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Monthly Archives: October 2015

Software Developers: Top Reasons for Software Project Failure are Poorly Written Requirements and Inadequate Funding

By Dick Weisinger

The Application Developers Alliance recently surveyed 850 developers about topics like software languages, on-going projects, and software aspirations. Here are some of the findings of the survey: Developers use multiple languages.  88 percent of developers use more than one language

Disruptive Technology: Four Forces Driving Global Large-Scale Transformation

By Dick Weisinger

The world is under stress as it undergoes rapid transformation.  Disruption and change is happening in every corner of our lives, argues three leaders from the McKinsey Global Institute in a new book: No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All

Big Data: Challenges Facing Hadoop in the Enterprise

By Dick Weisinger

Hadoop has become the de facto tool for managing Big Data.  Hadoop provides a way to organize, search, share and analyze data that was collected from many different data sources.  And scalability from a few to dozens to thousands of

Security: Alternatives to Passwords to Become More Common

By Dick Weisinger

The most commonly used passwords used to secure internet accounts include ‘123456’, ‘password’, ‘12345’, ‘12345678’, and ‘qwerty’, according to a survey by Cyber Streetwise.  An added problem is that many people use the same password for multiple accounts.  It’s no

Cloud Computing: IDC Says the “Second Wave” of the Cloud is Coming but Only 1 Percent Fully Prepared

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses no longer see the cloud as just a way to reduce costs.  They are turning to the cloud to achieve innovation, growth and disruption, according to a new report by IDC sponsored by Cisco. The report said that companies