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Data Mining: Are Your Old Data Archives a Source of Untapped Revenue?

By Dick Weisinger

Your archived data may have unlocked value.  That’s the conclusion of a study by IDC sponsored by Iron Mountain.  The report found that some businesses that have started to mine data locked away in old archives have been able to…

Amazon TLS: Amazon Offers Simpler More-Secure Open-Source Replacement to OpenSSL

By Dick Weisinger

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released an alternative cryptographic module for transmitting data across the Internet.  They’re calling it “s2n“, short for “signal-to-noise”.  s2n is an implementation of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and could be a successor to OpenSSL…

Storage: Vendor Revenues Up Despite Declining Prices as Capacity Shipped Explodes

By Dick Weisinger

Disk storage capable of holding up to 28 billion gigabytes or 28.3 exabytes were sold in the first quarter of 2015, according to a report by IDC.  That’s a 41 percent jump from sales in the same quarter in 2014.…

Data Analytics: Businesses Say Analysis Takes Too Long

By Dick Weisinger

The biggest gripe that businesses have with Data Analytics is that it takes too long, according to a survey by Researchscape International and sponsored by Data Intensity.  Nearly two-thirds of businesses using data analytics cited that issue in the survey. Other…

Security: CyberAttacks Costly to Businesses

By Dick Weisinger

The average cost of a data breach today is $3.8 million, according to a study conducted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by IBM.  That’s a 23 percent increase over the costs involved as computed in 2013. When looked at on…