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Technology: Top Technologies in 2013 for Information Management

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner recently named the top nine technology trends that they see will have an major impact in modernizing information management (IM) in 2013. Big Data Modern Information Infrastructure Semantic Technologies The Logical Data Warehouse NoSQL DBMSs In-Memory Computing Chief Data…

Facilities Management: Businesses Slowly Move Away From Management-By-Excel

By Dick Weisinger

A recent survey by the Service Works Group in association with the FMA and i-FM, identified emerging trends in the Facilities Management space.  One trend is a move from the use of spreadsheet management to the use of more-comprehensive targeted Facilities…

Technology: Google's Chrome Cuts Cord from WebKit

By Dick Weisinger

If you’re a web developer, you have undoubtedly experienced the pain of creating a web application that is compatible across browsers.  Having to support Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Internet Explorer 6/7/8/9/10 browsers can be an enormous challenge.   Browsers…

Data Storage: SDS: Dumbing Down Storage Hardware to Achieve Greater Efficiencies

By Dick Weisinger

It’s estimated that there will be 4 zetabytes of information created this year and 2 zetabytes of that will be saved on some sort of storage medium.  How much is that?  A lot.  EMC estimates that the in 2013 that…

Big Data Analytics: Big Blue's BLU Acceleration

By Dick Weisinger

A new package it calls BLU Acceleration was recently announced by IBM Research.  BLU is intended to speed up Big Data Analytics (BDA) and reporting.  BLU is currently a technology announcement and not a product, but it undoubtedly being announced partially…