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Yearly Archives: 2015

SaaS: Five Ways to Lose Your Data

By Dick Weisinger

While security is typically the biggest worry users have about using cloud services, a related worry is data loss.  In 2013, the Aberdeen Group reported that nearly a third of companies that have used SaaS services in the cloud have lost…

Resilient Software Design: Where Will Your App be in Ten Years?

By Dick Weisinger

Technology changes.  Very quickly.  Can your software keep up? Will that modern streamlined app you created today still be as cool next year?  Probably not.  Technology is continually changing in a way that in turn causes you to see things…

IT Talent: Insight into Technology Among Executives is Low

By Dick Weisinger

While IT technology is regularly transforming and changing rapidly, it’s increasingly difficult for the IT workforce to keep pace with the changes in technology.  In particular, there is increasing demand for workers with skillsets and knowledge related to technologies like…

Microservices: Enabled by the Cloud, Fast Networks, Containers, and REST/JSON Simplicity

By Dick Weisinger

Microservices are lightweight fine-grained services that can be deployed with middleware or brokers.  The idea behind the approach has been around for some time, but a convergence of technologies, like the cloud, containers and REST/JSON services is making the approach…

SaaS and Cloud Computing: Trusting Even Your Mission-Critical Information to the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner recently released a study on SaaS that describes a dichotomy of how businesses approach the technology.  One set of businesses are avoiding SaaS because they’re worried about losing control of critical or sensitive information.  But, most organizations that have…