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Storage: Cisco Predicts Mass Migration of Data from Local PCs to Cloud and non-PC devices by 2019

By Dick Weisinger

The volume of cloud traffic is exploding.  Cisco estimates that in 2015 total global cloud traffic will be on the order of 2.1 Zettabytes (ZB), and they predict that cloud traffic will grow to 8.6 zettabytes by 2019.  Cloud traffic

Data Management: Data Silos Never Vanish

By Dick Weisinger

Data silos have been the “scourge of enterprises” for years.  The root of the problem are applications that are isolated and manage their own data without communicating with other applications.  Silo-ed information, while often valuable and even vital, often goes unanalyzed

Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solutions (HCIS) Market: 116 Percent Growth in 2015

By Dick Weisinger

Where are technologies like virtualization, containerization, and software-defined enterprises taking us?  Hyperconvergence is a term some are beginning to use to describe an architecture for IT infrastructure that builds on a set of nodes that work together to manage computing and

Big Data: Data-First Philosophy Enables Businesses to Think Before they Act

By Dick Weisinger

Data First is a philosophy of using data as a guiding factor in all business decisions and actions.  Advances and successes in Big Data and analytic technologies have businesses clamoring to try it out. Pedro Cardoso, technology consultant, identified three phases to

Cloud-based Data Warehousing: Snowflake, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Redshift

By Dick Weisinger

Data warehousing traditionally required a company to extract and download huge volumes of data from various business software systems into a central repository for analysis.  The process to prep the data was slow which meant that the analysis was always run against