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Yearly Archives: 2011

Storage: Enterprises Increasingly Adopt FLASH-based SSDs as Price Point Drops

By Dick Weisinger

Solid state drives (SSDs) are increasingly being used by large enterprises.   These drives are called ‘solid state’ because they use semiconductors, typically Flash memory, rather than magnetic media which is used in standard mechanical hard drives.  The advantages of…

Enterprise Social: Business Chart Investments in Collaborative Tools

By Dick Weisinger

The Enterprise is feeling pressure to adopt for internal use some of the same sorts of   social media technologies made popular by FaceBook, Twitter, WordPress, Blogger and Wikipedia.  A Forrester Research report written by Rob Koplowitz, vice president and…

Mobile Security: Security Efforts Shift to Mobile

By Dick Weisinger

While the use of security software on PCs has become a routine operation, the same isn’t true yet for smartphones and other mobile devices.  But that is changing quickly.   In a report by Chenxi Wang, Vice President and analyst…

Business Intelligence: Big Hopes for Big Data

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data is the rage.  But exactly what are people going to use it for? A recent survey by The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) and reported in ComputerWorld by Jaikumar Vijayan categorized some of the most common ways people are…

Cloud Computing: The Evolution of Cloud Standards

By Dick Weisinger

The good news is that there seems to be near universal agreement, excluding perhaps from public cloud-leader Amazon (although Amazon might be considered the de facto standard), that standards are important for the future success of cloud computing.  The problem…