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Cloud Computing: A Long-Term Strategy Rather Than Short-Term Tactical One

By Dick Weisinger

The cloud is the number one technology that IT professionals say will impact their companies, according to a recent study by Pluribus.  The cloud is rated higher than other technologies like desktop virtualization and converged infrastructures. 14 percent of IT

Cloud Computing and SaaS: SaaS Takes on Ever Greater Percentages of IT Budgets

By Dick Weisinger

Ernst and Young Transaction Advisory Service recently performed a survey of nearly 200 IT managers and CIOs. The survey found that SaaS is increasingly being used by businesses and is expected to take a growing share of the IT budget.

Cloud Computing: Still a Long Ways to Go to Before Cloud Used Heavily in Critical Production Environments

By Dick Weisinger

Most businesses now use the cloud, or at least won’t admit to anything otherwise.  A recent survey by CompTIA found that 90 percent of businesses say that they’re using the cloud. Another survey by RightScale found that of the businesses

Cloud Computing: Half of Enterprises will have Production Workloads Running in the Cloud within the Next Year

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprise production computing is moving to the cloud rapidly.  A report from 451 Research expects that within two years more than half of enterprises will have at least some of their production workloads in the cloud.  Today already the number

Cloud Computing: Security isn’t a Problem, but Using Clouds in a Secure Way Is

By Dick Weisinger

The market size of the cloud services sector is expected to increase 17.2 percent in 2016 from $178 billion last year to $208.6 billion this year, according to a recent third-quarter report by Gartner.  Businesses are primarily being driven by