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Big Data: Data Growth Presents Challenges to Federal Agencies

By Dick Weisinger

Federal IT’s push towards the cloud seems out of step with the traditional slow and plodding approach towards projects and technology that the Federal government is well known for.  It’s actually been a somewhat refreshing development.  Unfortuantely a new report…

Big Data: Companies Look to the Cloud and Outsourcing for their Big Data Projects

By Dick Weisinger

Organizations of all sizes are increasingly taking on Big Data projects.  A recent report by GigaOM and sponsored by Logicworks investigated what motivates these organizations to use Big Data and the challenges these organizations face when they take on Big Data…

Social Media: Gartner Expects Half of Social Media Campaigns to Fail

By Dick Weisinger

“Doing social media because everyone else is doing it is not a strategy,” said Scott Nelson, a Gartner analyst who focuses on social media strategies for enterprises.  “One of the keys to being successful is to know what you’re trying…

Cloud Computing: Five Trends For the Cloud in 2012

By Dick Weisinger

David Cearley, vice president and Gartner fellow said that “Cloud computing is a major technology trends that has permeated the market over the last two years.” Gartner identifies the following five trends now occurring in the cloud computing market: Cloud customers…

Cloud Computing: Too Risky for Mission Critical?

By Dick Weisinger

Most analysts are convinced that companies have moved or are moving to the cloud in a big way. Forrester says that sometime this year we will have reached the point where 50 percent of companies are using some form of…