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Security: Despite Tight Budgets, Spending on Security Continues to Grow

By Dick Weisinger

The global security market is expected to reach $67.2 billion in 2013, a jump of 8.7 percent from 2012.  By 2016, the size should reach $86 billion. Businesses are spending on average 5 percent of their total IT budgets on…

Technology: One Third of Adults now Use Tablets

By Dick Weisinger

34 percent of adults now say that they own a tablet computer like an Apple iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Google Nexus or Kindle Fire, according to the Pew Research Center. Kathryn Zickuhr, a research analyst for Pew, said that “with smartphones,…

Security: Human Error and Glitches Result in Costly Data Breaches

By Dick Weisinger

Despite the worry of hackers and cyber-espionage, most data breaches are the result of human mistakes, negligence or unexpected system glitches.  Larry Ponemon said that “eight years of research on data breach costs has shown employee behavior to be one…

Innovation: Innovation by Tweaking may not be 'Low Risk'

By Dick Weisinger

93 percent of organization agree that innovation is a key to the future of their companies.  The problem is that innovation isn’t easy.  A survey by Accenture found that only 18 percent of businesses following a strategy of innovation were…

Storage: Rampant Data Duplication Clogs Enterprise Storage Media

By Dick Weisinger

‘Copy Data’ — the storage of duplicated data for safekeeping —  may be the reason behind 85 percent of all hardware purchases that were made in 2012.  That’s the conclusion of a report by IDC. The report finds that “Maintaining…