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Cloud Continuity: Disaster Planning for Cloud Disruptions

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud computing elements are increasingly being architected as a key piece of business continuity plans.  With the cloud, even if office buildings burn down, data is still safe in the cloud. The problem is though, what if something happens to your

Cloud Computing: The Average Company Will Have More Than Half of their IT Operations in the Cloud in 2016

By Dick Weisinger

Another report, this time from IDG, finds that cloud computing technology is widespread in usage across companies.  In the survey, 72 percent of companies say that they have at least one application in the cloud.  56 percent of businesses say

Cloud Computing: Amazon, Microsoft, IBM and Google Lead the Pack as Competitors Consolidate

By Dick Weisinger

It’s been ten years since Amazon AWS launched in 2006 and pioneered cloud computing as we know it.  During that time many other vendors have tried to jump in and claim part of the cloud market share, but going into 2016

Cloud Computing: Cloud Technology is now the Norm and Competitive Advantage From Its Use is Shrinking

By Dick Weisinger

The world has passed you by if you haven’t yet moved to the cloud, according to a new report by Verizon.  Verizon claims that so many companies have adopted cloud technologies that using the cloud really no longer provides that

Storage: Cisco Predicts Mass Migration of Data from Local PCs to Cloud and non-PC devices by 2019

By Dick Weisinger

The volume of cloud traffic is exploding.  Cisco estimates that in 2015 total global cloud traffic will be on the order of 2.1 Zettabytes (ZB), and they predict that cloud traffic will grow to 8.6 zettabytes by 2019.  Cloud traffic