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Cloud Computing: Container Technology to Shrink Wasted Cloud Resources

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud infrastructure spending grew by 14.4 percent year over year in the fourth quarter 2014 to $8 billion, according to IDC.  Cloud infrastructure includes server, disk storage, and ethernet switches. But much of the money spent on cloud computing has been…

Cloud Computing: Most New Manufacturing Apps are On-Premise with “Cloud Also” Hooks

By Dick Weisinger

Two-thirds of global manufacturing are using the cloud for at least two of their applications.  66 percent are making some use of the public cloud and 68 percent are using a private cloud, according to a report from IDC. IDC…

Internet of Things (IoT): Forcing Traditional Businesses to Redefine Who They Are and What They Do

By Dick Weisinger

The Internet of Things is making a lot of traditional businesses rethink exactly what their business is and how they create and deliver products and services. Jeffrey Kaplan, directory of THINKStrategies, wrote that “hardware and software is now being embedded…

Collaboration: Can Cloud and Mobile Team to Create a Challenge to Email?

By Dick Weisinger

For more than the last decade email has been the primary tool used by businesses for collaboration.  While there have been many attempts to create technology that can make people more productive and stay attuned to business requirements, there haven’t…

Security: Hacked Data Spreads “Staggeringly” Quickly

By Dick Weisinger

You might have heard of the “Dark Web”, a realm of the internet where hackers rule and can communicate among themselves. Recently the company Bitglass did an experiment to see the extent of the reach of the Dark Web.  Bitglass…