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Yearly Archives: 2015

CyberSecurity: Top-One-Percent Most Active Users Responsible for Most Security Risks

By Dick Weisinger

Users are your biggest threat to cybersecurity.  A recent study by CloudLock found that key users often dominate application and data storage usage, and that it makes sense to focus on training the power users on security and best-practices.  CloudLock refers to these most active…

Cloud Computing: Governments Ripe for the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

All levels of government are expected to move their data from legacy on-premise systems to the cloud from now until 2020, according to a survey by Socrata and sponsored by EMC Research. 79 percent of government agencies say that most…

Oracle and Java: Plans to Obsolete Java?

By Dick Weisinger

With JavaOne 2015 only a few weeks away, some are questioning Oracle’s commitment to Java. In early September, there were numerous rumours that Oracle had laid off many or all of their Java evangelist team.  The speculated rationale for the…

Hybrid Cloud Computing: Still Five Years Before Commonly Used

By Dick Weisinger

Autonomous Vehicles and the Internet of Things (IoT) are cited as being at the peak of inflated expectations in Gartner’s 2015 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies.  Hybrid Cloud Computing also shows up on the list, but it’s moved significantly past its point…

Nested Clouds: Running an App in the Clouds

By Dick Weisinger

The cloud-based app that you’re using may not be just running in “the cloud”.  It’s becoming more common that it may actually be running in “the clouds”. Cloud apps are increasingly being created by stacking together cloud resources.  For example, a SaaS…