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Yearly Archives: 2015

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…

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…