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Health Care in the Cloud: Despite Security Concerns, Early Cloud Use Widespread

By Dick Weisinger

Health care organizations say that they already are significantly using the cloud, based on a cloud survey by HIMSS.  Although 75 percent of organizations surveyed said that they preferred using a private or hybrid cloud. 83 percent say that they…

SaaS and ECM: The Benefits of Managing Content in the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

SaaS-based Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is predicted to grow at an average annual rate of 31 percent from 2013 to 2018, based on a report by TechNavio Research.  This compares to the total global ECM market which is expected to…

Mobile Computing: Mobile Adoption High Among ‘Creatives’

By Dick Weisinger

Creative professionals and designers are adopting mobile at a rapid pace, based on a study by Adobe. David Wadhwani, senior Digital Media vice president and general manager at Adobe, said that “creatives are going mobile, and this means a sea change…

Cloud Computing: Understanding the Limits of Cloud SLAs

By Dick Weisinger

While often businesses cite security as their most common worry about cloud services, the risk of downtime is another factor that’s not spoken of nearly as much. ‘Standard cloud SLAs’ often provide little to the customer in  compensation if/when things…

Compliance: Challenges Increase but Budgets are Often Underfunded

By Dick Weisinger

Corporate ethics and compliance continue to be under close scrutiny across all businesses.  Compliance is particularly important to businesses that operate in many different geographies and need to comply with different local and regional regulations and rules. Keeping tabs on…