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Cloud Computing: Amazon AWS Accelerates

By Dick Weisinger

Every time you hit a web page on the internet, there is a request-response loop that flows between the request made from your browser to the host server of the site you are hitting which returns a packet of data…

Cloud Computing: 2011 Will be the Year of Failures

By Dick Weisinger

Forrester is predicting that 2011 will turn out to be a year of Cloud Computing failure.  Hype and unrealistic expectations will lead many organizations to jump into the Cloud Computing fray before they are fully prepared, and that will lead…

Cloud Computing: Feds Push Hard for Cloud Solutions

By Dick Weisinger

Despite Federal CIO Vivek Kundra own warning that “agencies should make risk-based decisions which carefully consider the readiness of commercial or government providers to fulfill their Federal needs,” the new federal budget is pushing hard to adopt cloud solutions where…

Scanning: What's Driving Organizations to Digitize Their Paper?

By Dick Weisinger

The benefits of capturing paper documents and converting them into digital format are well known.  The benefits include: Better organization of data Improve access to information Improve searchability of data / significantly faster Increase information security Digital documents saves space…

Data Breach: How Well is Health Information Being Protected?

By Dick Weisinger

Data breaches at hospitals have recently been in the headlines: 1.7 million records from patients, vendors and contractors was stolen in a breach of New York City Health and Hospital Corp (HHC) information, a system of 14 hospitals.  The information…