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Third Platform Nexus: IT Shifts Towards Platforms Based on New Converging Technologies

By Dick Weisinger

Technology is changing the way business is done and people work.   Mobile computing, social media, cloud computing, big data,and the Internet of Things (IoT) are each having huge impacts on people’s lives, and collectively, these technologies are reforming much

Cloud Computing: Cisco to Spend $1 Billion to Build a ‘Star Alliance’ of Cloud Technology Leaders

By Dick Weisinger

Cisco has announced that it plans to spend $1 billion over the next two years in order to create a public cloud offering that they’re calling the “Intercloud“.  The new service would compete against similar services offered by Amazon Web Services

New Language of Computing Programming: Google Go

By Dick Weisinger

Google’s Go open-source programming language is slowly growing mindshare.  Some are calling it a language made for the cloud.  The Go language is being used in popular projects like Heroku’s Force.com, Packer.io, and Docker. But the Go language wasn’t originally created with aspirations for the

Cloud Computing: Businesses Continue to Move Data to the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

Nearly one third (31 percent) of companies have more than 40 percent of their workloads running on internal clouds, according to the respondents of a recent ODCA (Open Data Center Alliance) survey.  That’s expected to grow to 70 percent by

SaaS and Cloud Computing: Adopters Report Greater Flexibility, Simplified Operations, and Cost Savings

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses that have moved to the cloud are spending more than 15 percent less than the average spend on IT from over the last twenty years.  That’s the result of a study conducted by Computer Economics. Considering that IT budgets