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Cloud Computing: New Standard for Interoperable Storage

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud computing offers benefits of cost and convenience, but one problem frequently cited is the difficultly of being able to interoperate with data stored in the cloud among different cloud service providers and storage vendors.  A new specification is now…

Cloud Computing: A Storage Dilema for Federal Agencies

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprises of all size are being hit hard by the huge growth in the amount of data they they need to manage.  And federal agencies are no exception.  Federal agencies are managing 14 times the amount of data that was…

BPM: SharePoint Stumbles with Enterprise Workflows

By Dick Weisinger

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is due to be officially announced tomorrow, but thanks to early beta releases and a constant stream of news coverage, the announcement is a bit anti-climatic.  Analysts and early adopters have been kicking the tires for a…

Social Media: Gartner says Enterprise Social Media is inevitable

By Dick Weisinger

Sometime last year the folks at Gartner did an about-face on their stance on the use of Social Media in companies.  There is a switch now from the top priority of aligning business objectives with IT to the idea of…

Data Explosion: Is the Sky Falling?

By Dick Weisinger

The order of progression for naming data storage units goes something like this:  kilo-, mega-, giga-, tera-, peta-, exa-, zetta-, yotta-.  After the yottabyte (10008 bytes) there isn’t an agreed upon name for the next bigger range of computer byte…