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Storage: Smart storage products save big space

By Dick Weisinger

Storage Magazine has announced their list of Best Storage Products from 2006.  Storage hardware is definitely getting smarter.  Two similar features that propagated through vendor products in 2006 are deduplication and single-instance storage (SIS).  Both of these technologies try to identify data redundencies and…

SOA: Shades of SOA

By Dick Weisinger

Last May at JavaOne, Oracle and Gartner outlined a vision of something that they called SOA 2.0.  They defined SOA 2.0 as a move away from ‘traditional SOA’ and Web Services based on a client-server model with services being treated…

Search: Desktop Search can't stop Information Overload

By Dick Weisinger

Nucleus Research reports that Desktop Search is not the Answer.  95% of the users surveyed use some sort of desktop search, and two-thirds say that they are overwhelmed by information overload. The problem is that many companies continue to silo information…

ECM: Surge of online content eludes management

By Dick Weisinger

Companies with Content Management Systems are happy with them.  Enterprise Management Associates‘s (EMA) January 2007 enterprise content management report found that, when an ECM system was in place, 80 percent surveyed rated their Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions as being effective with at worst…

Enterprise 2.0: Grassroots Mashups + SOA = Managed Mashups ?

By Dick Weisinger

SOA has met with success and acceptance because of its ability to meld together so many disparate systems, uniting data by tunneling between isolated information silos.  But Web 2.0’s mashup combinations using technologies like RSS, REST and AJAX is achieving the same kind…