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Cloud Computing: Sequestration Stalls Federal IT Budgets in 2013

By Dick Weisinger

Sequestration has hit federal budgets this year, resulting in budgets for 2013 that have been basically flat.  A report from IDC expects that federal IT budgets will begin to grow again in 2014, and spending on the cloud is expected

Cloud Computing: Worries Persist about Operational Failure and Hidden Costs

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud computing offers numerous advantages over on-premise alternatives, such as reduction of IT resources, lower start-up costs, easier scalability, and flexible provisioning.  But while a recent whitepaper by Research In Action found that 81 percent of businesses are already or

Cloud Computing: For SMEs, Other Technologies are more Important than the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

Which technologies matter most for small and medium companies today? A survey by Oxford Economics, sponsored by SAP, determined the top five.  While the technologies that made the list are in themselves not surprising, the relative rankings may be. The

Cloud Security: Security Worries Still Stop Many Businesses from Leaping to the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

The good news is that there are fewer concerns about cloud data security.  A recent survey by North Bridge Venture Partners found that the number of IT professionals citing security as their top concern with the cloud dropped from 55

Enterprise Search: Solr + Hadoop = Simplified Google-like Big Data Analysis

By Dick Weisinger

One problem with straight-up Hadoop solutions has been the difficulty of performing ad-hoc queries across the entire data set.  Cloudera now offers a solution that combines Apache Solr with Hadoop, a step that could greatly shrink the skill gap that