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Yearly Archives: 2011

Cloud Computing: A Fast Ticket to Data Silo Sprawl (DSS)?

By Dick Weisinger

A recent survey from ScienceLogic found that a majority of IT executives expect that cloud computing will reduce the number of their company data silos.  Only 17 percent worried that cloud computing will actually increase the number of islands of…

Green IT and Data Centers: Going Global in Acceptance

By Dick Weisinger

Increasingly C-level executives are saying that the Green IT movement has gotten their attention and it now ranks high among business priorities. Green IT, or Green Computing, refers to environmentally sustainable computing; it has broad goals of reducing the use…

Cloud Storage: Storing Unstructured Data in the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

Unstructured data is growing at an unprecedented rate, and increasingly organizations are looking to cloud-based storage as an alternative for managing their unstructured data  eWeek’s Chris Preimesberger recently summarized the benefits and tips for cloud-based storage solutions. Cloud Storage Benefits Cloud…

BPM: Trend Towards Many More Projects, but Smaller and More Focused

By Dick Weisinger

The Business Process Management (BPM) software sector is alive and well.  But there are significant differences between the BPM market of today and the one of even just five years ago. Technologies like cloud computing and SaaS have changed people’s…

Social Media and Security: Mistakes that Can Be Costly

By Dick Weisinger

Companies are increasingly adopting social strategies, particularly for marketing their companies and brand and connecting with customers.  A recent study by Regus found that 74 percent of companies internationally say that they are using Social Media as part of their…