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The Problem Posed By Having Too Much Data

February 6, 2014 by drjim

A recent survey by the magazine InformationWeek revealed that roughly half of the companies out there are managing between 1TB and 99TB of company data. This amount of data is not getting any smaller and in fact is growing rapidly. For IT managers who are in charge of projects that make use of this valuable … Read more

IT Managers Start To Deal With The Problem Of Big Data Backup

July 18, 2013 by drjim

The era of big data has arrived. IT Managers everywhere are swimming in a sea of data and only now are they starting to get the tools, the IT manager skills, and the IT manager training that will allow them to make sense of what they have. It turns out that there is another problem … Read more

3 Questions That Every IT Manager Should Be Asking About Clouds

December 1, 2011 by drjim

I love clouds, you love clouds, we all love clouds. It seems like everyone in IT is talking about cloud computing and how it’s the next big thing. Look, I think that there’s a lot of good things about cloud computing, but I’m not convinced that it’s the right solution for everyone. This brings up … Read more