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Enterprise Security: Cloud and Outsourced IT Operations Bring Risks

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud software is increasingly attracting businesses to move more of the infrastructure and services outside of their IT oversight.  That decision can bring efficiencies, associated cost savings, and often better quality.  But Gartner says that the tradeoff for moving IT

Cloud Computing: Data Centers Designed for Hyperscale Have Potential for Dramatic Energy Savings

By Dick Weisinger

In 2014 data centers in the United States used 70 billion kWH about 1.8 percent of all energy consumption and enough to power about 6.4 million homes peryear, according to a report from Lawrence Berkeley National Labs (LBNL).  Data centers have

Cloud Computing: 50 Percent Growth in First Quarter

By Dick Weisinger

The cloud computing market grew at a breakneck rate of 50 percent during the first quarter of 2016.  In just those three months, $7 billion was spent on cloud services, according to a report by Synergy research. John Dinsdale, Synergy’s

Software Development: IoT, Machine Learning and Cloud are Hot Technologies Now for App Developers

By Dick Weisinger

What are app developers focused on today?  A global survey of developers from Evans Data asked just that question. Not too unexpectedly, the survey found that the following technology areas were hot: Machine Learning (24.7 percent) Internet of Things (45

Containers: Great Idea, but Large-Scale Management of a Container Environment is Complex

By Dick Weisinger

Docker containers have become a popular way to streamline the environment that a self-contained application can run in.  (Docker currently has 94 percent of the container market.) Container technology is hot and it is being used increasingly by  enterprises to