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Data Hoarding: An Expensive Habit Most Businesses Can't Shake

By Dick Weisinger

With all the hype around Big Data and the ease with which data can now be captured and stored, it’s no wonder that data hording is becoming a problem for companies.  Data hoarding is the excessive storing of data —…

Mobile Computing: More Than Half of Employees Practice BYOD

By Dick Weisinger

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), the practice of employees using their own personal electronic devices to access business servers and data, is a relatively new.  But Ovum research find that surprisingly, already 70 percent of employees use their own smartphone…

eDiscovery: Businesses Prefer Software to Services

By Dick Weisinger

Annual revenues in the eDiscovery software market are expected to come in at $1.7 billion in 2013 and grow to $2.9 billion by 2017.  Annual 15 percent growth is expected, driven by increasing litigation and regulatory investigations and also the…

Cloud Computing: Economies of Scale Make the Cloud Greener (or at least less Gray)

By Dick Weisinger

Is cloud computing Green?  Google says ‘yes’. Consider three businesses: a small business that runs its own servers to host email for 50 users, a medium-sized business that host its own email with 500 users, and internally hosted email for…

Big Data: Personalizing the User Experience with Anticipatory Systems

By Dick Weisinger

Increasingly companies are creating Big Data sets to analyze and scan for insights.  But while most companies are collecting a lot more data than they previously were capable, there are a few companies, like internet giants Facebook and Google, which…