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Federal Cloud Computing: Cloud Readiness Varies Widely Across Agencies

By Dick Weisinger

Overall, across all of federal government, cloud acceptance and adoption is expected to quite fast.  A report by CDW found that as of the summer of 2011 already 41 percent of federal government agencies had a written plan in place…

CIOs: Can the Role of CIO Survive? Not as it's currently defined.

By Dick Weisinger

CIOs get no respect.  Gartner found in a survey of CEOs that only 4 percent of them consider their CIO as a partner in managing their strategy and innovation. CIOs want to change that perspective.  And increasingly the CIO is…

Security/Cybercrime: Are Losses Out of Control — or Over-exagerated?

By Dick Weisinger

“Cybercrime is bigger than the global black market in marijuana cocaine and heroin combined ($288 billion) and approaching the value of all global drug trafficking ($411 billion)”  reports Norton (a Symantec company) on a 2011 summary infographic about cybercrime. Weysan…

Machine Intelligence: Will Machines Soon Be Able to Ace the Turing Test?

By Dick Weisinger

In a 1950 paper, Alan Turing proposed the question ‘Can machines think?’.  That question inspired scientists and engineers working in the field of ‘artificial intelligence’.  Turing proposed that a machine could be considered as able to ‘think’ if it could…

Mobile Security: Smartphones still 'Enterprise Unready'

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprise networks are increasingly being accessed by mobile devices and that’s making a lot of IT professionals uncomfortable.  A recent report found that only 9 percent of organizations are aware of which mobile devices are accessing their networks.  And in…