James Maguire

James Maguire is Datamation's Senior Managing Editor and has been reporting on technology topics for more than 15 years. He has covered the gamut of enterprise and consumer technology, and regularly communicates with leading IT newsmakers, vendors and analysts.

Top 15 Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Companies

RPA (robotic process automation) is software automation technology that is programmable by users to accomplish business tasks. It enables users to create intelligent software bots that accomplish a wide array of workplace...

Top Data Analytics Tools

Why Use Data Analysis Software? Data analysis tools enable businesses to analyze vast stores of data for great competitive advantage. Data analysis software can mine data that tracks a diverse array of business...

Hitachi Vantara CEO Gajen Kandiah: Data Analytics and Creating Success

As the CEO of Hitachi Vantara, Gajen Kandiah leads a company that offers IoT, data analytics, storage, artificial intelligence and cloud computing; in short, all of today's key emerging technologies. Consequently, his...

Snowflake and the Enterprise Data Platform

A new report entitled Data's Evolution in the Cloud: The Lynchpin of Competitive Advantage explores executives' attitude toward the essential – and challenging – process of data mining. Based on a survey...

Best Practices for RPA Deployments

Among the many technologies with potential to completely alter the workplace, clearly robotic process automation, RPA, is a leader. RPA enables companies to save precious staff time by automating many business work processes....

Do Hard Drives Still Make Sense for Your Data Center?

It's been a raging debate in the data center sector for years now: hard disk drives vs. solid state drives. Regardless of hype, what's the best deal for your data facility? Both have...

Data Analytics Infrastructure: Current Trends

Data analytics infrastructure is area that requires constant deep study to remain current. The very term data analytics infrastructure is itself far from simple. It's a wide ranging concept that comprises the many...

Data Governance Best Practices

The average employee may not be wildly excited about data governance. The term may seem dry, perhaps vague, probably really complicated. It has something to do handling information, right? Even upper management...

Hybrid Cloud and Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)

Early in the evolution of cloud computing – say, about 2012 – many pundits said the public cloud would make data centers obsolete. Yet here in 2021, data centers remain very much...

Using Technology to Reimagine Work Post Covid-19

The role of technology – from cloud to data analytics to Zoom – is expected to play an ever greater role in shaping how workers handle their workload in the post Covid-19 world....

Hybrid Meets Edge: Oracle Cloud Unveils Roving Edge Computing Devices

As cloud computing continues to grow – seemingly with no end in sight – a key challenge faces businesses: how do they expand their cloud’s functionality to better enable today’s ever-growing workload?...

Cloud Data Protection: Best Practices

One of the key challenges for data protection in today’s heterogenous environment is that companies have so many different environments: cloud, in-house, remote office, many endpoints. How are companies doing with this...

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