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Yearly Archives: 2011

Cloud Computing: Uncovering the Hidden Costs of the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud Computing can offer significant advantages over traditional on-premise computing, but those benefits don’t always come as cheaply as they might appear on the surface. Some ‘hidden’ or unanticipated cloud computing costs include the following: Bandwidth costs and limitations –…

Document Security: Managed File Transfers Enhance Standard FTP

By Dick Weisinger

A survey by HubSpan finds that FTP is still a widely used tool for exchanging file data at more than 77 percent of companies, and of those that don’t currently use it, 40 percent say they’d like to set up…

Enterprise Search: After a Decade, Still Continues to Disappoint and Frustrate Users

By Dick Weisinger

Despite advances in technology, Enterprise Search continues to dissatisfy a majority or a near-majority of users.  Three years ago an AIIM study found that 49 percent of users thought that enterprise search was too cumbersome and slow to be of…

Cloud Computing: Fear of Change Makes Many Organizations Hesitant

By Dick Weisinger

At a recent Gartner summit in Sydney, Massimo Pezzini, Gartner Fellow and vice president, commented that by “2016, over 50 per cent of all business application independent software providers (ISVs) would be pure software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers.”  It’s comments like this…

Open Source: Enterprises Prefer Open Source

By Dick Weisinger

In another sign that use of Open Source software in organizations is now mainstream, FuseSource, an open source integration and messaging solutions company, released the results of a survey that attempts to profile the usage of Open Source within the…