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Yearly Archives: 2011

Technology: Data Centers Popping Up Everywhere

By Dick Weisinger

The exuberance over cloud computing is translating into a booming business for data centers.  It seems like Google is announcing weekly plans for a new data center to be opened in new locations — last month: three in Asia,  one…

SaaS: The Stampede into Cloud-Based Apps continues

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner’s most recent report on the state of the SaaS computing market indicates that this year has seen a turning point.  Up until now organizations were using SaaS for pilots or for small point solutions.  But over the last three…

ECM: Formtek Announces SOLR Integration for Orion ECM

By Dick Weisinger

Formtek releases version 5.4.2 of the Formtek | Orion 5 SDK Pure Java API™ product for Windows and Linux, which provides support for Full-Text Indexing and Search. Formtek Full-Text search integrates a highly-scalable SOLR full-text search engine into the SDK of…

Technology: Rapid Gains for HTML5, But Challenges Ahead

By Dick Weisinger

HTML5 is the next generation of the HTML language used to markup, layout and present content in web browsers.  It directly challenges proprietary rich-content technologies like Adobe’s Flash.  Two factors that are driving its rapid adoption are mobile and Apple’s…

Security and Social Media: Half of Companies See Increase in Malware Attacks

By Dick Weisinger

Yesterday we saw some startling statistics from the Ponemon Institute on the high frequency of computer fraud in organizations.  A parallel report, the Global Survey on Social Media Risks by the Ponemon Institute, looks at another area of security where organizations are…