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Yearly Archives: 2016

Data Lakes: Recipe for Big Data Success or Roadblock to Data Analysis?

By Dick Weisinger

The Data Lakes Market is expected to grow from $2.53 billion to $8.81 billion over the next five years, at an average yearly growth rate of more than 28 percent, according to an estimate by analyst firm MarketsandMarkets.  The analysis breaks…

Innersourcing: Enterprises’ Closed Version of Open Source

By Dick Weisinger

Inner source.  It’s not something related to zen or meditation.  It’s a term coined by Tim O’Reilly that describes how enterprises are applying open source practices to enterprise software development. Business development teams are becoming more collaborative, shipping early before software…

Open Source: Businesses Readily Adopt Open Source but Often Don’t Track its Use or Patch Vulnerabilities

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source software permeates infrastructure and software development projects almost everywhere.  A survey by Black Duck and North Bridge found that 65 percent of organizations now say that they’re using open source as part of their development and 55 percent…

Enterprise Apps: Businesses Turn to Low-Code Development

By Dick Weisinger

The application development market is expected to reach $15.4 billion by 2020, according to a report by Forrester.  Forrester identifies five market segments of the app development market: general-purpose platforms, and platforms for process, database, request handling and mobile applications. As…

CyberSecurity: Three Keys for Securing Corporate Data

By Dick Weisinger

Securing your data takes effort, time and dollars, but the alternative can be extremely costly.  A study from Ponemon estimates that losses resulting from the recovery of a single data breach are now averaging $4 million. There are three main…