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Technology: IT Spending Expected Up in 2010

By Dick Weisinger

Coming off of a bad year in 2009, global IT spending is now on track to reach $3.4 trillion  in 2010, up 5.3 per cent on last year, according to Gartner.  New hardware is the main source of the growth.…

Storage: VC Money Flows to Big Data and Storage Start ups

By Dick Weisinger

2009 was a bad year for VC monies flowing into new startups.  Some analysts warn that 2011 and 2012 will be years short on innovation since the pipeline leading up to innovative new products dried up beginning in the fall…

Data Virtualization Unifies Enterprise Data

By Dick Weisinger

Data fragmentation across repositories is a problem that plagues most companies and is a problem that has been around for almost as long as companies have been using computers. The source of the problem is the use of multiple repositories.…

Data: Making sense of it with Infographics

By Dick Weisinger

USA Today was a pioneer in the trend towards creating a more graphic presentation of news data.  The newspaper sensed early on that people are often more quick at understanding complex news and facts when data is presented graphically.  USA…

Storage: A Terabyte isn't What it Used to be

By Dick Weisinger

Times were if anyone talked about data sets that verged on being as large as a terabyte of data there was a sort of awe just thinking about the possibly of collecting and actively using that much data.  Times have…