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Yearly Archives: 2015

Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solutions (HCIS) Market: 116 Percent Growth in 2015

By Dick Weisinger

Where are technologies like virtualization, containerization, and software-defined enterprises taking us?  Hyperconvergence is a term some are beginning to use to describe an architecture for IT infrastructure that builds on a set of nodes that work together to manage computing and…

Cloud Computing: Nearly One Third of IT Infrastructure Spending is Going to the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

Spending on cloud infrastructure now makes up 30 percent of total IT infrastructure according to IDC.  The estimate is based on numbers from first quarter 2015 and is a jump from 26.4 percent in first quarter 2014. Kuba Stolarski, Research…

Enterprise Mobility: Consumers Have Mobile and now Enterprises Want it Too

By Dick Weisinger

There are more than 7.3 billion mobile devices in a world that only has 7 billion people, says Forrester Research. While the first wave of mobile has been focused primarily on consumers, mobile is beginning to make a strong showing in the…

Data Mining: Are Your Old Data Archives a Source of Untapped Revenue?

By Dick Weisinger

Your archived data may have unlocked value.  That’s the conclusion of a study by IDC sponsored by Iron Mountain.  The report found that some businesses that have started to mine data locked away in old archives have been able to…

Amazon TLS: Amazon Offers Simpler More-Secure Open-Source Replacement to OpenSSL

By Dick Weisinger

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released an alternative cryptographic module for transmitting data across the Internet.  They’re calling it “s2n“, short for “signal-to-noise”.  s2n is an implementation of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and could be a successor to OpenSSL…