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Digital Universe: The Speed of Data Creation is Rapidly Accelerating

By Dick Weisinger

The amount of digital data in the world has been doubling every two years, and is expected to increase by a factor of ten between now and 2020.  That’s an increase from 4.4 trillion gigabytes of information available today to…

Software Defined Storage: Efficiency from Virtualization

By Dick Weisinger

Storage vendors are beginning to roll out smart storage systems based on the idea of ‘software defined storage’.  IBM has introduced technology that they’re calling “Elastic Storage“, and EMC has recently announced their ViPR 2.0 product.  New products like these…

Digital Businesses: Full Commitment to Digital Technology Yields Best Results

By Dick Weisinger

Only 21 percent of CEOs have a clear vision for how digital technologies can be used to help their businesses.  That’s one of the major finding of a report on digital strategies by Forrester Research. The Forrester report said that…

Cloud Computing: Drop in Cloud Pricing Encourage Enterprises to Consume and Spend Even More

By Dick Weisinger

Here are some updated cloud facts: Even while cloud prices continue a relentless drop in price, overall spending on the cloud continues to accelerate. Lower prices entice new enterprise customers into using the cloud. Both large and medium-sized businesses plan…

Collaborative Business Intelligence: Melding Analytics with Social

By Dick Weisinger

Collaborative Business Intelligence (BI) extends the analytic capabilities of business intelligence tools with collaboration capabilities to enable improved data-driven decision making. A report by Dresner Advisory found that 60 percent of companies are interested in deploying Collaborative BI technologies. John O’Rourke,…