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Cloud Computing/SaaS: Worldwide Growth of SaaS Market Continues

By Dick Weisinger

Worldwide spending on the SaaS market is expected to grow at the rate of 17.9 percent during 2012, reaching $14.5 billion by the end of the year.  By 2015, SaaS will become a $22.1 billion market, a number which was…

Open Source: The Good, Bad and Ugly — Studies in Two Extremes

By Dick Weisinger

When top-class Open Source tools and applications (think software like Linux, Apache Web Server, PostgresSQL and PHP) went head to head against similar proprietary software, a recent survey found that Open Source bested or equaled the quality of their proprietary cousins.…

Cloud Computing: IT Teams Stressed by Business Plans to Rapidly Adopt Cloud and SaaS

By Dick Weisinger

A report from Saugatuck Technology finds that the move by businesses to the cloud is happening at a blazing pace.  The report sees that businesses are moving to the cloud happening in two phases, first a transitional phase where systems…

Cloud Computing: Public Cloud Adoption by Enterprises is a Near-Term Inevitability

By Dick Weisinger

Cost reduction is the top IT priority for CIOs over the next twelve months.  Complexity reduction is their top strategy for achieving savings.  That’s according to a study sponsored by BMC and conducted by Forrester Research. The Forrester report synthesized…

Collaboration: Mobile Technology and Remote Workers on the Rise

By Dick Weisinger

Workers are increasingly doing more of their work remotely, and the trend is only accelerating as mobility and video conference technologies improve.  Virtual collaboration refers to the people working together on solving a problem but without face-to-face interaction. Virtual collaboration…