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Yearly Archives: 2011

Data Management: Lessons from the Life Sciences Industry

By Dick Weisinger

Zackary King, Senior Vice President of Trinity Insights,  in a recent blog post recently summarized problems and challenges related to data management, particularly for data collected within the pharmaceutical and life science industries, but his observations are relevant for the management…

Security: Cybercrime Costs and Incidents SkyRocket

By Dick Weisinger

Over the last year there has been a spike in the frequency and severity of cybercrime incidents.  The number of incidents reported increased by 56 percent and the average annual cost to a mid-size business now totals $6 million.  That…

Data Storage: Mistaking Backups for Archives

By Dick Weisinger

Companies often make the mistake of confusing archives with backups.  That’s an observation made by Laura Guio, IBM Vice President, Storage Sales, Systems & Technology Group, at the 2011 Implementing Information Infrastructure Symposium (IIIS) in Sydney sponsored by ComputerWorld. Backups and Archive…

Enterprise Software: App Stores Revive Enterprise Apps

By Dick Weisinger

In another sign that consumer technology is influencing the direction of technology used in the enterprise, App Stores catering to the needs of the enterprise are beginning to popup.  Apple popularized the on-line self-service model for selling software and data…

Security: People Continue to be the Weakest Link

By Dick Weisinger

A recent spate of hackings and breakins, including highly secure organizations like the Pentagon, EMC’s RSA and Lockheed Martin, has clearly shown that every organization is vulnerable.  Often it’s not the technology, the encryption and authentication methods or the firewalls…