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Technology: Business Execs End Run Traditional IT

By Dick Weisinger

Business execs increasingly are dissatisfied and frustrated with their internal IT staff and they’re building new technical teams outside of IT on the business side to take on new projects directly relevant to their business.  According to Forrester, there is…

Business Continuity: Businesses Look to Cloud and Mobile Tools for Help

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses are changing the structure of their business continuity plans to try to keep up with evolving technologies, and in many cases, new technologies are making business continuity easier to plan for. Laura DiDio, an analyst with Information Technology Intelligence…

Big Data: IBM's Watson — A Killer Big Data Application?

By Dick Weisinger

It has access to over 200 million pages of both structured and unstructured content on four terabytes of disk storage, and is capable of performing sophisticated computer analtyics that can of unlock hidden meaning in the data.  Sounds like another…

Big Data: Think of NoSQL As Complementary to Traditional RDBMS

By Dick Weisinger

With the growth of Big Data, there is a proliferation of tools and techniques being developed to corral and analyze all the data being collected.  Hadoop is one such technology that’s received it’s share of the hype.  Google created the…

Technology: ROI from IT Investments Trump Those of R&D and Advertising

By Dick Weisinger

Companies that invest in IT are making a smart decision.  A recent study by MIT found that companies found a high correlation between investment in information technology and company profitability.  The authors of the MIT report wrote that “we found…