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Storage: More than a billion served…

By Dick Weisinger

Files that is. IBM is pushing the envelope in supporting super-fast access to files across a shared-disk clustered file system. They call the new technology the General Parallel File System (GPFS). Typically a file server is a single machine that…

Sun: Sun Reaches out to the BRIC Billions

By Dick Weisinger

They are only four counties: Brazil, Russia, India and China, the so-called BRIC countries. Today their economies still are fairly small compared to the US, Europe and Japan. IDC estimates the total global IT market to be $1.16trn compared to…

SOA: The Real Meaning of the Enterprise Service Bus

By Dick Weisinger

Tech terminology. Exact definitions are often hard to come by. What do people really mean when they say SOA, or Web 2.0, or ESB? In a Microsoft blog by Nick Allen, Nick decided to track down and compare analyst and…

SaaS: Traditional Software Succeeds on In Bubble Economies

By Dick Weisinger

Phil Wainewright wrote a provocative blog recently where he states that the economics behind the traditional software model are fundamentally flawed. Wainewright quotes an interview with Steve Singh, president of Concur, a software vendor that successfully transformed itself from an…

ECM: Sharepoint 2007 not the Whole Picture to Microsoft's Data Management Initiative

By Dick Weisinger

Microsoft took a swing at the ECM market with it’s Sharepoint 2007 product. Prior versions of Sharepoint were pretty feable in their attempt to address document and content management functionality. Early reviewers have been generally positive in the new capabilities.…