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Future Data Centers: Smaller and Embedded in Neighborhoods

By Dick Weisinger

What will Data Centers look like 10 years from now?  Emerson Network Power recently surveyed Data Center professionals to get an idea about how they think that their industry will change. Steve Hassell, President, Data Center Solutions at Emerson, summarized…

Cloud Computing: Adoption Occurring at a Slower Pace than Expected

By Dick Weisinger

While cloud technology is clearly seeing wide acceptance and adoption, the rate of that adoption isn’t occurring as quickly as originally thought.  A recent study by Bitglass surveyed more than 81,000 different companies about their usage of cloud technologies. The…

Internet of Things(IoT): Vendors Attempt to Rename and Change the Spin

By Dick Weisinger

The Internet of Things(IoT) — it’s the envisioned world where everything from electric toothbrushes to hydro-electric power plants will be plugged into the internet, interconnected, monitorable and controllable, hopefully only by those with the appropriate security privileges.  Increasingly the future…

Cloud Computing and Security: More than Half of Sensitive Data Stored in the Cloud goes Unencrypted

By Dick Weisinger

The storage of sensitive data in the cloud is something that’s inevitable, say a majority of 4000 IT professionals.  More than half of those organizations actually are already using the cloud to store some amount of sensitive or confidential data.…

Business Intelligence: Slow Growth But 2014 may be Tipping Point

By Dick Weisinger

The Business Intelligence and analytics software market grew 8 percent from $13.3 billion in 2012 to $14.4 billion in 2013, according to Gartner Research.  While 8 percent seems like health growth, many had expected the market, especially because of the…