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Monthly Archives: October 2015

Federal Cloud Computing: Mixed Reviews on CloudFirst Progress – Security Concerns are a Road Block

By Dick Weisinger

Last year the US Federal government spent nearly $2 billion on cloud computing according to IDC.  The Federal government is attempting to implement a CloudFirst policy which it says that “our responsibility in government is to achieve the significant cost, agility and innovation

Internet Of Things: The Danger of Ignoring the Problem of RF Pollution

By Dick Weisinger

Radio-frequency (RF) noise is around us everywhere.  The sources of RF pollution come from things like electric motors,  digital appliances, and industrial machinery.  All these machines and devices are sending out signals across a range of frequencies which can interfere with other

Cloud Computing: We’re All Creating Our Own Personal Cloud Blend Says Gartner

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud computing comes in a variety of flavors.  There’s public, private, and hybrid.  But now, some are talking about the “Personal Cloud“.  It’s a term that Gartner and some analysts are using to describe cloud data and services that are accessible

Big Data: Senior-Level Sponsorship Critical for Data Project Successes

By Dick Weisinger

Ninety percent of businesses have high to medium levels of investment in Big Data with a third calling their investment “very significant”, according to a report from Forbes/McKinsey and sponsored by Teradata of 316 C-level executives of $500+ million companies. The

Cloud Computing: ZeroStack Takes Small Enterprises From Zero to Their Own Private Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

Setting up a private cloud within a small and medium sized company (50 to 1000 users) can be challenging and time-consuming.  And that’s exactly the problem that the ZeroStack private-cloud-enabling solution addresses. The ZeroStack solution includes a 2U appliance that