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Big Data Analytics: The Effect of Geography on Adoption

By Dick Weisinger

Attitudes about technology, like many things, are often heavily influenced by geography and culture.  A survey by Teradata found, for example, that while adoption rates in the UK for Big Data have led the rates for adoption across Europe, the…

Information Security: Businesses Increasingly Adopt Cloud-Based Security

By Dick Weisinger

Information security spending is expected to reach $71 billion in 2014, an increase of of nearly 8 percent, predicts Gartner. Much of the drive in spending can be attributed to new security technologies for protecting mobile, the cloud, and social.…

Big Data: Capital Markets Slow to Adopt Big Data

By Dick Weisinger

Recently financial firms involved in capital markets were surveyed about their uptake and use of big data by Thomson Reuters and Aite Group. The report found that: Most financial firms dealing in capital markets haven’t yet created an overall big…

Software Defined Networking (SDN): Growing at a Blistering Rate of 90 Percent Annually

By Dick Weisinger

The Software Defined Network (SDN) market will grow from just $960 million in 2014 to $8 billion by 2018, at an annual growth rate of 90 percent, predicts IDC.  That’s an incredible rate of growth. Leading vendors in this market…

Open Source: Companies Use Open Source Because of the Quality and Security

By Dick Weisinger

Two recent reports have shed some insights about the current state of Open Source. The first of these was conducted by Linux.com and the New Stack.  The result of that report and survey identified the following projects as currently the top…