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Cloud Storage: The On-going War to Lock in the Most Customers

By Dick Weisinger

Forrester calculated and compared the costs of storing 100 terabytes of data with on-premise storage versus cloud storage and found that the cloud option came in at 74 percent cheaper than the on-premise solution.  Those results appeared in a whitepaper…

SaaS: Vendors find that Customer Service is a Vital Element in Retaining Customers

By Dick Weisinger

More than half of small and medium sized businesses are using SaaS and another 37 percent say that they plan to begin using SaaS services within the next two years.  That’s the result of a survey by Enterprise Strategy Group…

Cloud Computing: Global Adoption Rates Differ — Security, Regulatory, and Hidden Cost Concerns

By Dick Weisinger

Global views on the cloud differ significantly.  The cloud is seeing high rates of acceptance in the US, elsewhere others are more sceptical.  Maybe others are more rational?  Or are they simply being left behind? When comparing the US and…

IT Policies: Businesses See Value in BYOD, but are Slow to Revamp Policies

By Dick Weisinger

60 percent of workers now use personal computing devices at their workplace, according to a survey by Avanade, a venture company backed by Accenture and Microsoft.  Additionally, half of the respondents say that more than half of their workers use…

Big Data: Sizing the Big Data Market 2013-2016

By Dick Weisinger

The size of the Big Data market is growing annually at a rate of 31.7 percent and is expected to reach $23.8 billion by 2016, according to IDC.  But that doesn’t include some market segments like analytics and SaaS products.…