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Storage: A Terabyte isn't What it Used to be

By Dick Weisinger

Times were if anyone talked about data sets that verged on being as large as a terabyte of data there was a sort of awe just thinking about the possibly of collecting and actively using that much data.  Times have…

Storage and Technology: Data Centers Running Low on Power

By Dick Weisinger

The need by organizations to store increasingly large amounts of data are putting a huge strain on data centers.  Consider just one piece of the data puzzle — emails.  John Shackleton, CEO of Open Source, estimates that with large enterprises…

Records Management: Alfresco's Open Source Option

By Dick Weisinger

April has traditionally been celebrated as Records and Information Management Month (RIMM). So no better time than to give a look at Alfresco’s recently released Records Management module. Alfresco Records Management is certified for the DoD 5015.2 Standard. Below is…

Open Source: SaaS Threatens the future of OS

By Dick Weisinger

Dries Buytaert, founder of the popular Open Source CMS Drupal product, says that cloud computing has done an ‘end run’ around the Open Source community.  His point is that while SaaS and Cloud computing is offering up a totally new…

Big Data: The Revolution of Sensor Data

By Dick Weisinger

Over the last 15 years the internet has managed to touch and change many aspects of our lives.  But the change is far from over.  The Internet is now becoming the delivery channel for huge streams of data being generated…