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Mobile: To Survive Small Businesses Must Embrace Cloud and Mobile in 2014

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud and Mobile are shaping up to be the two technology tools that many small businesses plan to adopt in 2014 in hopes of propelling their businesses forward. Cloud computing will help small businesses (SMBs) save money and more effectively

Cloud Computing: Consolidation to Wipe Away a Quarter of Existing Top 100 Vendors

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner is predicting a major reconsolidation of cloud vendors, so much so that by 2015 25 percent of today’s top 100 IT cloud service vendors will be gone.  That presents a certain amount of risks to the buyers of these

Cloud Computing: NSA Spying Worries Expected to Temper Cloud Growth in 2014

By Dick Weisinger

News of NSA snooping on data stored by major US cloud services will cost US business $22 billion through 2016, estimates the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF).  Forrester estimates the costs at significantly higher — $180 billion.  Cisco also

Enterprise Software: IT Trends for 2014: Nexus of Forces, Migrations from On-Premise to Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

The combination of Social, Mobile, Analytics, and the cloud are creating an intertwined set of new technologies that Gartner is calling the “Nexus of Forces.” Tom Eid, Research Vice President at Gartner, said that “starting in 2014, enterprise software markets will

Cloud Computing: Even Half of CPA’s Now Say They’ve Adopted the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

The speed of Cloud Acceptance sometimes seems astounding.  I was surprised to see a recent survey that found that nearly half of CPA’s have already adopted some form of cloud computing.  CPA’s tend to be conservative and highly risk adverse