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Cloud Computing: Adoption Occurring at a Slower Pace than Expected

By Dick Weisinger

While cloud technology is clearly seeing wide acceptance and adoption, the rate of that adoption isn’t occurring as quickly as originally thought.  A recent study by Bitglass surveyed more than 81,000 different companies about their usage of cloud technologies. The

Cloud Computing and Security: More than Half of Sensitive Data Stored in the Cloud goes Unencrypted

By Dick Weisinger

The storage of sensitive data in the cloud is something that’s inevitable, say a majority of 4000 IT professionals.  More than half of those organizations actually are already using the cloud to store some amount of sensitive or confidential data.

Cloud Computing: Few Organizations Remain on the Fence as Cloud Adoption Jumps

By Dick Weisinger

In 2013 RightScale developed a Cloud Maturity Model that identified four categories of organizations relative to their use of the cloud: Cloud Watchers – developing strategies, but have no deployed cloud applications Cloud Beginners – organizations creating prototype cloud projects

Cloud Computing: Cloud Beginning to Shift to a Replacement of Rather than Complement to On-Premise

By Dick Weisinger

Forrester Research recently revised their forecast for the size of the public cloud market upwards by 20 percent than their 2011 estimate.  Forrester now says that public cloud computing will be a $191-billion market by 2020.  Their estimates changed after

Smart Government: Driven by Social, Mobile, Cloud and Information

By Dick Weisinger

Social, Mobile, Cloud and Information are transforming all parts of industry and society.  Gartner says that these four technologies will also have a transformative effect on governments worldwide, driving innovation that they’re calling ‘Smart Government’. At a recent conference in