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Yearly Archives: 2015

Container Technology: Rapid Adoption Expected Over Next Year

By Dick Weisinger

First came a wave of virtualization technology.  Now we have containers.  While not direct competitors, the two technologies have overlap.  The difference between the two is primarily a matter of scope.  The scope of containers is restricted to a single…

Internet of Things (IoT): The Challenges Ahead

By Dick Weisinger

The Internet of Things (IoT) movement is about making common object smart.  It’s about enabling ‘dumb’ objects to be able to communicate information that they’ve sensed or related to their proximity.  Associated with the move to smart objects is the…

Big Data: Systems Of Insight to Revolutionize Businesses

By Dick Weisinger

In 2011 in a whitepaper for AIIM, Geoffrey Moore coined the terms “System of Record” and “System of Engagement”.  Since then these terms have been picked up by and used frequently by analysts and organizations like Forrester, AIIM, HP and…

Big Data: Data-First Philosophy Enables Businesses to Think Before they Act

By Dick Weisinger

Data First is a philosophy of using data as a guiding factor in all business decisions and actions.  Advances and successes in Big Data and analytic technologies have businesses clamoring to try it out. Pedro Cardoso, technology consultant, identified three phases to…

Structured Data: Traditional RDBMS Databases Still Rule Data Management

By Dick Weisinger

A recent report by Dell finds that structured and transactional data remains as some of the most highly valued data managed by businesses. The Dell report found that “although advancements in the ability to capture, store, retrieve and analyze new…