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Security: Securing Application Run Time Engines to Thwart Attacks

By Dick Weisinger

Today enterprise security  is heavily focused on protecting data by preventing intrusion.  A Gartner “Maverick Research” report finds that 23 times the effort and resources are being spent on perimeter security compared to what’s being spent on application security. Joseph…

Crowdsourcing: Harnessing the Strength of the Masses

By Dick Weisinger

The idea behind crowdsourcing is that collectively a group can produce information and ideas that rival what could be created by an expert, and can often do it more quickly and significantly more cheaply than what could be done by…

Enterprise Mobile App Development: Complexity and a Skills Gap are Roadblocking App Development

By Dick Weisinger

The mobile enterprise business application market is expected to reach $61 billion by 2018, says Strategy Analytics.  In 2013, 900,000 mobile app developers were targeting the enterprise app market, and a survey by  VisionMobile found that only 15 percent of app developers are…

Patent Trolls: Change in Law Combats Against Patent Intimidation

By Dick Weisinger

The 26-member panel of federal judges recently ruled that a civil procedure law known as Rule 84 be eliminated.  The law originally was intended to help small patent holders more easily bring lawsuits against patent infringements, but which became a…

Big Data/Hadoop: Death to the Data Warehouse?

By Dick Weisinger

There’s a war on now between traditional enterprise data warehousing (EDW) versus Big Data analytics, particularly tools powered by Hadoop.  Data warehousing is losing out as businesses become overwhelmed with data.  Pulling all data into a single monolithic database and…