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Hyland Software Inc. named an industry ‘leader’ for first time by Gartner Inc. – Cleveland Business News – Northeast Ohio and Cleveland – Crain’s Cleveland Business

November 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Hyland Software Inc. for the first time has been labeled a “leader” in its industry by business research firm Gartner Inc.

Gartner placed the Westlake document management software firm alongside larger companies such as Microsoft, Oracle and IBM in its latest evaluation of companies in the Enterprise Content Management industry.

Gartner’s 2010 “Magic Quadrant” report says Hyland Software has “strong management, a clear strategy, happy customers and a vertical-market focus.” It lauds the company’s sales growth, efforts to expand internationally and its success selling a version of its OnBase software that runs over the Internet.

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Gartner warns of emerging ‘super vendors’ – Computerworld

October 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Gartner Inc. analysts Monday warned that the tech industry is caught in a “vortex of insatiable mergers and acquisitions” that is creating a category of “super vendors” selling highly integrated offerings.

Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president of research, offered an audience at Gartner’s annual Symposium ITxpo here a particularly blunt critique of the accelerating trend by tech firms to acquire innovation though mergers and acquisitions.

“Acquiring innovation is one thing, maintaining it is completely different,” said Sondergaard. Integration across an entire stack by one IT provider “is impossible to maintain long term – users will not accept architectural mediocrity,” he added.

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N.Y. bomb plot highlights limitations of data mining – Computerworld

May 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Saturday’s botched bombing attempt in New York City provides an example of why the use of data mining approaches to uncover potential terrorism plots is a little like weather forecasting.

“You definitely need to do it, because it gives you warning of major storms,” said John Pescatore, an analyst with Gartner Inc. and a former analyst with the National Security Agency. “But it’s not going to tell you about individual raindrops.”

Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent was arrested Monday at New York’s John F. Kennedy International airport in connection with an attempt to detonate a car bomb in Times Square. Shahzad, who is scheduled to be indicted on terrorism-related charges in Manhattan today, was pulled off a plane bound for Dubai, minutes before the jetliner was scheduled to take off.

Shahzad is alleged to have parked an explosives-laden vehicle in Times Square, apparently with the intention of blowing it up. Media reports quoting the FBI and other authorities said the bomb could have caused a substantial number of deaths and injuries had it detonated.

The anti-terrorism task force was quickly able to identify Shahzad as the prime suspect in the case thanks to a series of mistakes the would-be bomber made. But for the moment, there is little to show that authorities had any inkling of either Shahzad or of his plot beforehand.

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Apple iPad, other tablets seen driving SaaS, cloud storage – Computerworld

April 12, 2010 By
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The rapid spread of tablet devices like the Apple iPad and HP Slate could prove to be a boon to providers of online storage services as users seek ubiquitous data access and synchronization across multiple mobile platforms for devices that don’t have much internal storage capacity.

The flexibility that comes with cloud storage “is not just a nice thing to have but a necessity when you’re dealing with storage-limited devices,” said Avi Greengart, a consumer devices analyst at research firm Current Analysis in Sterling, Va. “If you have a device based on flash memory, you don’t want to sync everything.”

Most of the mobile tablet devices today use NAND flash technology to offer limited memory capacity, typically 64GB or less.

For example, iPads are available with 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB flash drives. And Hewlett-Packard Co. this week disclosed that its upcoming Slate tablet computers will be available later this year with either 32GB or 64GB flash drives.

Greengart said that he expects that future tablet computers are also unlikely to offer the high storage capacities available in netbook and desktop computers, since they will be built more to consume data than to create it.

Tablet users can choose from several providers of cloud-based storage, including Box.net, Live Mesh, JungleDisk, DropBox and SkyDrive. In addition to offering online storage services, some of those vendors let users synchronize folders and files between multiple devices.

Adam Couture, an analyst at Gartner Inc., agreed that growing use of tablet devices could lead to significant growth of the storage services market.

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