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Technology: Are CIO's Destined to Become Technology Accountants?

By Dick Weisinger

Last June, a report by Gartner Inc. and the Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF) reported a shift in the relationship between IT and business operations.  42 percent of IT organizations now report directly to the CFO, and in 45 percent of organizations,…

Mobile + Social + Cloud == A new Post-Modern World of Technology

By Dick Weisinger

The world has moved into a new era, declared Gartner’s Peter Sonderguard, senior vice president of research at Gartner,  at the Gartner Symposium 2011 held in Orlando in November.  “This new era brings with it urgent and compelling forces. They…

Technology: Gartner Scales Back IT 2012 Growth Estimates

By Dick Weisinger

IT budgets grew by 6.9 percent in 2011 to $3.7 trillion.  But the rate of growth is expected to slow in 2012.  Worldwide IT revenues for 2012 are now projected to be $3.8 trillion in 2012, up 3.7 percent from…

Technology: Forrester Wrongly Predicts the Death of Web Pages

By Dick Weisinger

The Cloud has dominated much of the discussion and direction of computing over the last few years.  Now Forrester says that the clouds are bringing  ‘thunderstorms’.  The cloud combined with mobile is creating a new infrastructure that is dramatically changing our…

Big Data: Help Wanted: Need More Data Scientists

By Dick Weisinger

Both the hardware and software technologies are evolving at a rapid pace, increasingly making it possible to perform ‘Big Data’ analysis , but there is a fairly big gap in the number of trained technologists who are productively able use the…