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Achieving IT Innovation: Freeing Up Resources By Automating Existing Processes

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses are increasingly faced with the challenge of being able to keep up with managing ever more data and information. Forrester’s Rachel Dines, senior analyst, said that there are five areas of concerns that IT groups are grappling with: Need…

Enterprise Open Source: Free versus Paid Licensing Models

By Dick Weisinger

There’s many advantages to using Open Source software in the enterprise. Benefits of Open Source cited often include high quality, auditability, lower TCO, and greater flexibility. Jan-Jan van der Vyver, MD of Linux Warehouse, told ITWeb that “We are seeing…

Cloud Computing: Open Source OpenStack Gains Traction But Still is Rough Around the Edge

By Dick Weisinger

OpenStack is an Open Source infrastructure product for creating private cloud environments. It’s currently received considerable buzz in the media and is supported by vendors like HP, Red Hat, Cisco and IBM. More than 64 different companies have contributed to…

Big Data and Security: Analytics as a Way to Improve IT Security

By Dick Weisinger

On a near daily basis we learn of data breaches where sensitive data has been compromised. “We are being overwhelmed by all the opportunities for attack,” says Art Coviello, Executive Chairman of RSA. Existing intrusion protection tools have been found…

Mobile: Lower Prices Push Smartphone Sales Past 1 Billion in 2013

By Dick Weisinger

More than a billion smartphones will have been sold by the end of 2013, a nearly 40 percent jump over the number of smartphones sold in 2012.  18 percent of smartphones sold are classified  by IDC as larger-screen “phablets”.  Smartphones now…