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Data Management: Discontent Leads to Plans for Migration

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses aren’t satisfied with their current data management solutions. Irfan Khan, Vice President and Chief Technology of SAP’s Sybase, recently reported results of a survey of IT groups from enterprises with more than 15,000 workers conducted on their behalf by IDG.…

HTML5: Early Adopters Burnt by a Technology that's not yet Ready

By Dick Weisinger

The 2012 Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies chart shows HTML5 as nearing it’s peak of hype and it is marked as becoming a mature technology over the next 5-10 years.  Many businesses and developers not wanting to be left…

Security: Data Breaches More Often a Result of Workers' Negligence Than External Hackers

By Dick Weisinger

A recent Forrester report finds that just 56 percent of workers have any idea about what their company policy is regarding computer security.  The report found that only 25 percent of security breach cases are the result of  attacks initiated…

Cloud Computing: Cloud Growth Numbers Revised Upwards

By Dick Weisinger

Growth of public cloud computing services is exceeding even earlier rosy predictions. Gartner now says that computing services will grow by as much as 19.6 percent his year, reaching $109 billion.  This compares to another recent competing analyst study from…

Big Data versus Business Intelligence: Two Technologies on a Collision Course

By Dick Weisinger

Today, products like  SAP’s Business Objects, IBM Cognos and Oracle Hyperion make up the leaders in the category of Business Intelligence software.  IDC reports that the Business Intelligence and Analytics market will grow to nearly $50 billion by 2016.  That market…