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Docker Containers: The Rise of Container Infrastructure

By Dick Weisinger

It’s hard to keep up with technology.  But that’s not stopping businesses from trying.  Only two years after the initial release of the open-source Docker project, already 70 percent of companies say that they’re either already using it or evaluating

Shadow IT and the Cloud: European Shadow IT Adopt US Cloud Services

By Dick Weisinger

It’s widely believed that US companies are having a hard time making inroads in selling cloud-based products in Europe because of a variety of regulations and privacy laws.  But that hasn’t stopped many European businesses from using US cloud services.

Cloud Computing: Executives Turn to the Cloud to Achieve Business Transformation

By Dick Weisinger

The cloud market is expected to grow from its $58 billion market size in 2013 to more than $191 billion by 2020, based on Forrester data presented in a recent KPGM report. How are businesses using the cloud to achieve

SMAC: Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

Convergence of new technologies.  IDC calls it the ‘Third Platform’.  Gartner refers to the “Nexus of Forces“.  Forrester talks about the Mobile Mind Shift.  Yet another term or buzzword, and one that is used frequently by CapGemini,   is SMAC

IDC’s 3rd Platform: Predictions on the Direction of the Cloud, Big Data and Mobile in 2015

By Dick Weisinger

IDC recently released their predictions for the direction of IT in 2015.  These include: Within the ICT segment, one third of the spending will be on what IDC calls ‘3rd platform‘.  IDC refers to technologies like Cloud Computing, Big Data,