Taxodiary – Data

Semantic Technology Company Sees Germany as Prime Market

By Melody Smith|November 3rd, 2011|News, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Technology Company Sees Germany as Prime Market

Semantic Web and Big Data Technology company, PolarLake, has opened a new office in Frankfurt, Germany. Known for addressing the challenges of financial and reference data management, they apparently see the German market ripe for development.

Back To School

By Melody Smith|October 31st, 2011|News, reference, semantic|Comments Off on Back To School

If you are one of those people who love to learn something new all the time or maybe someone who enjoys going to school as an adult professional, this might be right up your alley. Free university classes - yes, I said free. From Stanford School of Engineering, an experiment in distributed education that offers "Machine Learning" free and online to students worldwide during the fall of 2011.

EBSCO Acquires Vast Database

By Melody Smith|October 12th, 2011|indexing, News|Comments Off on EBSCO Acquires Vast Database

EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has acquired the database, Ergonomics Abstracts™. The database focuses on ergonomics and human factors and provides indexing for eBooks, journal articles and reference works in a variety of fields that will be of value to academic libraries and research institutes.

Big is Not So New

By Melody Smith|September 1st, 2011|metadata, News, storage|Comments Off on Big is Not So New

There has been lots of talk lately about big data and how we will handle it, as though it was a new problem. Given, data is being produced faster than ever before in history. However, in the retail world, transaction analysis and POS data is not new. The word we are looking for is diverse. It isn’t just numeric data anymore; it is text based and image based.

Big Data – What’s In It For Me?

By Melody Smith|August 18th, 2011|metadata, News, storage|Comments Off on Big Data – What’s In It For Me?

There has been a lot of talk lately about big data and it can be confusing because everyone’s definition of big data differs. No one is comparing apples to apples or oranges to oranges. How do you define big data?

Metalogix Gets Microsoft’s Nod

By Melody Smith|August 8th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Metalogix Gets Microsoft’s Nod

Metalogix Software has been working with Microsoft in providing content lifecycle management (CLM) solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange®, and legacy environments since 2001. In recognition of that solid work and service, Microsoft recently made Metalogix a member of Microsoft Partner Network with a Gold Independent Software Vendor/Software competency.

Attivio Addresses Extreme Data

By Melody Smith|August 3rd, 2011|metadata, News, ontology|Comments Off on Attivio Addresses Extreme Data

Attivio announced new modules for its Active Intelligence Engine (AIE) that offer better support for big data.

Archiving Digital Requires Standards

By Melody Smith|July 29th, 2011|metadata, News, storage|Comments Off on Archiving Digital Requires Standards

Every business is dealing with data storage issues, but in the world of media and entertainment, the demise of the videotape and the prevalence of digital creates a perfect storm of data volume. Without the tangible backup tape, archiving digital data carries more weight than ever before. The urgent need for more secure archives than a mix of external hard drives, cloud storage and proprietary data tapes is here.

Archiving and Backup – Not the Same Thing

By Melody Smith|July 29th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Archiving and Backup – Not the Same Thing

Atempo has announced the findings of a new industry analyst research report - Archive Agility: Building Business Resilience Through Active Archiving - that identifies the best technologies and operational processes for successful active archiving align with the key differentiators of Atempo Digital Archive.

The Age of Big Cloud Data

By Melody Smith|July 28th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on The Age of Big Cloud Data

There is yet another acronym on the horizon. ABCD – The Age of Big Cloud Data. With the Web accelerating the digitization of all content (digital information was 1% of all information in 1986 but 95% today) and the creation of new digital content (from 4.5 billion gigabytes in 2000 to 1227 billion gigabytes in 2010), there has to be room in the clouds for all this data to transition from physical to virtual.