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Data Virtualization: Better than Integration by ETL or Data WareHouses

By Dick Weisinger

By now you’ve heard of virtualization when applied to servers.  Server virtualization is the primary enabling technology for cloud computing.  Forrester Research and others are now talking about another kind of virtualization that has potential to further transform IT operations…

Open Data: Rise of the Rogue Citizen Developer and End-User Application Development

By Dick Weisinger

Citizen Developers are users who are not directly responsible for or authorized to build software applications or tools for an organization.  They are members of the organization who typicallyare motivated by a need to automate a task, improve the user…

Data Centers: Custom Facilities Optimized for Location

By Dick Weisinger

What keeps operators of large data centers awake at night?  An IDC report authored by Trevor Clarke and Mathew Oostveen investigates the biggest challenges that data center operators are facing.  The study looked at data centers in Australia. The major pain…

Security: Consumer Technologies Invade the Enterprise

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprise IT infrastructure is at risk from the increased exposure to consumer software and hardware.   Empl0yees are increasingly using personal technology devices, like tablet computers and smartPhones to access their company’s email and intranet services, and they also are…

Technology: Federal Government to Cut 800 Data Centers with a Goal to Shrink to Just 3

By Dick Weisinger

Vivek Kundra, the first executive-branch CIO, in his final days on the job before taking a job at Harvard in August, announced a plan to cut the number of federal data centers from roughly 2000 today to 1200 over the…