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Yearly Archives: 2017

Technology: IDC and Gartner Forecast Record Levels for IT Spending in 2017

By Dick Weisinger

As industries digitize their operations, IT benefits by increased spending. Two new recent reports forecast IT funding to hit record spending highs in 2017. IDC predicts IT spending to exceed $2.1 trillion this year which will be 4.5 percent higher…

Cloud Computing: What’s Wrong with SaaS ??

By Dick Weisinger

Given the massive shift to cloud computing and SaaS over the last five years, one can only conclude that the SaaS model must be doing something right.  Cost and Flexibility are the two benefits of SaaS most commonly cited.  But…

Cyberwarfare: An Outage of a Major Cloud Service Provider Due to Cyberattacks Could be as Damaging as Hurricane Katrina

By Dick Weisinger

Hacking and cyberattacks are growing in their frequency and intensity.  They have also become increasingly more sophisticated in how they target their victims. South Carolina reports that on election day 2016 that the state’s voter registration system was hit by…

Open Source: Survey Finds that There is a Lot to Like about OS, but Some Big Gotchas, Especially with Security

By Dick Weisinger

Organizations are increasingly finding value in the use of open source, but they are slipping in their ability to effectively secure and manage the open source code that they use, according to a new study on Open Source by Black…

Cloud Security: Market for Specialized Cloud Security Tools Grows Rapidly

By Dick Weisinger

The popularity of cloud computing drove $114 billion in revenues in 2016, and the cloud’s popularity is only increasing, and at a very rapid pace.  But as applications and data migrate to the cloud, so too does the need to…