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SaaS Security: Scrutinizing the Security Terms of Cloud Vendor Contracts

By Dick Weisinger

Numerous surveys and reports have found that the biggest worry businesses have today about adopting cloud/SaaS technologies is security.  For example, security is reported as a top concern by analysts like IDC, Gartner, and Forrester. With concerns around security high, it…

Cloud Computing: Businesses Weight the Pros and Cons

By Dick Weisinger

Cisco and PC Connection have done a new survey on Cloud Computing.  The answers to most of the survey questions are consistent with other similar surveys. Driver:  What Drives Businesses to be Interested in the Cloud? 42 percent – Improved…

SaaS: North America Leads Global Growth

By Dick Weisinger

Software as a Service, a technology largely pioneered and developed in the US, has seen acceptance and strong growth in the United States, but elsewhere, globally, growth has not been nearly as strong.  A report from Siemer and Associates compared…

3D Printing: Disruptive Technology on the Launchpad

By Dick Weisinger

3D printers ‘print’ objects in three-dimensions by melting melting a materials like plastic and then depositing them layer-by-layer, ultimately creating a three dimensional object.  Plastic is commonly used, but other materials like metal, polymer powders, or chocolate can also be…

Big Data: Hadoop 2.0's YARN Framework enables Real-Time Data Analysis

By Dick Weisinger

Hadoop was originally developed primarily as a web crawler for batch indexing the content of web sites.  Big Data analytics applications have adopted Hadoop, but because of its batch nature of the MapReduce algorithm, it isn’t good at interactively querying…