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Data Explosion: Unrelenting Overload

By Dick Weisinger

Here’s some interesting trivia around the huge volumes of data that we’re currently generating: –  Walmart processes 1 million customer transactions an hour –  Facebook hosts 40 billion photos – 667 exabytes will flow through the internet in 2013 These…

Storage: Data Preservation is a Growing Problem

By Dick Weisinger

The King Tut exhibit has recently been at the de Young museum in San Francisco.  The artifacts at the exhibit included statues and even wooden boxes that were amazingly well preserved after three thousand years.  Obviously the dry desert Egyptian…

BPM: Guidelines to For Improving Processes

By Dick Weisinger

Since the fall of 2008, as the economy started tanking, analysts advised companies to increase cost efficiencies by improving their business processes.  The potential benefits of BPM include ‘lowering risk’, and ‘getting more out of what you already have’. Gartner…

Storage: Tiering Data Storage using ILM

By Dick Weisinger

Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) can an important component of  an organization’s storage strategy. ILM can help organizations meet their regulatory compliance requirements, shrink data storage redundancies, and to more cost-effectively store data. The key to creating an ILM system is…

Storage: Sales Growing Again After Weak 2009

By Dick Weisinger

Despite a drop in year-over-year revenues in sales of storage devices in 2009, the actual capacity of storage systems sold actually grew 33 percent in 2009.  The storage market finished the year at $7.3 billion in sales.  Units with a…