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Cloud Computing: Cloud Beginning to Shift to a Replacement of Rather than Complement to On-Premise

By Dick Weisinger

Forrester Research recently revised their forecast for the size of the public cloud market upwards by 20 percent than their 2011 estimate.  Forrester now says that public cloud computing will be a $191-billion market by 2020.  Their estimates changed after…

Enterprise Collaboration: Organizations Slow to Match the Collaboration Capabilities of Consumer-Grade Tools

By Dick Weisinger

Formal collaboration tools should be an essential part of every company’s infrastructure, said 89 percent of respondents on a recent survey by AIIM.  But most companies haven’t yet implemented them.  40 percent say that either the tools aren’t there or…

Open Source: Collaborative Development to be the Norm Rather than the Exception

By Dick Weisinger

The 80-20 rule.  Vilfredo Pareto first described it in the 19th century when he noticed that 80 percent of the wealth of people was held by only 20 percent of the population.  The so-called Pareto or 80-20 rule is is…

Big Data: How to “Write Once and Deploy” across Big Data Fabrics

By Dick Weisinger

Cascading is a Java-based framework for big-data/data-centric application development created and supported by Concurrent.  The framework abstracts and hides complex implementation details involved in the writing of big data applications.  Cascading is used by companies like eBay, Linkedin, the Climate…

Enterprise Security: Executives and IT Managers Have Different Perceptions of Security

By Dick Weisinger

IT teams often leave their executives in the dark.  A Ponemon security report found that about a third of IT security staff only inform their executives when they feel that there is a serious risk and 29 percent never communicate…