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Yearly Archives: 2010

Cloud Computing: CIOs & CSOs Worried about Security

By Dick Weisinger

62 percent.  That’s close to two-thirds of the CIOs and CSOs from a group of 12,847 business executives that said that they had no faith or confidence in the security of the cloud.  Of the 49 percent of the executives

Social Media: Has Social Media plateaued?

By Dick Weisinger

Research results from Forrester are being spun to suggest that Social Media may be hitting a ceiling.  Forrester has categorized Social Media user types into groups, something Forrester calls Global Social Technographics: Creators Conversationalists Critics Collectors Joiners Spectators Inactives Creators

Cloud Computing: How Safe? How Much Trust?

By Dick Weisinger

The reason repeated over and again for why many organizations are reluctant to use cloud computing is the risk.  There is the risk that sensitive data will be remote to the organization, that cloud data can be easily compromised or

Cloud Computing: IT Dollars Shift To Utility Computing

By Dick Weisinger

The reliance of organizations on cloud computing continues to rise, as supported by a new survey by Gartner Inc.  The global survey found that a little more than ten percent of all spending on external service providers (ESPs) is going

SharePoint: It's Everywhere, but What to Make of It

By Dick Weisinger

Since May, SharePoint 2010 has been out in the wild.  It has been a big business for Microsoft.  AIIM now estimates that SharePoint sales topped $1.3 billion in 2008 and is growing at an annual rate of 25 percent. Different