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Cloud Computing: Cloud-Wary Versus the Cloud-Wise Organizations

By Dick Weisinger

A recent survey by Internap, a vendor specializing in high-performance cloud infrastructure, categorized and compared the opinions of two distinct groups: the cloud-wary, or those organizations that haven’t used cloud computing, and the cloud-wise, organizations that are using cloud computing.…

Hadoop and Big Data: Businesses Frustrated by Lack of Reliable, User-Friendly and Secure Solutions

By Dick Weisinger

While Big Data technologies made big headlines in the tech press in 2013, by the end of the year, the adoption of Big Data technologies across many businesses was only relatively modest. A survey by the SandHill group of a…

Social Media: Email still Dwarfs Social Tools in Marketing Effectiveness

By Dick Weisinger

It’s not time just yet to write off email as a key marketing tool in favor of newer social media options.  A recent study by management consultants McKinsey & Company found that email is actually 40 times more effective in generating…

Predictive Metrics: The Edge that Can Boost Business Profits by 20%

By Dick Weisinger

Less than half of business and IT leaders say that they don’t have access to the metrics that would help them understand their businesses, according to a report by Gartner.  71 percent say that they know which key performance indicators…

Storage: Engineering Storage Media to last for Millenium

By Dick Weisinger

The history of humans spans backwards in time only a few thousand years and our records about how human ancestors lived beyond more than a few hundred years ago is relatively scant.  While we have an increasingly wide variety of…