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Enterprise IT: The Unexpected Costs of the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

The cloud is great. Except when the cost to use it isn’t. Understanding and controlling cloud costs can be extremely challenging, especially for businesses when first moving from on-premise to the cloud. The cloud makes so many things easier to

Cloud Computing: Improving Security Controls with Zero Trust and Confidential Computing

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud computing has been called flexible, scalable, and highly resilient. And its popularity has propelled it forward with large double-digit growth rates. But what about security? The cloud is frequently touted as being more secure than on-premise computing. Vendors supply

Cloud Computing: Smaller Cloud Vendors Compete for Market Share

By Dick Weisinger

Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud are the three big names in the US for cloud vendors. But recently alternatives are becoming available. A lot of them. For example: Oracle Cloud, IBM Cloud, Linode, DigitalOcean, Rackspace, and OVHCloud. The

Cloud Computing: From Idiocy to Indispensable

By Dick Weisinger

Over the last decade, cloud computing has gone from “idiocy” to “indispensable”. In 2008, Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, said that “the interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do…

Cloud Computing: Enterprises Begin to Weight Sustainability Criterion Higher

By Dick Weisinger

All the major tech titans describe their cloud computing offerings as sustainable, for example: Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. Can we really believe that the mammoth data centers from these giants are energy-efficient sustainable operations? If you compare the carbon footprint