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Enterprise Software: Identified by Gartner as Fastest Growing IT Segment

By Dick Weisinger

At the halfway point for 2014, Gartner released their data and forecast for IT spending.  We’re currently on track to see levels as high as $3.7 trillion spent on global IT this year, that’s an increase of about 2.1 percent…

Open Data: US Government Reports Progress, but Much More is Needed

By Dick Weisinger

McKinsey and Company estimates that the value of Open Data when considered globally could top $3 trillion. In order to check the progress of Open Data within the US, the US Federal Government created an Open Government Dashboard.  This was done following…

Security and the Cloud: Moving Data to the Cloud Multiplies the Cost of Security Breaches

By Dick Weisinger

The cost of a security breach in a cloud apps is generally significantly more expensive to remedy compared to a similar app running on-premise — as much as three times more expensive, based on a study by the Ponemon Institute…

Cloud Computing: The Containerization of Apps

By Dick Weisinger

Docker, the ‘Linux Container Engine’, is open-source Linux technology that can package all components needed by an application into a single container which can then be easily moved between cloud platforms, virtual machines, or physical bare-metal servers.  Docker allows software…

Data Storage: Do You Know Where to Find Your Most Sensitive Data?

By Dick Weisinger

Do you know where your data is?  Not just any data, but the most sensitive and critical data that your company depends on?  In a global survey of IT professionals, only 16 percent said that they could locate that information.…