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Cloud Computing: Additional Complexity in Testing Web Applications

By Dick Weisinger

Testing and ensuring the quality of experience (QoE) of a web solution isn’t easy.  It goes beyond the testing of just the content and feature set of the web application.  It must also consider load and stress testing, security, performance…

Storage: Architecting an Hadoop Storage Platform for Unstructured Data

By Dick Weisinger

The convergence of massive amounts of cheap storage, fast processors, and software algorithms like MapReduce are fueling the growth of Big Data technoogy.  MapReduce is a computing framework that can distribute the processing of a problem described by very large…

Security: The State of CyberCrime and Data Breaches

By Dick Weisinger

Verizon has published for the fourth year in a row a comprehensive report on the state of data breaches.   The report surveys the number and types of data breach incidents that occur and also provides useful information to both…

Cloud Security: Lax Security Controls Make Many Organizations Vulnerable to Breaches

By Dick Weisinger

What you don’t know, or don’t investigate deeply enough, can hurt you.  Especially when it comes to security controls for cloud computing.  Many companies are entrusting highly sensitive and confidential data to the cloud, but they haven’t dug deeply enough…

Intellectual Property: Large Companies Increasingly Rely on Huge Troves of Patents and IP to Block Competition

By Dick Weisinger

In recent weeks, there have been numerous prominent news stories focused on Intellectual Property (IP) rights.  Companies have been exchanging billions of dollars to obtain patents and there have been court room battles over licensing and intellectual property ownership. Intellectual…