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Yearly Archives: 2010

Cloud Computing: Dissecting the Components of Business Intelligence in the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

To understand anything better, a good idea is to break the concept down into smaller components.  And Cloud Computing is one area that a lot of people really would like to understand better.  The Gartner Group has tried to do

SOA: The Second Coming of SOA

By Dick Weisinger

Most of 2009 was filled with bad news around SOA, from an obituary by Anne Thomas Manes in January to the doom and gloom headlines of how the recession was hitting IT budgets, particularly new initiatives like SOA.  Half a

Social Media: Is IT at war with SM?

By Dick Weisinger

IT is often portrayed as one of the villains in the clashes against employees who demand more social and web 2.0 capabilities in their enterprise software.  There are thorny issues around security, compliance, data backups, and others.  IT and executive

Security: A Kind of Insurance Policy

By Dick Weisinger

Security.   The Return on Investment for security technologies is hard to calculate.  In a sense investment in security technology is an insurance policy that helps protect against bad things that might happen.  You probably will never know what could

Cloud Computing: Obama Pushes Towards the Cloud. Government Agencies Push Back.

By Dick Weisinger

The federal government has begun a review of its data centers with the goal of consolidating the facilities to achieve greater efficiency.  The government is also trying to see if it’s possible to consolidate data center usage among multiple agencies.