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Compliance: Pain Easing?

By Dick Weisinger

The first three years after the enactment of Sarbanes-Oxley were painful and expensive ones, but the pain seems to be easing. Grappling with what it all meant and paying to build the infrastructure to support the requirements wasn’t easy in…

SaaS: Mainframes Take on the Clouds

By Dick Weisinger

While cloud computing from on-Demand vendors like Salesforce, Amazon, NetSuite, Google and others are all the range, IBM is challenging the idea. IBM contends that on-Demand can’t adequately address issues like reliability, security, auditing, privacy, data integrity, and automation. IBM…

Enterprise Search: By Any Other Name…

By Dick Weisinger

A Gartner analyst at a recent conference said that “information access technology will locate and analyze more than 90 percent of data in more than 50 percent of Global 2000 enterprises” by the end of 2012. Information Access Technology (IAT)…

Technology: Virtualization Best Practices

By Dick Weisinger

David Marshall summarized Gartner’s recommendations for best practices around Virtualization: Start Small, Think Big Require a Rapid ROI Virtualize the Right Applications Define Your Storage Strategy Understand Software Issues Combine Virtual Machines Effectively Gartner reports that the success of virtualized…

Compliance: US Government Agencies Failing

By Dick Weisinger

While corportate America is strugging to come to terms with an alphabet soup of compliance regulations like SOX, HIPAA, GLBA and FISMA, agencies in the US government aren’t faring much better. In a recent review of four of the largest…