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Yearly Archives: 2011

Health Care: EMR Adoption Climbing and Expected to be Strong over the next Five Years

By Dick Weisinger

The deadline for the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act has many scrambling to adopt EMR systems before that deadline in order to qualify for the funding.  Incentive funding via HITECH to hospitals and physicians to adopt Electronic Medical Records

Big Data: Best Practices for Building Competency with Hadoop

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data platforms based on Hadoop and MapReduce technology are becoming increasingly popular.  But how can this organizations most effectively use them? James G. Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research, recommends in the report “Enterprise Hadoop Best Practices: Concrete Guidelines

Cloud Computing Security: Can the Cloud Ever Be More Secure than On-Premise?

By Dick Weisinger

On one hand there is a widely held belief that, by its very nature, data stored in the cloud is not as secure as data managed on-premise.   That sentiment plays front and center with warnings like the one from Francis

Big Data: Some Companies Are Over Their Head — Suffering from 'Insight Deficit'

By Dick Weisinger

Over half of global enterprises are allocating money to spend on Big Data IT investments over the next two to five years, and a third of all global companies will begin spending on Big Data technologies over the next year.

Enterprise Software: Big Data and Cloud Drive Growth in Use of Data Integration Tools

By Dick Weisinger

The market for data integration tools grew 20 percent in 2010 to $1.63 billion.   And the market is expected to grow another 15% in 2011.  That’s according to Gartner’s 2011 report on Data Integration Tools. Gartner says that “Data