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…

Transforming Information into Knowledge, Part I

Business changes faster than technology can support. That is just a fact of a CIO’s life. But there are ways to improve organizational agility and better support the demands of an ever-changing enterprise. This three part series will discuss various strategies for better meeting business needs. In this article, I focus on how to create…

Why and When to Invest in a CMDB System

The CMDB tidal wave may seemed to have peaked about two or three years ago and left a trail of ruin and devastation in its wake. However, like many technology trends, the CMDB built up a lot of hype, then confusion, then disillusion. Missed in all of this, however, is the fundamental fact that a…

Enabling Collaboration in 7 Steps

In the global marketplace, businesses, customers and employees are publishing and consuming vast amount of information. In fact, according to the Harvard Business Review, there was more data generated in 2009 by individuals than in the entire history of mankind through 2008. People who discover, share and increase the value of that information put their…