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Yearly Archives: 2011

Information Overload: The Data Management Challenge

By Dick Weisinger

Organizations are increasingly finding data management to be one of their major pain points.  InfoRiskAwareness, a consortium of companies primarily based in the UK and involved with the problems of data and information management (Open Text and Recommind being two…

Collaboration: Little Value Unless it can Address Solving a Business Problem

By Dick Weisinger

Too much emphasis on the technology  and not enough on how to solve business problems is often the reason why a technology will fail.  Gartner says that’s exactly what’s been happening with Collaboration technologies.  Carol Rozwell, vice President at Gartner…

Cloud Computing: Cloud Governance Out of Control

By Dick Weisinger

There’s another survey out on cloud computing, this time by Avenade, a technology services company.  The results duplicate the results of a number of other similar surveys that have recently been made, but one result is worth looking into.  The…

Data Centers: Virtualization Requires Security Plans to be Rethought

By Dick Weisinger

Security plans that worked well with traditional networking and non-virtualized servers don’t necessarily transfer directly to the world of cloud computing and virtualization.  Virtualization requires that security measures be rethought. Virtualization removes the one-to-one mapping between the physical device and…

Social Media: Small Companies Jump on Board

By Dick Weisinger

Small Businesses have jumped into Social Media in a big way.   As many as 69 percent of small business have adopted some form of Social Media, where the definition of Social Media includes Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or blogging.  Of…