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Yearly Archives: 2011

Security: The Impact of Data Loss on Businesses

By Dick Weisinger

As the use of laptops, smart phones and other mobile devices increases, so too do the number of incidents involving the loss of those devices and the data stored on them.   The DataLossDB website tracks data loss incidents.  It reports…

SaaS and Cloud Computing: Enterprises Move to Cloud-based Email

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud-based email is becoming an increasingly attractive option for organizations.  Right now the cloud-based email only has about a 3 percent share of the total email market, but  Gartner predicts that 10 percent of enterprise users will be using cloud-based…

Social Media: Huge Growth in Advertising Revenues

By Dick Weisinger

The question of how Social Media companies would ever make any money has been answered. Worldwide revenues for Social Media companies, like Facebook and LinkedIn are growing rapidly.  A recent report from Gartner estimated that Social Media revenues will grow…

Data Management: Think 'Better Data' before 'Big Data'

By Dick Weisinger

While all the hype may be around ‘Big Data’ right now, a study on data quality from the University of Texas at Austin (sponsored by Sybase) suggests that ‘Better Data’ might be a more relevant first goal for many companies,…

Storage: Organizations Reassess Storage Strategies

By Dick Weisinger

As the volumes of data that organization store continue to increase, and as technologies like cloud-based storage and solid-state drives mature, organizations are reassessing their approaches towards storing and managing their data. IBM recently polled organizations to get a  pulse…