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Collaboration: Little Value Unless it can Address Solving a Business Problem

By Dick Weisinger

Too much emphasis on the technology  and not enough on how to solve business problems is often the reason why a technology will fail.  Gartner says that’s exactly what’s been happening with Collaboration technologies.  Carol Rozwell, vice President at Gartner…

Cloud Computing: Cloud Governance Out of Control

By Dick Weisinger

There’s another survey out on cloud computing, this time by Avenade, a technology services company.  The results duplicate the results of a number of other similar surveys that have recently been made, but one result is worth looking into.  The…

Data Centers: Virtualization Requires Security Plans to be Rethought

By Dick Weisinger

Security plans that worked well with traditional networking and non-virtualized servers don’t necessarily transfer directly to the world of cloud computing and virtualization.  Virtualization requires that security measures be rethought. Virtualization removes the one-to-one mapping between the physical device and…

Social Media: Small Companies Jump on Board

By Dick Weisinger

Small Businesses have jumped into Social Media in a big way.   As many as 69 percent of small business have adopted some form of Social Media, where the definition of Social Media includes Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or blogging.  Of…

Technology: Kundra Resignation Blow to Government

By Dick Weisinger

One bright spot in the Obama administration has been the handling of IT in the Federal Government.   Federal IT is in the midst of a turnaround, and much of the success has been due to Obama’s creation the new…