Quest Previews Recovery Manager At SharePoint Conference
Quest Software, Inc. will preview in live demonstrations, an advanced version of Quest Recovery Manager for SharePoint, complete with disaster recovery at the SharePoint Technology Conference through Oct. 22.
Read MoreIt’s All Semantics
Mondeca, provider of semantic technologies, is launching two software products that improve the way enterprises manage content annotation and rich knowledge structures, such as ontologies, thesauri, taxonomies, terminologies, metadata repositories, knowledge bases, and Linked Open Data. Whew, that was a mouthful.
Read MoreGoogle’s Latest Release Promises Higher Employee Productivity
Google has unveiled version 6.8 of the new Google Search Appliance (GSA) for enterprises. This latest release offers customizable search functionality for an intranet or web site.
Read MoreComputers Learning Like Humans
Scientists are trying to find a new way for computers to learn over time and start analyzing information in more human-like ways. A little scary, but sounds a lot like semantic technology to me.
Read MoreMortgage Disaster Spurs New Use of Indexing Technology
The startup, Legalprise, launched to track court records, has become the popular kid on the foreclosure block due to the mortgage industry’s tragic situation. The searchable database of every foreclosure filing and every related docket entry for five states plans to expand to cover the 23 states where foreclosures are part of a judicial process. Ultimately, the company’s goal is a nationwide, searchable repository of legal documents and public records.
Read MoreAnother Use of Semantic Technology
A new partnership between Content Analyst and TCDI will incorporate Content Analyst Analytics Technology (CAAT) into TCDI’s proprietary e-discovery application suites: Discovery WorkFlow and ClarVergence.
Read MoreBest Practice Committee Created to Focus on Quality
XBRL US, the national consortium for XML business reporting standards, has created a 16-member Best Practice Committee as part of XBRL US’ focus on data quality. The committee is charged with identifying and reaching agreement on best practices in the creation of XBRL-formatted financial statements from public companies reporting to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Read MoreThe Clouds Have Become Autonomous
Autonomy Corp. has announced that its private cloud computing platform has reached a new data processing milestone of 17 Petabytes of e-mail, multimedia data, and documents stored on 6,500 servers on 8 data centers spread around the world. For the record, one Petabyte is equal to 1,024 Terabytes. Petabytes are used solely to measure the storage space of multiple hard drives.
Read MoreEBSCO Enables Psychological Association to Be Searchable
EBSCO Publishing and the American Psychological Association (APA) will bring metadata, including full-text searching, for three APA resources to the EDS Base Index allowing the rich APA content to better impact searching through the EDS single search interface.
Read MoreWhere Are They Now?
Tech companies come and go. There are always tech savvy entrepreneurs with big ideas looking to fill a need in the market and investors looking to get the huge returns that only come from investing in tech startups.
But tech is risky, markets are volatile, and oftentimes what seems like a good idea is not always as good once implemented in the real world. A good example of this is the dot com boom and subsequent bust in the early 21st century. You could get funding on a back of the envelop business plan. Billions of dollars were invested in tech startups with big ideas and big dreams. Many of these dreams were shattered when investors realized they were not getting the same returns they had hoped.
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