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Technology: IT Outsourcers Squeezed by Fierce Competition and Failure to Adapt to Customer Needs

By Dick Weisinger

In this age of the cloud, global IT sourcing, and IT-savvy business managers, IT service companies are getting squeezed from all sides.  Gartner focused on the challenges of one segment of the IT services industry in a recent study, infrastructure…

Big Data: Hadoop Ranks on Top, but its many Challenges Make it Vulnerable

By Dick Weisinger

Hadoop started as a tool intended to jump-start Yahoo’s search engine.  And over the course of the last ten years, Hadoop has morphed into a general-purpose computing platform, in fact, the go-to platform for all things related to Big Data.…

Big Data: Making the Federal Government More Efficient

By Dick Weisinger

The application of Big Data to improve the workings of the federal government could potentially reduce spending by as much as 10 percent, say 83 percent of federal IT managers in a survey taken by TechAmerica and sponsored by SAP.…

Security: Organizations Look to Security Professionals to Stem Breaches

By Dick Weisinger

If you’re looking for a solid career path, the role of cyber security professional is one worth checking out. News of data breaches both in government and businesses have become nearly daily headline stories.  A report from the Open Security…

Health Care: Big Health Care IT vendors benefit from Stimulus Dollars

By Dick Weisinger

In 2005, RAND researchers estimated that replacing paper records with digital ones for health care would result in savings exceeding $80 billion over the course of a decade.  Similar studies in the same time period concluded that there were additional…