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Technology: Recession Deals Two-Year Set-back to IT Spending

By Dick Weisinger

Back in August 2008 at the start of the recent recession, worldwide IT spending growth was strong and increasing at a rate of 10 percent annually.  Gartner at the time predicted that worldwide IT spending would hit $3.6 trillion in…

IT: Is it Dead or is it Vital for Business Survival?

By Dick Weisinger

Last year ComputerWorld declared that ‘IT is dead‘, and many industry pundits have agreed.  Increasingly cloud and mobile technologies enablesmany groups within organizations to end run IT, marginalizing both the IT department and the CIO.  So the results of a…

Technology: Companies Struggle to Keep Up with Change

By Dick Weisinger

Technology changes are happening too quickly for many companies to keep up.  New technology is revolutionizing just about every industry and profession, from media and journalism to engineering and manufacturing.  61 percent of IT managers say that they struggle to…

Data Centers: Virtualization Requires Security Plans to be Rethought

By Dick Weisinger

Security plans that worked well with traditional networking and non-virtualized servers don’t necessarily transfer directly to the world of cloud computing and virtualization.  Virtualization requires that security measures be rethought. Virtualization removes the one-to-one mapping between the physical device and…

Technology: Kundra Resignation Blow to Government

By Dick Weisinger

One bright spot in the Obama administration has been the handling of IT in the Federal Government.   Federal IT is in the midst of a turnaround, and much of the success has been due to Obama’s creation the new…