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Cloud Computing: Cisco to Spend $1 Billion to Build a ‘Star Alliance’ of Cloud Technology Leaders

By Dick Weisinger

Cisco has announced that it plans to spend $1 billion over the next two years in order to create a public cloud offering that they’re calling the “Intercloud“.  The new service would compete against similar services offered by Amazon Web Services…

Data Management: Not-for-Profit Organizations Lack Data Analysis Budgets

By Dick Weisinger

Non-profit organizations, generally budget-starved and short on resources, are finding it harder to make the technology investments that would let them participate in many of the new data-centric technologies.  Two-thirds of non-profits say that they have no connection between their…

Enterprise Collaboration: Businesses Seek Secure Collaboration with External Partners

By Dick Weisinger

Two types of activities are driving much of the activity around new collaboration technologies in businesses today, according to a new report from AIIM: Quick and easy content sharing between external partners Enablement of mobile-device access to content and approval…

Big Data and Federal Health Care: Data Analytics can be More Powerful than Penicillin

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data technologies are slowing being rolled out and experimented with by federal health care agencies to help improve patient care. Steve O’Keeffe, founder of MeriTalk, said that “forty-seven percent of ‘feds’ say the successful use of mHealth technologies and…

New Language of Computing Programming: Google Go

By Dick Weisinger

Google’s Go open-source programming language is slowly growing mindshare.  Some are calling it a language made for the cloud.  The Go language is being used in popular projects like Heroku’s Force.com, Packer.io, and Docker. But the Go language wasn’t originally created with aspirations for the…