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Big Data Analytics: Big Blue's BLU Acceleration

By Dick Weisinger

A new package it calls BLU Acceleration was recently announced by IBM Research.  BLU is intended to speed up Big Data Analytics (BDA) and reporting.  BLU is currently a technology announcement and not a product, but it undoubtedly being announced partially…

Technology: Businesses Rethink In-House Data Centers

By Dick Weisinger

Building and managing a data center.  There are costs related to real estate, construction, power, air conditioning and security.  And then there is the cost of the servers and the recurring costs of hardware and software maintenance and upgrades, the…

Virtual Networks: SDN Market Poised for Fast Growth

By Dick Weisinger

Software-Defined Networks (SDN) have the potential to dramatically transform the way that networks are deployed and operated.  The goal of SDN is to separate out network control from hardware.  In theory hardware costs should fall, and the management of the…

Social Media: Despite Widespread Use, Social Tools Have a Vast Amount of Untapped Potential

By Dick Weisinger

Over the last fifteen years, on-line social networking has grown from virtually zero to now more than 1.5 billion people worldwide.  Roughly 80 percent of all on-line users are also users of social networks.  McKinsey estimates that 70 percent of…

Enterprise Social: Without a Purpose, on-line Communities Wither

By Dick Weisinger

While nearly 70 percent of organizations have adopted some sort of Enterprise social technology, Gartner finds that only about 10 percent of those projects can actually be called successful.  The reason for the high failure rate is that businesses aren’t…