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Business Intelligence: 'Data Black Spots' Cloud Decisions

By Dick Weisinger

“Every organization has to improve how its leaders make decisions. Managers must be able to turn information into insights, then convert insights into actions and be sure those actions produce positive outcomes.”  That’s the conclusion in an August report published…

BPM and ECM: The Process is the Focus

By Dick Weisinger

In a new report that reviews the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) industry, the Real Story Group questions how accurately the name ECM now captures the technology that it is supposed to describe.  The discussion around re-naming ECM isn’t a new…

Big Data's Big Traffic: Have we reached the Point of Disconnect?

By Dick Weisinger

IDC/EMC estimate that the total amount of globally stored digital information is somewhere around 1 zetabyte (or one trillion gigabytes) and that stored data is expected to reach 35 zetabytes before 2020.  Forrester Reasearch concurs and estimated that the size…

Storage: In Scale-up Versus Scale-out Wars, Scale-out has Momentum

By Dick Weisinger

A recent article on GigaOm compared the storage strategies being promoted by HP and Oracle.  The article by Barb Darrow, senior writer at GigaOm,  commented that the difference between the two approaches was a perfect example of “a classic scale-up…

Secure Cloud Computing: Disparity in Level of Comfort Between IT and Compliance Officers

By Dick Weisinger

When it comes to opinions about Cloud technology, IT staff and Compliance officers are on different wavelengths.  A recent study conducted on the Cloud by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by encryption-provider Vormetric found a “gulf” between the opinions of…