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BYOD and Security: Balancing the Risks and Rewards

By Dick Weisinger

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is a policy that increasingly businesses are finding that they need to support, but one that comes with challenge and risk.  Gartner calls Mobile Device Diversity and Management as one of the Top 10 Strategic Technology…

Big Data Analytics: Weighing Privacy and Ethical Concerns

By Dick Weisinger

It’s not only users that are worried about their privacy and how their electronic data is being used by businesses.  A survey of statisticians found that 91 percent said that consumers had good reason to be worried.  Further, 85 percent…

Cloud Computing: The Rise of the Mega Datacenter

By Dick Weisinger

Data centers as we know them are rapidly changing and, in many cases, and will actually start to disappear.  IDC is predicting that the total number of data centers will peak in 2017 at 8.6 million.  After that, even though…

Cloud Computing: What’s the Real Cost of the Cloud?

By Dick Weisinger

451 Research recently set off on the task to try to determine the real costs involved in operating an application in the cloud.  As part of this process, 451 created a price index that measures all costs involved in operating…

Internet of Things (IoT): Billions of Things, Trillions of Dollars

By Dick Weisinger

By 2020 expect there to be a lot of devices connected to the internet — with the emphasis here on ‘a lot’.  Analysts and businesses can’t quite decide, but the number will be very big. Last year, Gartner predicted by 2020 there…