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The Cloud: Fun Facts about Cloud Computing

By Dick Weisinger

Charles Babcock, editor at InformationWeek, recently included ‘5 Cloud Facts’ as part of his cover story piece on an investigation on the economics of Cloud computing.  Those facts came from as suite of surveys and studies done at InformationWeek.  Those facts…

Risk Management: Is Business Strategy at Odds with Risk Management?

By Dick Weisinger

Risk management is important to a business, but many c-level executives aren’t sure how best to handle it.  Often the conclusions and recommendations from a risk management report can be at odds to strategies and initiatives being developed by executives.…

Security: The State of CyberCrime and Data Breaches

By Dick Weisinger

Verizon has published for the fourth year in a row a comprehensive report on the state of data breaches.   The report surveys the number and types of data breach incidents that occur and also provides useful information to both…

Technology: Gartner Revises Downward the IT Spending Outlook for 2012

By Dick Weisinger

IT is big business. In 2012, total global IT spending is expected to reach $3.7 trillion. That’s equivalent to about the size of Germany’s entire GDP.  Big as it is though, the number is actually smaller than Gartner’s forecast made…

Data Management: Companies Struggle to Manage Sensitive Data

By Dick Weisinger

As organizations amass ever more data, the need to classify, organize, search and analyze large data sets is becoming increasingly important.  One area that is proving especially difficult for organizations is the ability to identify sensitive data, data which needs…