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SaaS: Should you Use SaaS with Enterprise Search?

By Dick Weisinger

Today SaaS-based Enterprise Search doesn’t really make sense mainly because there are no real SaaS Enterprise Search options available.  Endeca’s Paul Sonderegger said that “The SaaS approach has had little impact on the enterprise search market to date.” Blossom, Northern…

Storage: Private Storage Clouds

By Dick Weisinger

Amazon S3 and other public storage offerings have popularized the public storage cloud.  But companies are investigating cost savings that can be derived from their own private versions of cloud storage. Many storage vendors are offering private cloud storage.  The…

Social Computing: Followers versus Fans — Same, but Different

By Dick Weisinger

Two of the hottest social computing technologies going today are Twitter and FaceBook.  Twitter has its followers and Facebook has fans.  And businesses are doing their darnedest to turn the knobs of these high-tech tools to steer as many fans…

Security: Unstructured Data Huge Cyberthreat?

By Dick Weisinger

Federal government IT executives are saying that unstructured data has become their biggest cyberthreat, even more so than SaaS/Cloud computing, Web 2.0, or mobile devices.  That is the finding of a survey taken by Ponemon Institute.  79 percent of the…

Technology: Is eMail Dead?

By Dick Weisinger

The Wall Street Journal has declared that we are approaching the end of the ’email era’.  They see Social Networks as the replacement to email communication, and they base their conclusion on data that shows that social networking is growing…