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Social Media: Is the Bubble About to Burst?

By Dick Weisinger

There’s trouble in the world of social media.   The market has become saturated and growth is slowing.  During the last six months, growth in the number of Facebook users in the US and Europe has become stagnant. It may…

Cloud Computing: IaaS Offers Few Cost Savings, but Provides Greater Agility

By Dick Weisinger

“Cloud [computing] has three technological aspects — infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and finally software-as-a-service (SaaS),” says Fabrizio Biscotti, research director at analyst firm Gartner. Gartner calls Cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) the “computing” part of “cloud computing,” and considers it the…

Open Data: A shift from Big Data to Big Insight

By Dick Weisinger

Rapid changes in technology have led to many unexpected changes in our world.  2011 was a year where technology gave a voice to traditionally suppressed people.  Social tools like Twitter and Facebook have provided tools that let people to communicate…

Security: Sensitive Data Threatened by Privileged Users?

By Dick Weisinger

You’d think that CEO, top executives or the board at most companies would be the people with access to the company’s most sensitive data.  While 30 percent of companies say that their executives exclusively hold the keys to company sensitive data,…

Data Analytics: Investment in Better Data == 'Low-Hanging Fruit'

By Dick Weisinger

“The cost of increasing effective data is relatively minor compared to the substantial returns doing so can bring.”  That’s the result of a study sponsored by Sybase and conducted by the University of Texas at Austin and the Indian School…