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Security: Cybercrime Costs and Incidents SkyRocket

By Dick Weisinger

Over the last year there has been a spike in the frequency and severity of cybercrime incidents.  The number of incidents reported increased by 56 percent and the average annual cost to a mid-size business now totals $6 million.  That…

Data Storage: Mistaking Backups for Archives

By Dick Weisinger

Companies often make the mistake of confusing archives with backups.  That’s an observation made by Laura Guio, IBM Vice President, Storage Sales, Systems & Technology Group, at the 2011 Implementing Information Infrastructure Symposium (IIIS) in Sydney sponsored by ComputerWorld. Backups and Archive…

Enterprise Software: App Stores Revive Enterprise Apps

By Dick Weisinger

In another sign that consumer technology is influencing the direction of technology used in the enterprise, App Stores catering to the needs of the enterprise are beginning to popup.  Apple popularized the on-line self-service model for selling software and data…

Security: People Continue to be the Weakest Link

By Dick Weisinger

A recent spate of hackings and breakins, including highly secure organizations like the Pentagon, EMC’s RSA and Lockheed Martin, has clearly shown that every organization is vulnerable.  Often it’s not the technology, the encryption and authentication methods or the firewalls…

Cloud Computing: A Fast Ticket to Data Silo Sprawl (DSS)?

By Dick Weisinger

A recent survey from ScienceLogic found that a majority of IT executives expect that cloud computing will reduce the number of their company data silos.  Only 17 percent worried that cloud computing will actually increase the number of islands of…