The arrival of cloud computing and unstructured data systems is a siren song for bank IT managers who are practically salivating at the prospect of getting faster, more scalable hardware environments.

Video and other dynamic elements can jazz up a Website, but they make it tough to track Website use and improve your search results. The new HTML5 standard promises to marry the best of both worlds for more effective marketing.

Digital signage helps many banks avoid costs formerly associated with print, if the bank can determine the right ratio of print-to-digital. Some may opt to eliminate print entirely.

If your organization seems to be a good fit for Hadoop, you can download the open source software that comprises the data framework and try it out with relative ease.