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…

Knowing When to Shred

Whatever happened to the promise of a paperless world? Remember that? Computers, everyone said, would replace paper thereby preventing injury to forests and fingers alike. But, like flying cars, digital-only documents seem to be more fantasy than futuristic since companies continue to cling to paper documents even after carefully storing digitalized doppelgangers. There is only…

Is IT Ready for Video in the Enterprise?

PALO ALTO, Calif.– Video can be a useful tool in the enterprise, but companies need guidelines, training systems and the right infrastructure to use it effectively, said a panel of IT vendors here at the AlwaysOn OnDemand conference this week at Hewlett-Packard’s headquarters. “Think about who is going to produce the video and who you…