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Cloud Computing: Cloud Security and Messaging Poised for Rapid Growth

By Dick Weisinger

Increasingly businesses are migrating their applications and pieces of their IT infrastructure to the cloud. Bryan Britz, research director at Gartner, said that “Public cloud adoption is accelerating and public cloud services do, and will, cannibalize IT services spending in the…

Cloud Computing: On-Premise versus Cloud uptimes

By Dick Weisinger

While having all your applications running in your own data center may give you a better sense of control compared to a scenario where they’re running in the cloud, the uptimes of major cloud players typically exceed the uptimes provided…

Open Source / Open Development / Open Design: Leveraging Transparency for Greater Success

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source is  “a software development method that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process,” says the Open Source Initiative. Open Source software has had many successes with perhaps Linux been the most noteworthy example. William Eshagh,…

Business Intelligence: Businesses Use Visualization and Drill-Downs to Discover Data Insights

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner’s recent research (download the report complementary from Microstrategy or from Tableau) on the Business Intelligence (BI) market shows that both Business Intelligence and the complementary technology Big Data markets grew significantly in 2012.  The BI market is on track…

Big Data: Businesses Increasingly Pilot Big Data Projects

By Dick Weisinger

Over 75 percent of mid to large-size companies plan to adopt Big Data solutions over the next year, according to a survey sponsored by Microsoft.  62 percent of the companies interviewed store more than 100 terabytes of data, while nearly…