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Data Mining: Are Your Old Data Archives a Source of Untapped Revenue?

By Dick Weisinger

Your archived data may have unlocked value.  That’s the conclusion of a study by IDC sponsored by Iron Mountain.  The report found that some businesses that have started to mine data locked away in old archives have been able to…

Amazon TLS: Amazon Offers Simpler More-Secure Open-Source Replacement to OpenSSL

By Dick Weisinger

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released an alternative cryptographic module for transmitting data across the Internet.  They’re calling it “s2n“, short for “signal-to-noise”.  s2n is an implementation of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and could be a successor to OpenSSL…

Storage: Vendor Revenues Up Despite Declining Prices as Capacity Shipped Explodes

By Dick Weisinger

Disk storage capable of holding up to 28 billion gigabytes or 28.3 exabytes were sold in the first quarter of 2015, according to a report by IDC.  That’s a 41 percent jump from sales in the same quarter in 2014.…

Federal Records Management: Guidance on Metadata and Cloud Computing Still Lacking

By Formtek

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) periodically audits the effectiveness of records management policies being implemented by both NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) and federal agencies.  In May 2015, the GAO issued an updated report on the progress of Records…

Data Analytics: Businesses Say Analysis Takes Too Long

By Dick Weisinger

The biggest gripe that businesses have with Data Analytics is that it takes too long, according to a survey by Researchscape International and sponsored by Data Intensity.  Nearly two-thirds of businesses using data analytics cited that issue in the survey. Other…