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Oracle: TopLink Takes on Hibernate

By Dick Weisinger

Oracle released TopLink, their Java-based Object Relational Mapping (ORM) software, with an Open Source License earlier this week.  The TopLink framework lets Java objects be persisted into a relational database or converted to an XML document.  Prior to this announcement,…

DST — A Ticking Time Bomb?

By Dick Weisinger

Daylight Savings Time is going into effect early this year — starting this weekend.  Cross your fingers.  I’ll be in the air this weekend, over the Atlantic, on my way to a customer in Europe when Daylight Savings Time kicks…

Compliance: Multiple Regulations? Merge and Conquer

By Dick Weisinger

There are a lot more regulations under the umbrella of compliance than just Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX).  IT groups, especially those in the financial services area, are under pressure to comply with multiple regulations from federal and state governments that may include BASEL II,…

Data Deluge: More Numbers Predict Crushing Amounts of Information

By Dick Weisinger

Just when people are becoming familiar with the concept of a terrabyte and are starting to see references to petabyte-sized storage systems, the world is moving up to the next level up of storage, the exabyte, that’s 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes. Exabyte are…

ECM: Documentum Chief Leaves EMC for McAfee

By Dick Weisinger

  David DeWalt is leaving the storage and information infrastructure powerhouse EMC for McAfee, Inc.  DeWalt first joined EMC in 2003 after EMC acquired Documentum while he was serving as president and CEO.  During his two years at Documentum prior to…