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Industry Cloud Computing: Vertical Cloud Solutions that Go Beyond Just IT Services

By Dick Weisinger

An Industry cloud platform is a cloud platform that includes software and infrastructure that is configured and tuned to target the needs of a specific vertical industry. Gregor Petri, VP Analyst at Gartner, said that “in effect, industry cloud platforms

Cloud Waste: Stick to your Budget with Careful Monitoring of Usage Billings

By Dick Weisinger

44 percent of businesses say that their companies are wasting more than one-third of the money that they’re spending on cloud computing, according to a survey by Anodot. Gartner summarizes six reasons how businesses’ cloud budgets typically get blown: Ungoverned

Cloud Computing: Quality and Cataloging are Top Challenges When Managing Cloud Data

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses are moving their data to the cloud but are being faced with challenges managing their data once it is there. A report by Forrester on behalf of Capital One found that two huge challenges include data quality and data

Cloud Computing: Vulnerable to Climate Change

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud computing is often hailed for helping to offload less-efficient on-premise computing tasks. An IDC report estimated that as much as a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions could be eliminated by relocating computing workloads to more energy-efficient cloud-computing

Sky Computing: Making Multicloud a Piece of Cake

By Dick Weisinger

More than 94 percent of businesses are using at least one cloud service, according to Right Scale. And Statista estimates than more than 50 percent of corporate data is in the cloud. With businesses finally becoming comfortable with using the