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Virtual Database Consolidates Search Across Distributed Heterogeneous Databases

By Dick Weisinger

This week Dynatrek, Formtek’s partner in Japan was featured in one of Tokyo’s top financial newspapers.  Dynatrek has a unique patented technique for performing very high performance searches across heterogeneous distributed databases.  Here is the original article and my very rough English translation of…

Future Digital: Storing Content Forever

By Dick Weisinger

   The GPO is faced with the challenging task of perserving millions of documents for historical purposes for future generations. Long term document preservation.  That’s one of the tasks faced by the US Government Printing Office (GPO).  Most company documents…

Document Archival for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

By Dick Weisinger

A Software Information Lifecycle Management survey by UK-based BridgeHead found that Compliance ranked third as a driver for document archival.  First on the list was BC/DR Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.  Second was ‘Data Growth’.  70% of respondents cited Disaster Recovery as…

Email Backup != Email Archive

By Dick Weisinger

A recent online article in Byte and Switch discusses the frequent confusion over the difference between the terms Backup and Archive.  Many people fail to distinguish between the two.  This is particularly true in the case of email. Email backups allow you to…

A Slow Road to SOA?

By Dick Weisinger

Last week I reviewed some SOA adoption statistics.  More stats are out today from Quocirca in the UK and they point to an interesting divide.  It’s clear that on one side are companies in certain vertical industries, like Banking and…