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DST — A Ticking Time Bomb?

By Dick Weisinger

Daylight Savings Time is going into effect early this year — starting this weekend.  Cross your fingers.  I’ll be in the air this weekend, over the Atlantic, on my way to a customer in Europe when Daylight Savings Time kicks…

Compliance: Multiple Regulations? Merge and Conquer

By Dick Weisinger

There are a lot more regulations under the umbrella of compliance than just Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX).  IT groups, especially those in the financial services area, are under pressure to comply with multiple regulations from federal and state governments that may include BASEL II,…

Data Deluge: More Numbers Predict Crushing Amounts of Information

By Dick Weisinger

Just when people are becoming familiar with the concept of a terrabyte and are starting to see references to petabyte-sized storage systems, the world is moving up to the next level up of storage, the exabyte, that’s 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes. Exabyte are…

ECM: Documentum Chief Leaves EMC for McAfee

By Dick Weisinger

  David DeWalt is leaving the storage and information infrastructure powerhouse EMC for McAfee, Inc.  DeWalt first joined EMC in 2003 after EMC acquired Documentum while he was serving as president and CEO.  During his two years at Documentum prior to…

Open Source: Another Wrinkle in Business Models

By Dick Weisinger

There’s a lot of people convinced that Open Source is huge.  That it’s disruptive.  That it’s the future.  But there are also a lot of people struggling with business plans that try to make Open Source their centerpiece. About a…