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Storage: Storage Market Continues Rapid Growth

By Dick Weisinger

An IDC report shows the Storage market continued to be hot in 2006Q3.  Fueling the growth, the report cites four factors: Consolidation of Data because of server virtualization Branch office consolidation Trend of organizations to retain more information, such as for Regulatory

Top 10 Trends in ECM

By Dick Weisinger

Here are 10 top trends in the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) space: Consolidation.  IBM/Filenet, Oracle/Stellent, Open Text/Hummingbird/Red Dot, EMC/Documentum/Captiva.  I’ve written about the consolidation trends here and here and here. Compliance.  Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, FDA CPR-21, SEC 17a-4, and risk compliance are examples

Storage: Storage for SMBs now with Enterprise-Level Features

By Dick Weisinger

Falling storage prices and rising storage capacities are doing well in keeping pace with the ever-increasing storage demands imposed by regulations like HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley.  A new generation of products are being introduced that target SMBs (Small and Medium Business)

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