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Yearly Archives: 2010

Big Data: Business Differentiator or Standard Way to Do Business?

By Dick Weisinger

A combination of cheap storage, fast processors, business analytic software, and algorithms like MapReduce for processing massive amounts of data have created a new category of technology that people are calling “Big Data”.  When appropriately applied, Big Data can help

Cloud Computing: Feds Test the Water of the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

In the face of diminishing budgets, Cloud computing is looking attractive to government agencies.  But most agencies are unsure of how to proceed and are looking for guidance.   The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has begun an investigation

Social Media: IT executives see Risk

By Dick Weisinger

What are the riskiest areas in Enterprise IT?  That’s the question that IBM put to IT executives, as reported by ZDNet’s Joe McKendrick.  The response to that survey question was: 64 percent cited Social Media as having an “extreme risk”,

Cloud Computing: $50 Billion For Open Data Centers

By Dick Weisinger

Data centers should be simple, efficient and open.  With that as a goal, the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) was formed in October by 70 different companies.  While Intel has been the principle promoter of the group, potential cloud consumers

Data Centers: Choking on Data

By Dick Weisinger

Data centers, by definition, are designed to manage data, so it seems a bit odd that Gartner cites too much data as the number one challenge that data centers must come to grips with.  Enterprise data is currently growing at