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Data: Enterprises Shift Data from On-Premise to Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

Between 2017 and 2018, the database market size grew by 18.4 percent, according to Gartner. That’s big. But what’s bigger is what’s beneath the numbers: two-thirds of the growth came from the cloud. Adam Ronthal, analyst at Gartner, said that…

IaaS: Today’s Big Vendors will Continue to Dominate

By Dick Weisinger

It’s likely that only the biggest of the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud providers will be able to survive. Sid Nag, research vice president at Gartner , said that “despite strong growth across the board, the cloud market’s consolidation…

Bitcoin: Consumes More Electricity than all of Switzerland

By Dick Weisinger

Bitcoin consumes a quarter of one percent of the world’s electricity, according to a new report by CBECI (Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index). When compared to countries use of electricity, Bitcoin ranks at 40, consuming more electricity than countries like…

WCM 2019: Leaders in the Website Content Management Space

By Dick Weisinger

At the end of July, Gartner released the 2019 Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management (WCM). The report is available as a free download from many of the vendors that were included in the survey: Adobe, Acquia, Episerver, CrownPeak, Progress,…

Coding: The Elusive Goal of Bug Free

By Dick Weisinger

The goal of bug free software is unattainable, at least for software beyond a few hundred lines of code. That doesn’t mean that we should give up because perfection is out of reach; it’s just a recognition of reality. Sometimes…