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Collaboration: Mobile Technology and Remote Workers on the Rise

By Dick Weisinger

Workers are increasingly doing more of their work remotely, and the trend is only accelerating as mobility and video conference technologies improve.  Virtual collaboration refers to the people working together on solving a problem but without face-to-face interaction. Virtual collaboration…

Open Data: UK sets Open Data Example, Leapfrogging US Efforts

By Dick Weisinger

In a written memorandum, Barack Obama promised that “My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration.…

Data Centers: Companies Losing Battle In Achieving Efficiency

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud Computing is gradually chipping away at on-premise infrastructure.   Slowly both small and large businesses are moving towards the cloud.   Small and medium sized businesses are finding it easy to adopt applications which they never were able to…

Cloud Computing: Adoption as Rorschach — Perspectives on the CIO Psyche

By Dick Weisinger

How  a CIO reacts to and engages with Cloud Computing can be interpreted as a sort of Rorschach test for the CIO psyche.  A report by CA Technologies found that CIOs that adopt cloud computing tend to be more ambitious than…

Technology: Gartner Revises Downward the IT Spending Outlook for 2012

By Dick Weisinger

IT is big business. In 2012, total global IT spending is expected to reach $3.7 trillion. That’s equivalent to about the size of Germany’s entire GDP.  Big as it is though, the number is actually smaller than Gartner’s forecast made…