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Cloud Computing: GSA Pushes Forward Government Adoption of the Cloud with FedRaMP

By Dick Weisinger

In January, the US Federal government issued a comprehensive list of 168 security control requirements in 16 categories that cloud providers must first comply with before being able to provide services to any Federal agency.   The requirements cover, for example,…

Extreme Data: Businesses Seek Competitive Advantage With Big Data Analytics

By Dick Weisinger

Increasingly organizations are collecting large amounts of data.  Big Data is one tool that has become available to help organizations turn their data to their advantage. Forrester Research estimates that enterprise data is growing annually at a rate of 40…

Enterprise IT: Rogue Employees Initiating DIY IT Projects

By Dick Weisinger

The ‘consumerization’ of Enterprise IT increasingly is moving IT responsibilities from a centralized IT group to departments and lines of business. A report from Intuit QuickBase finds that “50 percent of information workers now turn to online databases and Web…

Cloud Computing: Gartner Tracks Rapid Migration to SaaS-based BI, but Security and Bandwidth Issues Linger

By Dick Weisinger

Increasingly Business Intelligence (BI) projects are being deployed into the cloud.  A report from Gartner found that 17 percent of companies have already moved all their BI projects to the cloud and nearly one-third of organizations are planning or are…

Health Care: Rampant Number of Data Breaches Raises Concern

By Dick Weisinger

Last Friday, when reviewing the news headlines for the day, these three stood out: O.C. patients’ medical records compromised — 21,300 patients at Jude Medical Center in Fullerton and Mission Hospital facilities in Laguna Beach and Mission Viejo were inadvertantly…