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Web2.0: Only Getting Stronger in 2008

By Dick Weisinger

Four years ago at the O’Reilly Media Web 2.0 Conference the term ‘Web 2.0’ was born. The term refers to the collaborative nature of newer web-based technologies, and includes things like social networking, RSS, wikis, blogs and folksonomies. 2007 saw…

Technology: OS Rules Java Application Servers

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source Java Application Servers are dominating the market for Java Application Servers. While proprietary vendors like IBM, Oracle and BEA have wide acceptance, Open Source projects like Apache Tomcat, JBoss, Sun Java Enterprise System and Glassfish make up a…

Technology: Build-Your-Own Data Center

By Dick Weisinger

Competitive advantage. It’s the secret ingredient of many highly successful companies. The problem is that today’s hard-to-copy innovations are often tomorrow’s bargain-priced commodities. One example is what’s happening now with data centers. The recipe for the secret ingredients behind the…

Technology: What elixir can defeat obsolesence?

By Dick Weisinger

Technology museums are packed with memories of years not too long gone of things that once seemed indispensable: the punch card, the slide rule, the stock ticker, the floppy disk. The mainframe? Think again. The mainframe is still with us…

Storage: Growth in Virtualization

By Dick Weisinger

Already 21 percent of companies are using Storage Virtualization. That number is set to more than double as 26 percent of companies report on plans on taking on storage virtualization projects in the next six to twelve months. That’s the…