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Storage: Growth of Unstructured Data Fuels Storage Needs

By Dick Weisinger, on February 28th, 2007

IBM Global Technology Services forecasts explosive growth in worldwide storage requirements in a July 2006 white paper called “The Toxic Terabyte: How Data-Dumping Threatens Business Efficiency”.  The document is an interesting read and has some statistics, some of which verge on being amazing.

For example, the paper starts with the observation that in 2006, 26,000 million million [...]

February 28th, 2007 | Category: Content Management, Storage | One comment

MetaData: File formats and metadata Cause Legal Headaches

By Dick Weisinger, on February 27th, 2007

Metadata is often defined simply as data that describes data.  In Content Management applications, metadata refers to structured data that gets attached to unstructured documents to provide methods for consistent organization and for searching the unstructured data.  

Metadata is often embedded as part of unstructured file content — Microsoft Office documents is one well-known example.  Embedded metadata is [...]

February 27th, 2007 | Category: Content Management, Metadata | Leave a comment

SaaS/DaaS: Data Sources Powering Mashups

By Dick Weisinger, on February 26th, 2007

SaaS (Software as a Service) are hosted on-demand browser-based applications.  Parallel to SaaS is something I’m calling DaaS (Data as a Service), a trend that is rapidly evolving.  DaaS combines elements of SaaS and SOA and it is the force behind on-line data mashups.  SaaS tends towards the visual, while DaaS focuses more on the non-visual.

While SaaS [...]

February 26th, 2007 | Category: Enterprise Content Management, SOA, Security, Web 2.0 | Leave a comment
 
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