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Collaboration: Businesses Struggle to Build a Consolidated View of their Customers

By Dick Weisinger

Goal number one at a majority of companies is  to increase revenues.  And many believe that the best way to grow revenues is to focus on the needs of existing and potential customers.  But a survey by Coveo, conducted by…

Storage: Strong Demand Drives Record Sales and Record Capacities

By Dick Weisinger

Disk Storage systems generated $8.5 billion in revenue in the fourth quarter of 2011, a 3.5 percent increase over 2010’s fourth quarter results, according to research company IDC.  The actual storage systems capacity shipped though jumped a healthy 22.4 percent…

Cloud Computing: 'PC' Morphs from 'Personal Computer' to 'Personal Cloud'

By Dick Weisinger

Tablets are dealing deathblows to the PC. Gartner predicts dramatic slowing of PC sales and a rapid upswing in the usage of tablet and mobile devices.  Gartner goes so far as to predict that as early as 2014 that cloud…

Health Care: Adequate Healthcare IT Infrastructure Often Lacking

By Dick Weisinger

We described here last week the results of a recent report that questions the touted benefits of Electronic Health Records.  That report found that using EHRs may not save as much money as originally estimated.  Specifically, the report questioned whether…

Cloud Computing: The Great Job Creator or Job Destroyer?

By Dick Weisinger

The cloud will create 14 million jobs from now until 2015 according to an IDC research report commissioned by Microsoft.  That’s welcome news where many economies are still staggering from the after effects of the 2008 Great Recession, where in…