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Health Care: EHR Data Storage Costs to be Minimal

By Dick Weisinger

The implementation of EHR systems are ultimately expected to make both hospitals and physicians more efficient, less error prone, and to save money.  A study by CDW HealthCare in late 2010 estimates that while adoption of an EHR system could cost…

Business Intelligence: Poor Data Quality Threatens Analytics

By Dick Weisinger

Garbage in, Garbage out (GIGO).   It’s a simple truth that has important implications in the world of business intelligence.   While Business Intelligence tools can create beautiful and compelling dashboards and graphics, if the data that the tools rely…

Virtualization and Security: Spending on Security Grows as Servers Migrate to the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

While there has been huge interest and growth in the areas of both cloud computing and virtualization, the enabling technology for cloud computing, the security of these new technologies remains a major concern.  So, it comes as no big surprise…

Storage: Virtualized Environments are Huge Consumers of Storage

By Dick Weisinger

IT infrastructure is experiencing a steady migration of applications from dedicated servers to virtualized machines.  Roughly half (48 percent) of organizations have begun using virtual machines in their environments.  95 percent of organizations say that they plan to deploy virtualized…

Storage: Cloud Implementation Standards Take Hold

By Dick Weisinger

A new standard for cloud storage called the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) is being increasing used by storage vendors in both private and public cloud implementations.  CDMI was created by the Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI), a group within the…