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Technology: Gartner's 2009 Hype Cycle

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner is out with their list of most highly hyped technologies for 2009.  It is a familiar list with all entries identical to those of 2008 except that Computing Fabric (Grid computing) has been replaced with Cloud computing. Gartner defines…

Compliance: Sarbanes-Oxley's Grip on Internal Audits Loosens

By Dick Weisinger

Internal audit departments have hyper-focused on Sarbanes-Oxley since the legislation went into effect in 2002.  The initial confusion around exactly what Sarbanes-Oxley entailed meant that many risk-adverse companies overdid efforts to ensure that they were within compliance.  It hasn’t been…

PLM: An Update on the 2009 PLM Market

By Dick Weisinger

The economy has been bad, and that is reflected in an update of CIMdata’s forecast for the PLM industry.  Companies are investing less in PLM infrastructure than expected, and that has resulted in a revision downward of their expectations.  In…

ECM: Is ECM on your Disaster Recovery CheckList?

By Dick Weisinger

Of 1500 ECM clients that Gartner speaks to regularly, none even think to ever bring up the subject of disaster recovery (DR), says Gartner analyst John Morency.  And that’s a problem. “In a lot of cases they are so focused…

Storage: Unstructured Data Swamps Storage Administrators

By Dick Weisinger

IDC reports that 75% of new data being stored on new dick storage capacity is unstructured data.  That’s consistent with the 80% figure that’s often cited by AIIM and other vendors. And when coupled with an expected annual growth rate…