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Data Management: SMBs Struggle in Preparing for Disaster Recovery

By Dick Weisinger

The backup and recovery process is a generally under-appreciated task of IT, until of course, a disaster strikes.  Depending on the nature of the problem, recovery can take considerable time.  Only 7 percent of organizations felt confident that they could

NoSQL Databases: Niche Tools Slowly Taking Their Place in the Enterprise

By Dick Weisinger

NoSQL databases store and retrieve data using techniques other keeping data in structured tabular format like that used in traditional relational databases.  Compared to relational databases, NoSQL databases are often simpler in design, can scale more flexibly, and enable very

Cloud Data Management: SnowFlake: A Relational Database Built for the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

In a world where Big Data technologies like Hadoop, HPCC and SAP HANA dominate the attention among most of the data analytics crowd, it’s almost an anomaly to hear anything about new relational database technology.  But today is different.  Today

File Sync and Share (FSS): Organizations Prefer Private Cloud Options

By Dick Weisinger

Two-thirds of organizations say that when it comes to managing their documents, records and files, that they prefer to keep that data within private cloud storage rather than to jump to public cloud SaaS offerings like Box or DropBox.  The

Data Management: Not-for-Profit Organizations Lack Data Analysis Budgets

By Dick Weisinger

Non-profit organizations, generally budget-starved and short on resources, are finding it harder to make the technology investments that would let them participate in many of the new data-centric technologies.  Two-thirds of non-profits say that they have no connection between their