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Monthly Archives: August 2016

Cloud Computing: Cumulative Five-Year Spending on Cloud IT to Exceed $1 Trillion

By Dick Weisinger

Business IT is rapidly migrating from traditional direct management of servers, software licensing and infrastructure to cloud computing.  Gartner expects that the $114 billion spent by IT on cloud services this year to grow to more than $216 billion by

Analytics of Things (AoT): Using IoT to Create a High-Definition of the World

By Dick Weisinger

Analysts predict that by 2020 there will be 30 billion devices connected to the internet.  So many devices will be connected that the synergy of all these devices working and communicating together has been given the name of the “Internet

Cloud Computing: IaaS is Transforming the IT Value Chain

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprises are beginning to accept and adopt public cloud services.  A report by IDC finds that businesses are beginning to standardize their IT infrastructure using public cloud IaaS services.  IDC estimates that public IaaS revenues were $12.6 billion in 2015

Cloud Computing Infrastructure: Cloud Infrastructure Spending Slows Slightly but Expected to Pick up in Second Half

By Dick Weisinger

Despite hype around cloud computing, even cloud computing spending seems to have leveled off for a bit in the first quarter, growing only a modest 3.9 percent annual rate in the first quarter, according to IDC.  But IDC predicts that rapid growth

Enterprise Security: Cloud and Outsourced IT Operations Bring Risks

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud software is increasingly attracting businesses to move more of the infrastructure and services outside of their IT oversight.  That decision can bring efficiencies, associated cost savings, and often better quality.  But Gartner says that the tradeoff for moving IT