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Yearly Archives: 2010

Cloud Computing: Third Party Software Worries

By Dick Weisinger

You probably know that until 2004 Google’s search engine powered Yahoo! and that now that privilege belongs to Microsoft’s new Bing search engine.  Software powered by bits and pieces of software from other vendors isn’t anything new.  With traditional software vendors,

Social Media: Companies Invest in Collaboration

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprise 2.0 is the term used to described the union of Business, Social Media and Web 2.0.  To date, many companies have been lukewarm to Enterprise 2.0, but companys’ attitudes towards collaboration tools appears to be changing.  A recent survey

Storage: Sales Starting to Move Back On Track

By Dick Weisinger

The storage market saw a glimmer of hope in the fourth quarter of 2009.  That was the first quarter of year-over-year market growth in one year, although .2 percent growth is a bit anemic.  IDC reported that in the fourth

Technology: Text Analytics for Reducing Data Overload

By Dick Weisinger

Researchers in the area of content analytics or text analytics are building new tools to help make sense of the ever growing amount of data being created.  The focus of text analytics is on being able to unlock information that

Open Source: Free the Data!

By Dick Weisinger

The term “Open Source” has been with us since 1998.  And in those twelve years it has had a significant impact on the software industry.  Open Source initially influenced how software is developed, but Open Source has also had a