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Cloud Computing: Spending Up, but Managing Costs is Difficult

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud computing showed a 21.7 percent year over year growth rate in the fourth quarter 2017, according to IDC.  The estimates include contributions from both the public and private cloud. The industries that are spending the most on the cloud

Multi-Cloud: Added Security and Control Complexities Outweigh Potential Feature Benefits

By Dick Weisinger

On average, mid to large companies are using five different cloud platforms for operations across their businesses, according to a study by Rightscale. Using more than one cloud platform has the advantage of choosing the best of breed for specific

Cloud Computing: NSF Teams with Cloud Vendors for Data Research Problems

By Dick Weisinger

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that it will provide $30 million in funding of data science and big data projects under a program grant that they’re calling BIGDATA.  Additionally, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) are

Cloud Computing: Private Cloud is Just Another Name for On-Premise

By Dick Weisinger

Building a Private Cloud has been the objective of many mid to large companies that want the operational flexibility and quick scalability promised by public cloud vendors and that also want to be able to closely control their data to

Cloud Computing: Cloud Vendors Spend Big to Grow Their Business

By Dick Weisinger

Right now there’s no end in sight for the expected growth in the cloud computing market. Brent Bracelin, KeyBanc Capital Markets analyst, predicts that currently the public cloud market is worth about $106 billion and will grow to more than $314