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Cloud vs. Cloud
There seems to be cloud computing associations appearing on a daily basis. The two most recent are the Open Data Center Alliance and the Asian Cloud Computing Association. One columnist looks at what they have in common and most importantly, what they don’t.
Read MoreExpanding Cloud Computing Strategy
IBM is leading a joint research initiative of 15 European partners to develop a smart cloud storage architecture, which will improve the global delivery of rich data and storage services across boundaries of countries and vendors. Tackling the major challenges facing today’s storage clouds, the consortium partners include standards bodies, media companies, telecommunications companies, healthcare companies, academic institutions and more.
Read MoreThe Future of Collaboration and Transparency
Unstructured information continues to grow and this provides a unique opportunity for government to reach beyond the traditional relational databases. Last week, government employees and industry experts met at the MarkLogic Government Summit to discuss best practices and the importance of implementing technology solutions capable of leveraging unstructured information.
Read MoreClean Conversion is The Goal
SeeUnity has launched the Conversion Utility for Open Text eDOCS (eDOCS), customized for transferring content, metadata, users and security, from eDOCS 6 to eDOCS 5.
Read MoreNew Product Release Addresses Content Intelligence
salsaDev SA is releasing its new product, salsaAPI 2.0, leveraging the 2nd generation of its flagship technology. salsaAPI automates text analysis and semantic indexing on large volumes of information, helping organizations reach the next level of content intelligence.
Read MoreNew Partnership Yields Secure, Efficient Electronic Recording
DocVerify has partnered with Ingeo Systems to provide expanded services to its core customers, including electronic recording applications. The company’s flagship products include E-Signatures, an innovation that has ushered signatures into the modern age, and E-Vault, a revolutionary electronic solution designed to protect documents’ authenticity and integrity, thus protecting them against forgery, fraud and theft.
Read MoreGoing Digital in Nigerian Libraries
Nigerian Former Minister of Defense, Dr Olu Agunloye is advocating for the introduction of Information Communication Technology (ICT) into the library system in the nation education sector. The fears of loss of jobs by librarians due to the digital library was allayed by Dr. Agunloye at the 30th Annual Seminar of the Nigerian Library Association (cataloguing, classification and indexing section) in Akure.
Read MoreNew Release Enhances Treatment of Metadata
The PASS Summit 2010 was the location for expressor software to release version 3.0 of its affordable, enterprise-class data integration platform. expressor 3.0 is a comprehensive design, development and deployment platform available in three editions and tailored to support the full range of data integration applications, from tactical data migrations to large enterprise data warehouses and strategic, predictive analytics.
Read MoreMaking Australian Government Information Findable
The final version of data.australia.gov dataset repository is soon to be released and the result could be streamlined information. The new repository will replace the beta version first released by the Gov 2.0 Taskforce in September 2009 to centrally host datasets from federal, state and territory governments where applicable.
Read MoreBook Publishing – What About the Standards?
The world of books is getting bigger and more complicated. The promise of digital is ultimate flexibility and portability, but unlike magazine or newspaper publishers, book publishers do not own their content outright. So where does that leave the pursuit of standards?
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