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Cloud Computing: Enterprises lean towards Private Clouds

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud computing is a utility-like computing resource that can scale dynamically and provide virtualized computing resources. Cloud computering users need not have any knowledge or expertise in the underlying infrastructure that supports them. And a big benefit of cloud computing…

Storage: World's Data Doubles every 18 Months

By Dick Weisinger

For the past three years IDC Research has been counting how much digital data exists in the world, and they’ve found that in each of those years their estimates for the year has needed to be revised upwards.  New numbers…

SaaS: APIs — Pathway to the Enterprise

By Dick Weisinger

SaaS as a concept is growing in acceptance.  But one stumbling block that it keeping it from gaining wide-spread acceptance in the enterprise is the difficulty in integrating components that are hosted remotely.  The key to being able to gain…

Cloud Computing: Next Buzz for On-Demand is AppStores

By Dick Weisinger

The success of the Apple AppStore — One Billion Apps sold to a base of 21 million iPhone users — has got people thinking about how to create an AppStore of their own.  At recent conferences of Interop and the…

Technology: SAP Fails with On-Demand ERP

By Dick Weisinger

SAP’s three effort to capture its share of the cloud is so far a failure. The SAP on-demand timeline goes something like this: Feb, 2006  — SAP announces that they will add an on-demand-option available via subscription Jan, 2007 —…