand the prevailing use cases, testing methodologies, and tools; worked with independent labs; conducted vendor interviews; and reexamined existing IDC research. The results of the research generated
Every enterprise storage system utilizes multiple forms of redundancy in order to protect data against loss when an inevitable array component failure occurs. RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) was invented to allow data to be spread across multiple drives for performance, but also to protect the data when a disk drive (and in later
Enterprise storage arrays are highly sophisticated systems that have evolved over decades to provide levels of performance, reliability, and functionality unavailable in the underlying hard disk drives upon which they’re based. A significant aspect of the engineering work to make this possible is designing the array hardware and software stack to extract the most capability
One way or the other, implementing BPM in your organisation will introduce change. But here, more so than in many other kinds of business/IT project, it is crucial to remember that technology change is not the same as business change. You can effect a technology change by installing a BPM system; but that by itself
IBM has a long history as a provider of process automation technology. In recent years the company has focused significant effort on building a new process management platform within its WebSphere software unit, as well as buying companies with strong technology relevant to BPM (FileNet, ILOG and Lombardi, to name but three). However, for some
The age of the customer. Possibly no term better illustrates the current era of business. Customers expect their experience to be flawless at every touchpoint, and with competitors only a click (or tap) away, company leaders have a strong incentive to deliver. Online retailers have set a high standard in the way that they engage
A wide range of emerging technologies – from mobile devices and collaborative tools to the explosion of unstructured data and use of cloud solutions – is changing the way organizations in virtually every industry compete. These technologies have transformed how companies interact with customers, business partners and suppliers, enabling significantly greater efficiencies and cost advantages.
To the business user of information systems, the relationship with the IT personnel who build and maintain those systems can be a contradictory experience. On the one hand, IT delivers significant productivity benefits by automating routine tasks and improving access to information, while on the other hand, the process of building automated systems often requires