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Yearly Archives: 2015

CyberSecurity: If You’ve Been Hacked, You’ve Got Company

By Dick Weisinger

Half of Internet users have run afoul with some kind of security issue over the last year. eMarketer, a Marketing Research company, recently pulled together some interesting statistics about how vulnerable we all are when using the Internet to conduct…

Internet of Things: Businesses Invest Heavily in Machine To Machine (M2M) Communication

By Dick Weisinger

The Internet of Things (IoT) encompasses a broad set of technologies.  One facet of IoT is Machine to Machine (M2M), a technology that allows machines to connect to and to exchange data among themselves.  A recent Vodafone survey of M2M technology…

Cloud Storage Gateways: Linking to Data in the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

When it comes to data storage, most companies would prefer to keep their data on-premise under lock and key.  A report by CTERA Networks, the 2015 Enterprise Cloud Storage Survey found that nearly three quarters of enterprises prefer to store their data with a…

Data Management: Data Silos Never Vanish

By Dick Weisinger

Data silos have been the “scourge of enterprises” for years.  The root of the problem are applications that are isolated and manage their own data without communicating with other applications.  Silo-ed information, while often valuable and even vital, often goes unanalyzed…

Big Data: Expected to Grow By A Factor of Six Before 2019

By Dick Weisinger

The Big Data market will grow by 50 percent or more over the next four years, says market analyst group Ovum.  At that rate, the market will grow by a factor of six by 2019.  The growth of Big Data…