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Storage: Robust Data Growth But Limited Budgets

By Dick Weisinger

Storage requirements are growing fast, but budgets to address the management of that data are flat or declining.   A fourth quarter 2008 survey of 100 European IT managers found that 66 percent indicated their budgets are the same or will…

Document Management: Arguments for Cost Savings

By Dick Weisinger

In these times of lean budgets and frugal spending, companies are looking for ways to increase productivity and save money.  Document and Content management is one area that large companies have known about and used for years to streamline their…

Open Source Storage: Low-Cost but High-Performance

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source is touching virtually every kind of software application, and storage software is no exception. What makes open source storage software different though is that companies are apprehensive to try it out — at least using it directly. Company…

Open Source: Sun's Only Bright Spot?

By Dick Weisinger

Sun reported a steep loss for the ending quarter.  Sales dropped 10.9% to $3.22 billion. Overall server revenues were down 14% and storage revenue slipped 13%.  That was actually worse than the loss predicted by most analysts, but much of…

SaaS: Best in Class Companies Choose On-Demand

By Dick Weisinger

Best-in-class companies like Citibank and AIG have proved that best decisions aren’t always made by best-in-class companies.  Nonetheless, to become best-in-class, companies do need to make good decisions and get it right a lot of the time.  That’s the premise…