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Yearly Archives: 2010

Big Data: Bringing Growth to Rural Communities

By Dick Weisinger

Prineville, Oregon; Council Bluffs, Iowa; Quincy, Washington; The Dalles, Oregon; Mahwah, New Jersey.   Are these the cities that will drive future US economic growth?  These are becoming hubs of growth around cloud computing and big data research.   While the

Private Cloud Computing: Easier Said than Done

By Dick Weisinger

The benefits of cloud computing include flexibility and cost savings.  Scalability of resources is really the key to its popularity of the cloud.  The traditional approach to infrastructure divvies up servers and processing power based on the applications running in

SaaS: Even in the Long Term SaaS is More Competitive

By Dick Weisinger

When looking at the costs of a software solution deployed via SaaS versus one deployed via as a traditional on-site implementation, the cost benefits of SaaS are clear. There is no software license fee with SaaS. There’s no hardware costs

Business Intelligence: Assisted by Enterprise Search for Unified Information Access

By Dick Weisinger

Business Intelligence (BI) is increasingly being used by businesses for synthesizing data culled from many company databases to create reports and dashboards that can identify patterns and trends.  BI has had its share of success, but it sometimes isn’t able

Cloud Computing: Cloud Services see Fast Track Growth

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner is forecasting a 16.9 percent growth of revenues generated from global cloud services this year compared to 2009 revenues.  The expected 2010 global cloud service revenue is $68.3 billion.  The Gartner projection is to reach $148.8 billion in 2014.