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ECM: The Alfresco Vision

By Dick Weisinger

A recent interview of Ovum Research with Alfresco Chairman and CTO, John Newton, gives a great overview of what’s going on at Alfresco, what makes Alfresco unique, and what their challenges they have are going forward. Ovum describes Alfresco as…

SaaS : Number of SaaS installations soon on Par with Traditional Software

By Dick Weisinger

A report from Scottsdale, Arizona-based market researcher In-Stat is predicting that the number of SaaS installations for enterprise applications like CRM and ERP in the US will match the number of installations deployed using traditional software licenses within the next…

Storage: IBM's Quest for Number 1

By Dick Weisinger

In 2007 IBM declared themselves to be the world’s number one data storage company. That claim was based on data from a single report from IDC that considered all disk and tape storage numbers in 2006. In that year IBM…

SaaS: Mainframes Take on the Clouds

By Dick Weisinger

While cloud computing from on-Demand vendors like Salesforce, Amazon, NetSuite, Google and others are all the range, IBM is challenging the idea. IBM contends that on-Demand can’t adequately address issues like reliability, security, auditing, privacy, data integrity, and automation. IBM…

Storage: Save your pictures of the family into the next millenium

By Dick Weisinger

Researchers from UCSC say they’ve found a way to cheaply and reliably store data on standard hard drives for an estimated 1400 years. Data saved on tape today can be expected to last for 10 to 30 years, and data…