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Innovation: Can or Should Social Media Drive Product Innovation?

By Dick Weisinger

How are new technologies influencing innovation in businesses?  Which groups within companies are the engines of new innovation?  Those are a few of the questions that a study from the Economist and sponsored by Oracle, “Cultivating Business-Led Innovation”, tries to address. While…

Storage and Archival: Cloud Storage Popular for Backup, DR and Archival

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses recognize the importance of secure and reliable data storage, and as businesses factor in parameters like cost, convenience, and redundancy, increasingly they are choosing to store at least part of their total data in the cloud.  In fact, 44…

Emerging Technology Risks: Casting a Blind Eye

By Dick Weisinger

Emerging Technologies are making life difficult for auditors — and nervous.   Methodologies for calculating risks badly need to be updated in order to better assess risks.  While maybe not a perfect example, and maybe more a question of inadequate…

Cloud Computing: Cloud Storage Success and Worries

By Dick Weisinger

Public Cloud Storage systems have become overnight successes.  Gartner found that 20 percent of organizations are storing all or most of their electronic content in the cloud. Some of the many available public cloud storage vendors include: DropBox Box iCloud…

Cloud Computing: Businesses Fret Over Weak Cloud SLAs

By Dick Weisinger

Before jumping into Cloud computing, many customers worry about the risk of losing control of their data and applications once they move to the cloud vendor.  It seems like there might be good reason to worry. Lydia Leong, Vice President…