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Emerging Technology Risks: Casting a Blind Eye

By Dick Weisinger

Emerging Technologies are making life difficult for auditors — and nervous.   Methodologies for calculating risks badly need to be updated in order to better assess risks.  While maybe not a perfect example, and maybe more a question of inadequate…

Technology: Mainframes and Innovation — Two Concepts that don't need to be Mutually Exclusive

By Dick Weisinger

Mainframes?  Other than for competitions between nations and multinationals to see who can build the fastest super-computer in the world, do people really still use “big iron” mainframes?  IBM has been trying to convince people for years that the death…

Data Centers: The High Cost of Downtime

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud Computing services from Google and Microsoft offer guaranteed uptimes of better than 99.9%.  While that sounds good, it’s not good enough for many application. Mission critical apps need to be up at all times and typically target an availability…

2013 IT Growth in Spending Relatively Flat Except for SMAC Technologies

By Dick Weisinger

Growth in global IT spending in 2012 has been anemic.  And Gartner’s forecast for spending for 2013 predicts slow gains — up 2.5 percent to $2.679 trillion. Gartner says that government is one sector that isn’t faring well, seeing a drop…

Disruption: All Industry Segments are Vulnerable — It's a Question of When

By Dick Weisinger

Chances are the industry you’re working in is a candidate for disruption.   A recent study by Deloitte found that nearly all industries are eventually subject to disruptions of some kind, with some more susceptible than others.  When looking at the…