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Yearly Archives: 2011

Records Management: NARA struggling with Data Volumes, Social Media and the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

NARA, the National Archives and Records Administration, against a backdrop of rapidly chaning technologies,  is under pressure to modernize their approach to managing records.  Historically NARA has been a trendsetter and a model for US businesses, showcasing best practices for

Business Intelligence: 'Data Black Spots' Cloud Decisions

By Dick Weisinger

“Every organization has to improve how its leaders make decisions. Managers must be able to turn information into insights, then convert insights into actions and be sure those actions produce positive outcomes.”  That’s the conclusion in an August report published

BPM and ECM: The Process is the Focus

By Dick Weisinger

In a new report that reviews the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) industry, the Real Story Group questions how accurately the name ECM now captures the technology that it is supposed to describe.  The discussion around re-naming ECM isn’t a new

Big Data's Big Traffic: Have we reached the Point of Disconnect?

By Dick Weisinger

IDC/EMC estimate that the total amount of globally stored digital information is somewhere around 1 zetabyte (or one trillion gigabytes) and that stored data is expected to reach 35 zetabytes before 2020.  Forrester Reasearch concurs and estimated that the size

Storage: In Scale-up Versus Scale-out Wars, Scale-out has Momentum

By Dick Weisinger

A recent article on GigaOm compared the storage strategies being promoted by HP and Oracle.  The article by Barb Darrow, senior writer at GigaOm,  commented that the difference between the two approaches was a perfect example of “a classic scale-up