The technorati has been abuzz lately about the promises of “cloud computing,” in which any and all functions within the stack — from storage to processing to messaging — are handled by third-party services on a pay-as-you-go basis. The impact on large systems and mainframe shops has been unclear, though it’s a sure bet the [...]

IBM recently released figures estimating that worldwide digital archive capacity is expected to increase at a nearly 60 percent compound annual growth rate by 2012, which means the total amount of data will have increased by 800 percent during that time. Organizations are facing a sharp increase in the amount of digital content that must [...]