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Security and the Cloud: Moving Data to the Cloud Multiplies the Cost of Security Breaches

By Dick Weisinger

The cost of a security breach in a cloud apps is generally significantly more expensive to remedy compared to a similar app running on-premise — as much as three times more expensive, based on a study by the Ponemon Institute

Cloud Computing: The Containerization of Apps

By Dick Weisinger

Docker, the ‘Linux Container Engine’, is open-source Linux technology that can package all components needed by an application into a single container which can then be easily moved between cloud platforms, virtual machines, or physical bare-metal servers.  Docker allows software

Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud Computing: There can only be One

By Dick Weisinger

‘There can only be one’, said Scott Sanchez, Lead Cloud Evangelist at Rackspace, invoking the cult fantasy film The Highlander, when explaining the direction of cloud computing.  Sanchez notes that while there are many cloud vendor brands, creating a landscape of differing

Shadow IT and Cloud Computing: Users Take Risks for Better Productivity

By Dick Weisinger

Shadow IT is the introduction and use of non-approved IT systems inside organizations.  It is a grass-roots effort by employees to use tools and applications that they think can help them get their jobs done more quickly or more efficiently

Cloud Computing: Drop in Cloud Pricing Encourage Enterprises to Consume and Spend Even More

By Dick Weisinger

Here are some updated cloud facts: Even while cloud prices continue a relentless drop in price, overall spending on the cloud continues to accelerate. Lower prices entice new enterprise customers into using the cloud. Both large and medium-sized businesses plan