November 21, 2012 2:51 PM
Posted by: Sharon Fisher
Acquisitions are hard.
HP announced this week that it was being forced to write off $8.8 billion of the $9.7 billion cost of its year-old acquisition of Autonomy.
Let...
November 15, 2012 8:10 PM
Posted by: Sharon Fisher
big data,
data storage,
intel,
seagateWhen I first started this blog almost two years ago, I called it "yottabytes" because that was the term commonly accepted for the biggest size of storage (1000^8, or a 10 followed by 24 zeroes, compared with, say, 1000^4 for a terabyte). But as people are actually starting to refer to petabytes...
November 8, 2012 3:01 PM
Posted by: Sharon Fisher
computer assisted review,
e-discovery,
predictive coding,
technology assisted reviewWhen one thinks of E-discovery pioneers, one doesn't tend to think of Hooters. But a recent legal case with the, ahem, female-oriented restaurant has ramifications for the E-discovery industry, specifically in the area of predictive...
November 1, 2012 10:00 AM
Posted by: Sharon Fisher
amazon,
cloud,
disaster recoveryThough there have been a number of data center outages associated with the Sandy megastorm, and it's not over yet, what may be most surprising is how little disruption it actually caused -- particularly in comparison to the