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SaaS and Cloud Computing: Trusting Even Your Mission-Critical Information to the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner recently released a study on SaaS that describes a dichotomy of how businesses approach the technology.  One set of businesses are avoiding SaaS because they’re worried about losing control of critical or sensitive information.  But, most organizations that have

Cloud Computing 2015: Expect Strong Performances from REST, Docker and Hybrid Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

What can we expect will happen with cloud computing in 2015? Forrester has announced their predictions for the 2015 cloud which include: Microsoft cloud revenues will trump Microsoft on-premise revenues – Microsoft Azure is seeing gangbuster growth.  While Microsoft cloud revenues

Cloud Computing: The Rise of the Mega Datacenter

By Dick Weisinger

Data centers as we know them are rapidly changing and, in many cases, and will actually start to disappear.  IDC is predicting that the total number of data centers will peak in 2017 at 8.6 million.  After that, even though

Cloud Computing: What’s the Real Cost of the Cloud?

By Dick Weisinger

451 Research recently set off on the task to try to determine the real costs involved in operating an application in the cloud.  As part of this process, 451 created a price index that measures all costs involved in operating

Cloud Computing: Cloud Spending to Surpass OnPremise by 2018

By Dick Weisinger

Global IT continues to move to the cloud. A new IDC report estimates that in just three years more than half of money spent on software, servers and storage will be attributed to the cloud. Between now and 2018, cloud spending