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Cloud Computing: Half of IT Infrastructure Spending to be on the Cloud by 2019

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud Computing continues on a tear as IDC reports their estimates for 2015 cloud spending.  Roughly one-third of all IT infrastructure spending will be on the cloud this year.  Total cloud spending will reach $32 billion this year, an increase

Cloud Computing: Near-Term Prediction of Cloud Trends

By Dick Weisinger

In a little more than a decade since Salesforce.com first announced their vision of a “no software” world, cloud computing has seen incredible growth.  Early-on doubters like Oracle’s Larry Ellison have made an about face from disparaging the technology to

Containers: Competitors to Docker Begin to Rise

By Dick Weisinger

Container packaging has been the rage over the past year.  Containerization has the potential to be highly disruptive to existing server virtualization, impacting existing businesses like VMware.  Containers are more efficient, lighter-weight, and speedier, and easier to automate than standard

Cloud Computing: Container Technology to Shrink Wasted Cloud Resources

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud infrastructure spending grew by 14.4 percent year over year in the fourth quarter 2014 to $8 billion, according to IDC.  Cloud infrastructure includes server, disk storage, and ethernet switches. But much of the money spent on cloud computing has been

Cloud Computing: Most New Manufacturing Apps are On-Premise with “Cloud Also” Hooks

By Dick Weisinger

Two-thirds of global manufacturing are using the cloud for at least two of their applications.  66 percent are making some use of the public cloud and 68 percent are using a private cloud, according to a report from IDC. IDC