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Monthly Archives: May 2010

Data Explosion: Is the Sky Falling?

By Dick Weisinger

The order of progression for naming data storage units goes something like this:  kilo-, mega-, giga-, tera-, peta-, exa-, zetta-, yotta-.  After the yottabyte (10008 bytes) there isn’t an agreed upon name for the next bigger range of computer byte

Business Intelligence (BI): DynaTrek Enables Federated Database Access

By Dick Weisinger

DynaTrek, a Tokyo-based company, has developed a technique to dramatically speed up data access across an environment of distributed databases.  DynaTrek provides capabilities typically found in tools and systems used for performing Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and ETL Data Transformation.

Cloud Computing: A Move Towards Reforming Privacy Laws

By Dick Weisinger

The laws governing the privacy of data stored in the cloud were written almost 24 years ago.  A lot has changed over those 24 years.  And now many cloud-based vendors are lobbying congress to update those laws to the reality

ECM: CMIS is an Official OASIS Standard

By Dick Weisinger

CMIS, the specification for Content Management Interoperability Services, is now a standard.  The voting finished up on Saturday over this past weekend, and a sufficient of votes have been received.  Of those that voted, all votes were a unanimous ‘Yes’.  The

Social Media: Success in Realizing SM in the Business World

By Dick Weisinger

Do you have a Facebook account?  Are you allowed to surf over to a Social Media site at your office, or is your company blocking access? Those are two questions asked recently to attendees at a Gartner conference on Collaboration