Category Archives: Data Management

Optimizing Data Access — Know your Hardware

The Library of Congress has a lot of information — hundreds of millions of pages of books and manuscripts. But no one has ever suggested that we store all of that information in a single, billion-page book. Instead, individual books …   read more …

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Data Volumes

Despite what they say, size does matter. Successful data management is all about finding the proper tools and formats for dealing with your data.  There is no one-size-fits-all solution.  And the very first question you should be asking yourself is: …   read more …

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Data Management Questionnaire

Sometimes merely filling out a questionnaire can cause you to think about problems in a new way.  When asked to answer a question that has never occurred to you before, you may find yourself reevaluating some of your core assumptions …   read more …

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Two Minutes with Vivek Kundra

We recently had the privilege of attending Vivek Kundra’s talk when he spoke at the University of Washington.  We found his assessment of federal government information technology issues to be refreshingly frank.  After his talk we had a chance to …   read more …

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