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Health Care: Progress in EHR Adoption, but Frustratingly Slow

By Dick Weisinger

The move to electronic health records (EHR) is underway, albeit not as quick as some would like.  While the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reports that over 114,000 physicians and hospitals have registered for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic…

Technology: Top Trends that will shape 2012

By Dick Weisinger

In October, Gartner announced the top technology trends that it saw will drive the technical events of 2012.  The trend list was presented by David Cearley, Distinguished Analyst & Gartner Fellow at Gartner.  Cearley said that the over-arching trend is…

Cloud Computing Storage: Big Data Drives the Cloud Storage Increases

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprise IT strategies are under pressure to change, and increasingly the cloud is becoming an important component in revised strategies.  Analysts at IDC expect that Enterprise IT shops will increasingly implement private-cloud solutions.  And often the central component of these cloud…

Big Data: 12-dimensional Extreme Information Management (EIM)

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data isn’t just ‘Big’, it’s ‘Extreme’.  IBM describes Big Data as having the characteristics of extreme volume, velocity, and variety.  Forrester added variability.  McKinsey Global Institute next threw in value as a fifth ‘V’ descriptor. Well, seemingly not to be…

Big Data: The Five V's — Big Data at Light Speed

By Dick Weisinger

Yesterday we discussed the four parameters — the four V’s — that Forrester uses to describe and understand Big Data: Volume Velocity Variety Variability While the four V’s are catchy, like ‘Big’, the exact meaning of these descriptors can be…