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Yearly Archives: 2006

Content Management: Wikis within the Enterprise

By Dick Weisinger

A few years have passed since Infoworld declared 2004 to be the year of the enterprise wiki.  While still not yet commonplace, wikis are becoming an ever more popular collaborative tool used in the workplace.  What are wikis?  Unlike static web pages that are created to be

Storage: Storage for SMBs now with Enterprise-Level Features

By Dick Weisinger

Falling storage prices and rising storage capacities are doing well in keeping pace with the ever-increasing storage demands imposed by regulations like HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley.  A new generation of products are being introduced that target SMBs (Small and Medium Business)

SOA: Four Roadblocks to SOA Success

By Dick Weisinger

SOA is becoming accepted as a ‘Best Practice’.   And adoption rates of SOA are soaring.  But that doesn’t mean that SOA doesn’t have its warts too.  An article on TechTarget highlights some perspectives of SOA thought-leaders about some aspects of

Java Language Begins Going Open Source

By Dick Weisinger

Formtek | Orion products have been developed primarily using the Java language, so it is of interest to us whenever there are any changes that occur to the Java language.  There has been a lot of agitation over the last few

Storage: XAM! Powering Content Management with Content Aware Hardware

By Dick Weisinger

Content Aware Storage (CAS) are specialized storage devices for managing information.  CAS was popularized by EMC with their Centura-branded product line.  Standard storage is able to refer to stored data by adressing location on a disk, usually a physical location