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Cloud Computing: Data Center Traffic to Triple in Five Years

By Dick Weisinger

Over the next five years, global data center IP traffic is expected to triple, based on the Global Cloud Index report from Cisco Systems, reaching 8.6 zetabytes (ZB or a trillion gigabytes) per year.  An Infographic illustrating Cisco’s findings is

Cloud Computing Security: Businesses Aren’t Proactive in Securing their Cloud Resources

By Dick Weisinger

Almost three quarters of organizations say that they’re having a hard time trying to protect sensitive data stored in the cloud, and nearly half say that it’s very difficult to restrict end-user access to data in the cloud.  70 percent

Cloud Computing Myths: What’s True and What isn’t about Cloud Hype?

By Dick Weisinger

While cloud computing is becoming ubiquitous, it’s often hard to know how much of the hype around the technology you should actually believe. David Mitchell Smith, vice president and fellow at Gartner, said that “cloud computing, by its very nature, is

Container Technology/Flocker: Simplifying the Migration of Apps and Data Servers

By Dick Weisinger

Moving an application installed on one machine to another one has traditionally been a tedious task.  But ClusterHQ provides an elegant solution to the problem that they’re calling Flocker, and today they are announcing an update to that solution, release 0.3.

Cloud Computing: Lower Costs and Greater Flexibility Lead Many Organizations to the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

What does it take for mid-sized companies to consider the cloud as a viable option to long-used on-premise solutions?  That’s the question that Aberdeen Group recently took up in work sponsored by IFS. Three reasons why mid-sized companies choose to