Agile Business Intelligence

Companies often marketing their business intelligence and data warehousing products as agile solutions, meaning that they are easy to work with and adaptable to business changes. In the project management genre, the word Agile refers to the software development methodology.

Has Tape Backup Suffered the Final Death?

By |December 28th, 2010|News, semantic, storage|Comments Off on Has Tape Backup Suffered the Final Death?

The emergence of faster and denser LTO-5 tape could spark an increase in that exact debate; even with the general consensus being that LTO-5 won't stop the ongoing trend toward disk backup and data deduplication technology.

Integration Allows New Speech Analytics

By |November 24th, 2010|Business Intelligence, indexing, News, Standards, storage|Comments Off on Integration Allows New Speech Analytics

Nexidia has integrated Nexidia Capture and Nexidia Scan into Cisco's new media capture platform. Cisco's media capture platform is an open-standards, network-based solution that provides recording, playback, live streaming, and storage of media, including audio and video, with rich metadata to facilitate easy use. This integration allows Cisco customers the ability to create real-time speech alerting applications and the power to perform speech analytics with archived audio.

Defining and Contrasting Cloud vs. Host

By |September 30th, 2010|News, semantic, storage|1 Comment

Cloud computing, though relatively new, is becoming common on the tongues of most technological gurus. But what is “cloud” computing, and how does it differ from “hosted?” The blog Enterprise Irregulars attempts to explain this sometimes nebulous topic (pun totally intended).