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Technology: The Four Elements of the Technology Nexus

By Dick Weisinger

Last Thursday, we talked about Gartner’s predictions for Big Data made at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo, but Peter Sondergaard‘s keynote touched on many more technologies than Big Data.  Sondergaard talked about a “nexus of forces” — cloud, mobile, social, and  big data…

Technology: A Virtual Look at Google's Data Centers

By Dick Weisinger

There are 12 Google data centers, eight in operation in the US, Finland and Belgium and four that are under construction in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Chile.  Up until now Google has been very secretive about the operations at…

Technology Budgets: Cloud, Big Data, and Mobile Drive Growth

By Dick Weisinger

Global IT spending is on track to exceed $3.7 trillion in 2013, a 3.8 percent increase over this year, and it’s expected to hit $4 trillion in 2015.  Not too surprisingly, the technologies predicted to drive spend include big data,…

Big Data: Businesses Wary of Analytics based on Unknown Social Media Data Quality

By Dick Weisinger

A report from IBM and Oxford’s Saïd Business School found that two-thirds of organizations think that the use of Big Data could be useful to their organization.  But, at this point, 70 percent of them are only in the very…

Cloud Computing: Open Source Options See Low Number of Adopters amid Worries of Maturity of Technology

By Dick Weisinger

There’s been a lot of buzz about platforms like OpenStack that create an Open Source platform for building a cloud.  While interest in cloud computing in general is hyped incredibly high, surprisingly, a report from Zenoss finds that there hasn’t…