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Mobile Computing: Mobile Adoption High Among ‘Creatives’

By Dick Weisinger

Creative professionals and designers are adopting mobile at a rapid pace, based on a study by Adobe. David Wadhwani, senior Digital Media vice president and general manager at Adobe, said that “creatives are going mobile, and this means a sea change…

Cloud Computing: Understanding the Limits of Cloud SLAs

By Dick Weisinger

While often businesses cite security as their most common worry about cloud services, the risk of downtime is another factor that’s not spoken of nearly as much. ‘Standard cloud SLAs’ often provide little to the customer in  compensation if/when things…

Compliance: Challenges Increase but Budgets are Often Underfunded

By Dick Weisinger

Corporate ethics and compliance continue to be under close scrutiny across all businesses.  Compliance is particularly important to businesses that operate in many different geographies and need to comply with different local and regional regulations and rules. Keeping tabs on…

Enterprise Software: Identified by Gartner as Fastest Growing IT Segment

By Dick Weisinger

At the halfway point for 2014, Gartner released their data and forecast for IT spending.  We’re currently on track to see levels as high as $3.7 trillion spent on global IT this year, that’s an increase of about 2.1 percent…

Open Data: US Government Reports Progress, but Much More is Needed

By Dick Weisinger

McKinsey and Company estimates that the value of Open Data when considered globally could top $3 trillion. In order to check the progress of Open Data within the US, the US Federal Government created an Open Government Dashboard.  This was done following…