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Technology: Google at Ten

By Dick Weisinger

Google was ten years old yesterday.  Over that short period of time they’ve come a long way towards “organizing the world’s information and making it universally accessible and userful”.  Every second people all over the world are relying on Google…

Technology: The e-Discovery Team

By Dick Weisinger

We live in a world of specialization. It’s no different in the legal profession. Regulatory compliance has created the need for a legal council that is savvy in both technology and the changing legal climate. These e-Discovery attorneys are a…

Technology: Need a Job? Know Anything about Open Source?

By Dick Weisinger

The on-going slowdown in the economy may be a driver behind rapid growth in the adoption of Open Source software in the enterprise. An O’Reilly report shows that 5 to 15 percent of all open IT jobs mention open source…

Business Intelligence: Tearing down the BI Pyramid — BI for the Masses

By Dick Weisinger

BI tools can be fantastic for identifying and tracking data and trends in a business. The problem is that it currently takes an army of people to prepare the data for BI while typically just a few analysts are able…

Technology: Pushing the Envelope on Database Sizes

By Dick Weisinger

It wasn’t long ago that talk of terabyte databases seemed unfathomable. It hasn’t taken long for terabyte-size data to become commonplace. So it’s not too much of a surprise that now companies are boasting of their petabyte capabilities — that’s…