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Businesses Clean House Replacing Legacy Apps: One-Quarter Want to Replace Workflow and Document Management

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses are itching to modernize their IT and business applications, according to a survey by Hitachi Consulting.  90 percent of businesses say that they have to deal with legacy applications that are holding them back.  More than one third say…

Software-Defined Enterprise: Metanautix Quest Software-Defined Data Mart

By Dick Weisinger

A combination of Analytics, Cloud and Mobile are revolutionizing the way many enterprises work.  The fuel that’s powering these technologies is software and data.  The movement towards software started with software-defined servers or server virtualization, but it didn’t stop there.…

3D Printing: Enabling Rapid Product Creation and Small Runs of Highly Custom Products

By Dick Weisinger

Use of 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, is ramping up quickly based on a report by Sculpteo, a 3D printing company.  68 percent of current users of 3D printing are planning to increase their spending in 2015, and…

Big Data: Velocity of Hadoop Adoption Tepid

By Dick Weisinger

The Hadoop hype may be petering out based on the results of a Gartner study.  Gartner found that only about one quarter of businesses say that they are doing anything at all with Hadoop, including piloting and just experimenting.  11…

Container Technology: Startup Datawise.io Simplifies On-Premise Management of a Clustered Container Environment

By Dick Weisinger

Container technology is hot.  Docker is hot.  Containers provide a way to package up and encapsulate everything needed by a single application to run. Containers basically contain the entire runtime environment and all application dependencies, and because of that, containers…