Big Data or Drown – Managing and Tiering Content

by Rob Vandenberg of Lingotek For today’s companies, information overload is a fact of life. By all indications, the problem is only going to get worse. The 2011 IDC Digital Universe study estimated that by 2020, the amount of data in the world will grow 50-fold from its 2010 levels of 1.8 trillion gigabytes. The…

SharePoint Dinged for Lack of Management Controls

A new survey from an important content management association finds that, although Microsoft’s SharePoint collaboration and document sharing server is racking up sales, many deployments lack thorough planning. The report, from the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), queried some 624 of its members regarding deployment of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) SharePoint Server. “A recent…