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Cloud Computing: $50 Billion For Open Data Centers

By Dick Weisinger

Data centers should be simple, efficient and open.  With that as a goal, the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) was formed in October by 70 different companies.  While Intel has been the principle promoter of the group, potential cloud consumers…

Data Centers: Choking on Data

By Dick Weisinger

Data centers, by definition, are designed to manage data, so it seems a bit odd that Gartner cites too much data as the number one challenge that data centers must come to grips with.  Enterprise data is currently growing at…

Records Management: Paper Records Slow to Die

By Dick Weisinger

An AIIM survey on the use of records management in organizations  in 2009 found explosive growth in the volume of electronic records being used, but somewhat surprisingly found little drop off in the use of paper records.  Paper remains at…

Cloud Computing and Security: Survey Points to Massive Confusion

By Dick Weisinger

The number one concern that people cite when discussing the cloud is security.  Forrester is predicting a huge turn around in this attitude by 2015 when Forrester thinks that people will consider cloud computing more secure than on-premise system.  At…

The Enterprise IT Revolution: Demise of Enterprise IT?

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprise IT as we know it today will be a thing of the past within ten years time.  That’s the forecast by analysts at ZapThink.  They’re calling the current situation a ‘crisis point’.  While most IT managers can see that…