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Cloud Computing: Could Latency Kill the User Experience

By Dick Weisinger

Forget cloud computing security issues for a minute.  What about latency?  What about the potential painful user experience of excruciatingly long waits?  Relatively cheap and universal broadband connectivity seems to have removed latency as a problem that is often even…

Records Management: Huge Task in Preserving National Records

By Dick Weisinger

The National Archives, long-term preservationists of important US historical documents and records, often serves as an example for industry and organizations for how best to manage and archive documents and records.  So it comes as a bit of an embarrassment…

Technology: Efficient Data Formats for Storing and Analyzing Data

By Dick Weisinger

Twitter tweets are restricted to only 140 characters, but multiply that by the trillions of tweets that are out in the wild and you have a lot of data that needs to be stored.  Every day, at the current rate,…

Health Care: Electronic Health Records Bring Efficiency and Savings

By Dick Weisinger

Doctors and small medical practices are rushing to sign up for Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems in order to collect government stimulus incentive money for adopting electronic records systems.  The incentives are pretty sizable, but even without that money, EHR…

Cloud Computing: Vendors Focus on Improving Security Weaknesses

By Dick Weisinger

Secure Cloud Computing.  To some, at least with the current state of technology, that might sound like an oxymoron.  When asked about cloud computing, security is the main issue that concerns most organizations.  That sentiment isn’t being ignored by cloud…