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IT Spending: Financing New Initiatives by Reducing IT Waste

By Dick Weisinger

How much are businesses spending on IT? 8.2 percent of revenue, according to a report by Flexera. And even slightly more, 9.3 percent of revenue, for businesses with more than 10,000 employees. Top priorities for spending include: Digital Transformation Cybersecurity

Cloud Computing: Businesses Build Multi-Cloud Strategies

By Dick Weisinger

Multi-cloud computing is the combination of public cloud environments from multiple cloud vendors. For example, AWS might be used for networking and Azure is used for database services. An IBM survey found that 85 percent of organizations are using a

Cloud Security: Problems Arise from Lack of Planning and Training

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses will spend more than $100 billion globally this year on security, according to analyst firm IDC. Increasingly, more of those budgets are directed towards cloud security. Cloud security in 2018 accounted for 18 percent of the total, but it

Security: Keeping In-Process Data Confidential

By Dick Weisinger

Data security. There are three data-protection scenarios for securing data in the cloud: Data at rest. Data in transit. Data in use. Traditionally the focus on data protection has been with data at rest and data in transit. Keeping data

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