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Cloud Computing: Security Concerns Blown out of Proportion?

By Dick Weisinger

The main themes at the DreamForce 2011 event sponsored by Salesforce.com in San Francisco were social, mobile and the cloud. On the cloud theme, Vivek Kundra,  and in his  last few days as Federal IT CIO, said at DreamForce that it is ‘ridiculous’ for…

Technology: Users Take the Enterprise Home

By Dick Weisinger

Technology  is rapidly changing how people do their jobs.  A recent IDC report found that technologies that are forcing that change include mobility, collaboration and social media. More than half of US and European workers now report that their laptop…

Technology: IT Budget Growth Estimates Revised Downward

By Dick Weisinger

While many IT budgets remain huge, a majority of analysts and economists are now adjusting IT spending forecasts downward over the next year.  The US Federal budget currently comes in at around $80 billion, and Peter Sondergaard, Senior Vice President of…

Cloud Computing: Uncovering the Hidden Costs of the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud Computing can offer significant advantages over traditional on-premise computing, but those benefits don’t always come as cheaply as they might appear on the surface. Some ‘hidden’ or unanticipated cloud computing costs include the following: Bandwidth costs and limitations –…

Document Security: Managed File Transfers Enhance Standard FTP

By Dick Weisinger

A survey by HubSpan finds that FTP is still a widely used tool for exchanging file data at more than 77 percent of companies, and of those that don’t currently use it, 40 percent say they’d like to set up…