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IT Spending Drops as Business Shift from Traditional Infrastructure to Mobile and Cloud Computing

By Dick Weisinger

JP Morgan has cut the IT spending budget of businesses for the remainder of 2013.  The two main reasons are a drop in the number PC being bought and a shift in spending away from traditional IT infrastructure to the

Wearable Technology: Powered by the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

The global wearable technology market was only about $750 million in 2012, but the wearable technology market is expected to grow to $5.8 billion by 2018. 82 percent of wearers of technology say that the devices have enhanced their lives, although

Cloud Computing: Economies of Scale Make the Cloud Greener (or at least less Gray)

By Dick Weisinger

Is cloud computing Green?  Google says ‘yes’. Consider three businesses: a small business that runs its own servers to host email for 50 users, a medium-sized business that host its own email with 500 users, and internally hosted email for

Cloud Computing: Oracle report Points to Cloud App Integration Issues

By Dick Weisinger

The ride to the cloud hasn’t necessarily been a smooth one for all businesses.  Oracle recently commissioned a report from Dynamic Markets to study the success with which the cloud is being deployed in the enterprise.  A key focus of

Cloud Computing: Business Move to the 'Third Platform' — the Nexus of Forces

By Dick Weisinger

First there were mainframes, and after that there were PC’s.  In this progression of computing technology, IDC identifies the next phase of computing as a combination of cloud computing, mobile devices and Big Data.  IDC refers to this next generation