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HTML5: Early Adopters Burnt by a Technology that's not yet Ready

By Dick Weisinger

The 2012 Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies chart shows HTML5 as nearing it’s peak of hype and it is marked as becoming a mature technology over the next 5-10 years.  Many businesses and developers not wanting to be left…

Security: Data Breaches More Often a Result of Workers' Negligence Than External Hackers

By Dick Weisinger

A recent Forrester report finds that just 56 percent of workers have any idea about what their company policy is regarding computer security.  The report found that only 25 percent of security breach cases are the result of  attacks initiated…

Cloud Computing: Cloud Growth Numbers Revised Upwards

By Dick Weisinger

Growth of public cloud computing services is exceeding even earlier rosy predictions. Gartner now says that computing services will grow by as much as 19.6 percent his year, reaching $109 billion.  This compares to another recent competing analyst study from…

Big Data versus Business Intelligence: Two Technologies on a Collision Course

By Dick Weisinger

Today, products like  SAP’s Business Objects, IBM Cognos and Oracle Hyperion make up the leaders in the category of Business Intelligence software.  IDC reports that the Business Intelligence and Analytics market will grow to nearly $50 billion by 2016.  That market…

Data Centers: The Engines Behind the Cloud Revolution

By Dick Weisinger

Data Centers are rapidly being transformed.  They’re shrinking in size, drawing more power, and increasing in complexity — with the result that they are able to provide a rapidly increasing capacity for computation. Recently Kurt Marko at InformationWeek reviewed the…