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Security and the Cloud: Moving Data to the Cloud Multiplies the Cost of Security Breaches

By Dick Weisinger

The cost of a security breach in a cloud apps is generally significantly more expensive to remedy compared to a similar app running on-premise — as much as three times more expensive, based on a study by the Ponemon Institute…

Cloud Computing: The Containerization of Apps

By Dick Weisinger

Docker, the ‘Linux Container Engine’, is open-source Linux technology that can package all components needed by an application into a single container which can then be easily moved between cloud platforms, virtual machines, or physical bare-metal servers.  Docker allows software…

Data Storage: Do You Know Where to Find Your Most Sensitive Data?

By Dick Weisinger

Do you know where your data is?  Not just any data, but the most sensitive and critical data that your company depends on?  In a global survey of IT professionals, only 16 percent said that they could locate that information.…

Mobile Programming: Apple’s New Swift Programming Language

By Dick Weisinger

In an attempt to ease the pain of writing Apple iOS mobile apps, Apple has introduced a new language that is targeted to replace Objective-C. Craig Federighi, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, announced that “we have a new…

Unstructured Data: Using Analytics to Make Sense of Dark Data’s Secrets

By Dick Weisinger

Unstructured data is electronic information that isn’t rigidly divided into small bits of data and stored in data structures like the tables of a database or the elements of an XML document.  Because of that, unstructured data is difficult to…