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Data Management: Developers Increasingly Tap NoSQL for Solutions Requiring Data Flexibility and Scalability

By Dick Weisinger

Over the last three years the banner of NoSQL (not only SQL) databases has flown ever higher, and the non-conventional database technology has grown a fairly large crowd of supporters, including major internet companies like Google, Amazon, Twitter, and Facebook.…

Business Analytics: Deloitte Sees Business Intelligence and Analytics as Transformative for Businesses

By Dick Weisinger

Expectations and excitement are high for Business Intelligence and Business Analytics in 2012.  James Richardson, Research Director at Gartner, said that “BI is about putting the I in CIO. Information will electrify your organisation.” Deloitte identified four trends in Business…

ECM: Forrester Predicts 2012 to be a Break-Out Year for Content

By Dick Weisinger

Despite the slowdown in the economy, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) market hasn’t exactly been on hard times.  Gartner estimates that ECM spending grew at 5.9 percent in 2009, followed by 7.6 percent growth in 2010.  Gartner forecasts that ECM will grow…

Extreme Data: High Speed Growth Predicted for Big Data Market

By Dick Weisinger

During the start of 2012, analysts have been busy collecting data points and crunching the numbers to determine the size and trajectory of the Big Data market.  There is some divergence between the results of the analyses — but it’s…

Cloud Computing: GSA Pushes Forward Government Adoption of the Cloud with FedRaMP

By Dick Weisinger

In January, the US Federal government issued a comprehensive list of 168 security control requirements in 16 categories that cloud providers must first comply with before being able to provide services to any Federal agency.   The requirements cover, for example,…