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Yearly Archives: 2011

BPM: Microsoft Grabs Market Share in Enterprise Middleware Market

By Dick Weisinger

The BPM and Enterprise middleware market grew more than 9 percent last year and now represents a $16.1 billion market.  Last year’s BPM growth was a healthy improvement over 2009’s results where the market grew at just 2.2 percent.  That…

Security: Human Error is Greatest Threat

By Dick Weisinger

Sometimes we’re our own worst enemy.  Two-thirds of database breaches were found to be the result of either human error or perpetrated by a privileged user with inside access to the system.  That’s one of the results of a database…

Open Source: Companies to Spend More than Half of IT Software Budget on Free Open Source

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source is supposed to be free, so it is interesting to note that a new survey finds that by 2016, on average, 56 percent of IT budgets for software will be going towards Open Source software.  That comment is…

Cloud: Alternative Cloud Roadmaps, Getting from Here to There

By Dick Weisinger

If you’re currently investigating how your organization can begin taking advantage of using the cloud, in a new white paper Gartner outlines a framework to use that gets you started down a suitable path of investigation. Gartner generalizes five different…

Cloud Computing: How and When — A Recipe for Success

By Dick Weisinger

What does it take to move to the cloud?  That’s what many organizations are asking now, and unfortunately, there isn’t a cookbook answer for how organizations can [painlessly move there.  Answering this question is a task that National Institute of…