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Cloud Security: Businesses Juggle Security with the Benefits of BYOD Productivity

By Dick Weisinger

What’s the top issue keeping IT security professionals awake at night?  The policy around ‘Bring Your Own Device’ (BYOD).  78 percent say that that one issue causes them the most worry and that it poses a “somewhat or very significant

Infrastructure and Operations: Pressured by Fewer Dollars and Rapidly Changing Business Process Requirements

By Dick Weisinger

Business IT Infrastructure and Operations are being pressured by two, often competing, forces: Business groups pushing IT to help drive and support changing business processes Shrinking Budgets have IT organizations looking at ways to save I&O dollars Keeping Pace with

Cloud Computing Security: IT Leaders Too 'Hands Off' When it Comes to Cloud Security

By Dick Weisinger

About half of organizations have policies in place that for vetting cloud computing applications for possible security risks before deploying them, according to a report from the Ponemon Institute on the state of Cloud User Security in 2013.  The group

Open Source Cloud Computing: Riak Cloud Storage Offers AWS-S3 Compatibility

By Dick Weisinger

Basho was founded in 2008 by a group of executives and software engineers from Akamai Technologies.  Over the last five years, the team has received $26 million ($39 million based on GigaOm’s estimates) in venture funding.  While the company name

SaaS and the Cloud: A Contrarian Voice Questioning the Hype

By Dick Weisinger

While cloud computing may be delivering on it’s promises to users of the technology, things may not be as rosy for the vendors that are providing the services. Anthony Miller, analyst at TechMarketView, is one such contrarian.  It’s not that