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Government IT: Budgets to Shrink Over Coming Years

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner is predicting a drop in US government spending on IT by as much as 8 percent in 2013.  IT spending for 2012 is forecast to be $79.2 billion, but in 2013, that’s expected to slip to $75.2 billion.  In…

Data Centers: Building the Infrastructure of the Future

By Dick Weisinger

Ellen Messmer, senior editor at Network World, recently reported Gartner’s 10 top trends in IT infrastructure that were outlined by Dave Cappuccio, Gartner Chief of Research,  in a keynote address at Gartner’s Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit. Tablet Proliferation – Tablets like the…

Cloud Computing: Europe Lags US by Two Years

By Dick Weisinger

While businesses located all over the world are showing interest in cloud computing, special circumstances in Europe are slowing adoption there. Paolo Malinverno, Research Vice President at Gartner, said that “The opportunities for cloud computing value are valid all over the…

Big Data: Significant Potential, but Still in Early Stages

By Dick Weisinger

70 percent of business and technology professionals told AIIM that they have an idea for a ‘killer application’ based on Big Data that could be used to provide significant competitive advantage or cost savings to their company.  Despite their ideas…

Collaboration Tools: Slowly Eroding the Need for Face-to-Face in Business?

By Dick Weisinger

There’s irony in an IBM report on a summary report of how CEO’s are seeing their businesses changing.  The first page of the report — on a background of white — contains only the words: “This study is based on…