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Cloud Computing: Many Trust, but how Can they Verify?

By Dick Weisinger

“Trust but verify” — it is a phrase used by Ronald Reagan in his nuclear weapons negotiations with the former Soviet Union.  It’s actually a Russian proverb, and it is increasingly being used to describe how businesses should approach their

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

Infrastructure as a Service: Four Vendors Dominate IaaS Market

By Dick Weisinger

Four vendors dominate the Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market, according to a study by Gartner: Amazon AWS, Microsoft, Alibaba, and Google.  The global IaaS market grew nearly 30 percent in 2017, reaching $23.5 billion. Sid Nag, research

Cloud Computing: Rise in Cloud IT Spending Prove that CIOs Believe in the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

CIOs are spending a lot on Enterprise IT, near record highs, according to a study by Goldman Sachs. What are they spending their dollars on?  Security ranks number one.  Followed by SaaS, Business Intelligence and Analytics, and the public cloud.