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SaaS: The Allure of On-Demand

By Dick Weisinger

All signs continue to confirm the growth of On-Demand computing infrastructure and applications. Managed service providers are seeing strong demand for the off-site hosting of applications. A report by market research firm In-Stat predicts that the SaaS market will see…

Storage: Growth in Virtualization

By Dick Weisinger

Already 21 percent of companies are using Storage Virtualization. That number is set to more than double as 26 percent of companies report on plans on taking on storage virtualization projects in the next six to twelve months. That’s the…

Oracle: Strong Growth, But Analysts Not Satistifed

By Dick Weisinger

Third quarter results for Oracle were just announced. But Oracle failed to impress analysts. Many had expected to see stronger growth by Oracle in their applications business. Oracle reported 7 percent growth to $451 million for the quarter, compared to…

SOA: Spending and Acceptance on the Rise — But what about reuse?

By Dick Weisinger

53 percent of companies have adopted Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) and those companies, on average, are spending $1.4 million on SOA implementation. 45 percent of adopters are spending over $500,000. And the acceptance rate of the technology is growing at…

ECM: Alfresco Most Disruptive Player?

By Dick Weisinger

The vendor landscape of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is changing.  Microsoft is trying hard to commoditize the lower end of the market with Sharepoint.  And Open-Source Alfresco is taking head-on traditional commercial ECM vendors.  Ovum Research’s Mike Davis said: Alfresco…