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Technology: IT Outsourcers Squeezed by Fierce Competition and Failure to Adapt to Customer Needs

By Dick Weisinger

In this age of the cloud, global IT sourcing, and IT-savvy business managers, IT service companies are getting squeezed from all sides.  Gartner focused on the challenges of one segment of the IT services industry in a recent study, infrastructure…

Technology: Are Cloud and Mobile Pulling us Forward or Holding us Back?

By Dick Weisinger

Forrester recently took out their crystal ball to attempt some predictions for what the world of technology will look like three years from now.  Not surprisingly, they see today’s top hot technologies of cloud, mobile, social and data as laying…

IT Policies: Businesses See Value in BYOD, but are Slow to Revamp Policies

By Dick Weisinger

60 percent of workers now use personal computing devices at their workplace, according to a survey by Avanade, a venture company backed by Accenture and Microsoft.  Additionally, half of the respondents say that more than half of their workers use…

Java Frameworks: Simplified Development, but are there Risks?

By Dick Weisinger

Improper use of programming languages and their associated frameworks can lead to security issues in applications. A report from CAST Research Labs called CRASH  (CAST Research on Application Software Health) compared Java open-source frameworks and tried to identify and rank…

Technology: CIOs are Being Pressured By Shrinking Budgets and New Responsibilities

By Dick Weisinger

CIOs are being squeezed by the five consecutive year of flat budgets and increasing pressure to deliver new and innovative technology.   As we move into 2013, Gartner expects IT budgets to be down .5 percent for the year.  A…