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SOA: Back from the Dead?

By Dick Weisinger

About a year ago Anne Thomas Manes of the Burton Group declared that “SOA is Dead; Long live Services!”.   Manes wrote that “SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact…

Cloud Computing: Third Party Software Worries

By Dick Weisinger

You probably know that until 2004 Google’s search engine powered Yahoo! and that now that privilege belongs to Microsoft’s new Bing search engine.  Software powered by bits and pieces of software from other vendors isn’t anything new.  With traditional software vendors,…

Social Media: Companies Invest in Collaboration

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprise 2.0 is the term used to described the union of Business, Social Media and Web 2.0.  To date, many companies have been lukewarm to Enterprise 2.0, but companys’ attitudes towards collaboration tools appears to be changing.  A recent survey…

Storage: Sales Starting to Move Back On Track

By Dick Weisinger

The storage market saw a glimmer of hope in the fourth quarter of 2009.  That was the first quarter of year-over-year market growth in one year, although .2 percent growth is a bit anemic.  IDC reported that in the fourth…

Technology: Text Analytics for Reducing Data Overload

By Dick Weisinger

Researchers in the area of content analytics or text analytics are building new tools to help make sense of the ever growing amount of data being created.  The focus of text analytics is on being able to unlock information that…