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Monthly Archives: September 2010

Storage: Open Source Hardware Creates Peta-Byte Capacity on the Cheap

By Dick Weisinger

First there was server virtualization technology like VMware and Citrix Xen.  But there hasn’t been much equivalent activity around storage virtualization.  It’s really been the software to support storage virtualization that’s been lacking.  Storage hardware costs have dropped significantly.  Commodity…

SaaS: Software Will Never Be the Same

By Dick Weisinger

“Software will never be the same” — that’s the subtitle of a new report from IDC research that describes rapid changes that are occurring around software licensing and delivery because of SaaS .    IDC estimates that worldwide revenues for SaaS…

Technology: How will we do business 10 years from now?

By Dick Weisinger

10 years is a long time for technology.  Things change quickly — something that used to be called “running on Internet Time”.  In 2000 AIIM had just coined the term ECM for Enterprise Content Management.  2000 was the same year…

Cloud Computing: A Slow Spread to Small and Medium Sized Businesses

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud-based application vendors are increasingly targeting small companies (1-99 employees) and many small companies have signed up, primarily for reasons of cheaper cost and greater agility.   But there are also very many small companies that still think of themselves…

Open Source: Vendors increasingly Turn to Open Source When Building Proprietary Software

By Dick Weisinger

The Zenoss survey we cited in yesterday’s blog found that 98 percent of companies have Open Source software running somewhere in their companies.  It turns out that even SAP is changing its mind about Open Source.   SAP has long…