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Cloud Computing: Tariff War May Impact US Cloud Costs

By Dick Weisinger

Tariff wars may be coming to the cloud. Part of the proposed tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese products include network hardware, like routers, switches, servers, motherboards, memory modules and coaxial cables.  A tariff on Chinese goods could range from 10

Serverless Computing: Re-engineering the Cloud to be ‘Serverless’

By Dick Weisinger

Serverless computing doesn’t mean that there aren’t servers.  It means that the infrastructure needed to be provisioned in order to run computing jobs is automatic.  The focus is on the application or service and not on the server hardware or

Containers: Is it Madness or a Stroke of Vision at this Point to Leave Behind the World of Installers?

By Dick Weisinger

Applications are migrating to containers. One vendor example is Alfresco, maker of ECM and Digital Transformation software.  Alfresco’s next product release is currently planned to be only on Docker containers. Alfresco’s approach could be early-adopter madness or visionary, a sort

Cloud Computing: 2017 Marked a Turning Point for Cloud Computing

By Dick Weisinger

$117 billion was spent on public cloud services in 2017.  Spending last year grew 29 percent from the previous year, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). That 29 percent is down slightly from the previous year.  Of note was the

Cloud Computing and Business Intelligence: Businesses Can’t Get Enough

By Dick Weisinger

The use of the cloud for business intelligence (BI) is growing strongly, particularly by small organizations and within the financial services industry, according to a survey by Dresner Advisory Services.  Adoption is nearly double compared to 2016. Sales and Marketing