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Technology: XBRL Mandatory by mid-2009

By Dick Weisinger

The SEC voted 4 to 1 to require the largest 500 public companies to use XBRL when filing financial reports by mid-2009. Other companies are required to follow in 2010, and foreign companies doing business in the US will need…

Storage: Storage Management Still 'A Work In Progress'

By Dick Weisinger

Phillip Sargeant, an analyst with Gartner, is calling storage management from today’s vendors as still ‘a work in progress‘, adding that systems are not ‘as mature as they could be’.  Sargeant said that collaborative applications, Web 2.0 and unstructured data…

Technology: Downturn in Economy Means Less Money for IT

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner has revised downward its estimates for IT spending over the next four years because of the severe downturn in the economy. The estimates still forecast growth in the industry, just not as fast as what had been earlier forecast.…

Storage: How much of your data is unstructured?

By Dick Weisinger

When asked that question across a survey of more than 1000 CIOs, Those asked estimated that 25% of their total data stored was unstructured. But those estimates were off. The reality is though that more than 70% of data being…

Content Management: Video Changes the Game

By Dick Weisinger

With 44 percent of enterprises already archiving video information and another 22 percent preparing to do the same in 2009, content management needs to change to keep up. Most content management systems have targeted images and office-style electronic documents. The…