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Serverless Computing: Are Containers ‘Stupid’?

By Dick Weisinger

From on-premise server hardware racks, to virtual machines, to cloud computing, and then containers, serverless computing is the next step forward in the evolution of IT infrastructure. Lately there have been questions about which is better: containers or serverless.  James…

Cloud Computing: IBM and Oracle Cloud Businesses Fail to Impress

By Dick Weisinger

Oracle and IBM.  Big names.  Big vendors.  But are they being dropped from the pack? Mark Murphy, analyst at JPMorgan, said in June 2018 that “only 6.5% of vendors voted for Oracle as being indispensable to their operations. At the…

Cloud Computing: Enterprise Increasingly Adopt Cloud but Cloud Management Complexity Begins to Sprawl

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprises believe in the cloud.  They are increasing their investment and growing their cloud environments.  Businesses see new technologies, particularly the cloud, as a way to drive their business forward.  According to a survey by IDG, nearly three-quarters of organizations…

Cloud Computing and Security: The Cloud Presents Huge Opportunities but Demands Vigilance to Ensure Security

By Dick Weisinger

Compared to most on-premise IT centers, cloud offerings from major vendors, are more secure.  Typically security problems are the result of improperly implemented policies.  Gartner estimates that 95 percent of cloud security failures are a result of the customer making…

Data Retention: Growth in Data Stresses Traditional Data Backups

By Dick Weisinger

It used to be that data retention policies were primarily centered on human-created documents and data.  With the growth of the internet and development of high-powered computers and sensors, that has all changed. Data generated by sensors and software is…