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Yearly Archives: 2010

Technology: Efficient Data Formats for Storing and Analyzing Data

By Dick Weisinger

Twitter tweets are restricted to only 140 characters, but multiply that by the trillions of tweets that are out in the wild and you have a lot of data that needs to be stored.  Every day, at the current rate,

Health Care: Electronic Health Records Bring Efficiency and Savings

By Dick Weisinger

Doctors and small medical practices are rushing to sign up for Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems in order to collect government stimulus incentive money for adopting electronic records systems.  The incentives are pretty sizable, but even without that money, EHR

Cloud Computing: Vendors Focus on Improving Security Weaknesses

By Dick Weisinger

Secure Cloud Computing.  To some, at least with the current state of technology, that might sound like an oxymoron.  When asked about cloud computing, security is the main issue that concerns most organizations.  That sentiment isn’t being ignored by cloud

Technology: Windows is Losing Enterprise Market Share to Linux

By Dick Weisinger

Linux is now the most favored OS for enterprise servers by a wide margin.  As new servers are being deployed, Linux servers are the preferred replacement for Windows and UNIX servers.  A report from the Linux Foundation based on a

Compliance and Records Management: Less than a Quarter of Companies Follow Through on Data Retention Policies

By Dick Weisinger

Most companies understand the fundamentals of Compliance and Records Management.  As many as 98 percent of large Fortune 1000 companies say that they understand the importance of the notion of record retention and destruction.  The problem is though that companies