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Mobile: Mobile is the Third Generation of IT after Mainframes and PCs

By Dick Weisinger

Frank Gens, senior vice president and chief analyst at IDC, reported by RCRWireless that “Our view is that the IT industry is in the middle of a once-every-25-year shift to a new technology platform for growth and innovation – that’s…

IT Budgets: A Pickup in Sales and Spending Expected in 2013

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner’s updated forecast for IT spending in 2013 is revised upward.  Global information technology spending is expected to reach $3.7 trillion this year, a 4.2 percent increase over spending in 2012.  This is an upward revision of Gartner’s previous estimate of…

SaaS: 2012 Was a Big Year for Adoption — Expect More of the Same in 2013

By Dick Weisinger

The use of SaaS in businesses is reaching the point where it is the norm rather than the exception, with adoption of the technology soaring over the past year.  Gartner finds that over the past three years that 71 percent…

Security: Lack of Adequate Training Leave Many IT Staff Unprepared

By Dick Weisinger

To call them ‘clueless’ might be too harsh, but  almost one third of IT professionals were uninformed about some of the hardest hitting cyber security threats making the rounds in 2012.  This despite the fact that many of those same…

Big Data: Hadoop Causes Rewiring of ETL Processes into ELT Ones

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data may bring with it Big Changes in the actual data flow involved in the data analysis process.  Data analysis is often preceded by a process called ETL which preps and collects the data that is to be analyzed.…