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The Circular Economy: Destruction of the Take-Make-Dispose Consumer Mentality

By Dick Weisinger

Increasingly governments and businesses are embracing the idea of a ‘circular economy‘.  The idea is that by recycling materials and energy from discarded products, we can generate generations of  goods and products.  It’s the idea of eliminating wastes and landfill.…

Hybrid File Sharing: Blending Public and On-Premise Storage Options

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses have relied on simple network file share drives for years.  Today, cloud file sharing services like Box and DropBox are becoming popular in the consumer world and to some extent within businesses. Terri McClure, senior analyst at ESG, said…

Enterprise Software: On-Premise ERP Systems to be Obsoleted by Cloud Solutions

By Dick Weisinger

On-premise highly-customized ERP systems are quickly being obsoleted by more agile and highly configurable cloud-based solutions.  30 percent of service-centric companies are expected to have moved their ERP applications to the cloud by 2017, predicts Gartner in a new report…

Cloud Computing: US Cloud Providers Lose Business from NSA Surveillance Concerns

By Dick Weisinger

A quarter of small businesses in the UK and Canada have decided to move their data out of US-based cloud services as a result of revelations that the US National Security Agency (NSA) is monitoring the data managed by those…

Mobile and Web Computing: Responsive Web Design

By Dick Weisinger

Increasingly businesses are moving to the use of Responsive Web Design (RWD or RD — just Responsive Design) in the rollout of their mobile and traditional web sites.  For example, RWD sites have been rolled out by the Boston Globe,  the…