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Data Centers: To Keep Pace, Businesses Feel Obligated to Continue Investing

By Dick Weisinger

Despite sluggish business growth and worries about the direction of the economy, businesses are continuing a slow investment in the building out of their data centers.  That’s the finding of the Uptime Institute, a division of the 451 Group.  Those…

Cloud Computing: Spending Expected To Double Over Next Four Years

By Dick Weisinger

Global IT spending over the next year is expected to be in the range of $3.6 trillion, a three percent increase over the previous year’s $3.5 trillion.  That’s the forecast from Gartner Research. Gartner thinks that spending will remain relatively…

Big Data: Smart Grids and new Technologies Wallop Utility Companies with Data Overflow

By Dick Weisinger

Oracle has issued a new report outlining how the use of Big Data provides the potential to be transformative for the utility industry.  The report is called “Utility Transformations: Big Data, Bigger Opportunities”.  This is a companion report from Oracle…

Big Data: Nearly One-Third of Organizations Give Themselves Failing Grades in Data Management

By Dick Weisinger

A new report from Oracle about management of Big Data echoes results from numerous other studies and reports showing that organizations are increasingly faced with tough challenges in being able to manage the ever increasing amounts of data which they…

Cloud Computing: OpenStack Hopes to Build a Challenge to Amazon

By Dick Weisinger

OpenStack, the Open Source software for building out cloud infrastructure, has recently passed the two year milestone.  While OpenStack is not the only option for creating a cloud (alternatives include CloudStack, Eucalyptus and VMWare’s vCloud Director), it’s the one that…