Millennia Group is all about documents; document scanning, document workflow, document management systems, etc. That means we are always interested in what is next and the future of the document management industry.
So it was interesting to see AIIM.org having a conversation about Hadoop (a framework to support distributed data storage and analysis) and also hearing from one of our developers about Ethereum (a distributed computing model for digital currency and digital “smart contracts”). Both of these models definitely look to the future.
It was intentional that the word “distributed” is used to describe both models. In fact, the distribution of data is part of the Cloud movement and it has some clear advantages like lower cost and higher security. Most companies want lower cost and more secure applications. Beyond the concept of distributed data, it is more difficult…