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SaaS: Making the Move to the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

So, you’ve heard a lot about Cloud Computing, On-Demand and SaaS.  You’ve heard that you can save money, operate more flexibly, reduce the need for specialized in-house IT skills, and be be more operationally efficient. You’ve heard the numbers that…

Social Media: Is Enterprise Software Destined to Mirror Facebook?

By Dick Weisinger

It looks like the answer is ‘yes’.  Every vendor from SAP to Microsoft is hatching a plan for adding more collaboration features into their software.   But whether a copy of Facebook-style Social Networking is the right answer for better enterprise…

Technology: IT Spending Expected Up in 2010

By Dick Weisinger

Coming off of a bad year in 2009, global IT spending is now on track to reach $3.4 trillion  in 2010, up 5.3 per cent on last year, according to Gartner.  New hardware is the main source of the growth.…

Records Management: Alfresco's Open Source Option

By Dick Weisinger

April has traditionally been celebrated as Records and Information Management Month (RIMM). So no better time than to give a look at Alfresco’s recently released Records Management module. Alfresco Records Management is certified for the DoD 5015.2 Standard. Below is…

Storage: Data Growth Impacts Disaster Recovery Plans

By Dick Weisinger

In the struggle between IT and the growing amounts of data in the enterprise, it looks like data may be getting the upper hand.  Data backups at some large corporations are becoming unwieldy. A survey of 400 companies by Sepaton…