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Cloud Computing: Businesses Fret Over Weak Cloud SLAs

By Dick Weisinger

Before jumping into Cloud computing, many customers worry about the risk of losing control of their data and applications once they move to the cloud vendor.  It seems like there might be good reason to worry. Lydia Leong, Vice President…

Cloud Computing: Vendors Battle for Claim to the Strategic 1 percent — PaaS

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud computing is rapidly being adopted by companies of all sizes.  Gartner estimates that the overall global cloud services market in 2012 to be $109 billion.  A very small piece, but rapidly growing, part of this market is Platform as…

Technology: Mainframes and Innovation — Two Concepts that don't need to be Mutually Exclusive

By Dick Weisinger

Mainframes?  Other than for competitions between nations and multinationals to see who can build the fastest super-computer in the world, do people really still use “big iron” mainframes?  IBM has been trying to convince people for years that the death…

Cloud Computing: Cloud Computing Workload Volumes Expected to Surpass Traditional Ones in Two Years

By Dick Weisinger

The growth in the flow of data across networks has been phenomenal. Cisco predicts that zettabyte threshold will be crossed in 2016 with 1.3 zettabytes of network traffic data flowing across the Internet.  But the data flowing back and forth…

Project Management: The Four Habits of High Achieving Businesses

By Dick Weisinger

The Hackett Group recently produced an eye-opening report on the effectiveness of Project Management Office (PMO) as applied to IT.  The report found that rather than improve project delivery effectiveness, the use of PMOs often had just the reverse effect, only making…