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Data Quality: Poor Quality Threatens the Usability of Data Analytics

By Dick Weisinger

The National Audit Office in the UK recently found major problems in data quality that threaten a new £1 billion MoD inventory management system. But the UK MoD is not alone with data quality problems.  A report by Teksystems found…

Programming: Google Readies New Version of Angular Javascript Framework

By Dick Weisinger

AngularJS 2.0 is an upgrade version of Google’s popular Javascript framework.  This new version has significant new features and is expected to be faster and simpler. Technology and web standards are evolving, and with those changes Javascript frameworks seem to come…

Cloud Computing: Businesses Continue to Move Data to the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

Nearly one third (31 percent) of companies have more than 40 percent of their workloads running on internal clouds, according to the respondents of a recent ODCA (Open Data Center Alliance) survey.  That’s expected to grow to 70 percent by…

Storage: Weak Sales of External Storage in 2013

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner reports that global external storage sales increased just five percent in the fourth quarter of 2013 compared to the fourth quarter in 2012.  2013 fourth quarter external storage revenues totaled $6.3 billion,and total sales for all of 2013 came…

Health Care Data Storage: Health Care IT Executives Worry about Rapid Data Growth

By Dick Weisinger

Over the next two years, data managed by health care providers about their patients and their businesses is expected to increase dramatically.  Three drivers for the huge uptake of data, as identified in an Iron Mountain report on HIMSS analytics,…