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Storage Technology: New Discoveries of Magnetic Material Behavior Could Simplify Storage

By Dick Weisinger

Geoffrey Beach, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at MIT, and graduate students Uwe Bauer and Satoru Emori, recently reported discoveries in the area of magnetism that have significant implications for magnetic storage. Beach’s team discovered a method for…

Storage: Global Storage Sales See Rapid Growth but Tempered by Technologies like Virtualization and Compression

By Dick Weisinger

The worldwide storage market increased by 3.2 percent in the first quarter of 2013, compared to 2012 fourth quarter results.  The global enterprise storage market is expected to grow at 4.1 percent annually through 2017 when it will reach $42.5…

Cloud Security: Security Worries Still Stop Many Businesses from Leaping to the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

The good news is that there are fewer concerns about cloud data security.  A recent survey by North Bridge Venture Partners found that the number of IT professionals citing security as their top concern with the cloud dropped from 55…

Enterprise Software: Combining Big Data with CRM will Drive Better Customer Understanding and Service

By Dick Weisinger

Spending by businesses for Enterprise Software will top $304 billion in 2013, a 6.4 percent increase over 2012, according to Gartner.  The top segments within the Enterprise Software category include customer relationship management (CRM), Supply Chain Management, Web Conferencing, and…

Enterprise Search: Solr + Hadoop = Simplified Google-like Big Data Analysis

By Dick Weisinger

One problem with straight-up Hadoop solutions has been the difficulty of performing ad-hoc queries across the entire data set.  Cloudera now offers a solution that combines Apache Solr with Hadoop, a step that could greatly shrink the skill gap that…