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NoSQL: The Rise of Graph Databases

By Dick Weisinger

Graph databases manage maps of interconnections between objects.  With the rise of Social Media, Graph databases are increasingly being used because they are a natural fit for modeling things like interconnected web links, recommendations, tags, and friend and contact relationships.…

SaaS: Integration of Cloud to On-Premise is a Key Step to Begin Migration to Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

As SaaS cloud implementations move ever towards a future dominated with software configuration rather than customization, it’s interesting that a survey of cloud providers finds that nearly 90 percent of them now see integrations of their applications with others as…

Data Centers: The High Cost of Downtime

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud Computing services from Google and Microsoft offer guaranteed uptimes of better than 99.9%.  While that sounds good, it’s not good enough for many application. Mission critical apps need to be up at all times and typically target an availability…

Big Data: Enabling the Right Hemisphere with 3D Visualization

By Dick Weisinger

SAP has started marketing a visual enterprise platform which incorporates real-time 3D visualization as part of a data management solutions.   That’s just one example.  Increasingly Big Data is being teamed with Big Computing (the product of Moore’s Law applied…

Big Data: Comprehensive Data and Context Lead to Better Decisions

By Dick Weisinger

What makes Big Data hard?  Businesses are increasingly finding that the challenge of Big Data is less on the collection of large data sets and more how to analyze and make sense of the data once it is available.  A…