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Cloud Computing: Slashed Budgets and Increased Storage Demands Challenge IT Managers

By Dick Weisinger

Managers of IT departments told Navisite in a recent survey on Cloud Computing that their biggest challenges now include: How to build a cloud strategy How to deal with slashed budgets How to handle the storage of huge amounts of

Cloud Computing: Organizations Typically Use Two or More Cloud Vendors

By Dick Weisinger

The use of Cloud Computing continues to grow among organizations of all sizes. An InformationWeek survey on the State of Cloud Computing in 2013 reports the following statistics: 66 percent of organizations are juggling between two to five different cloud

Mobile and SaaS CRM: Explosive Growth of Mobile CRM Apps

By Dick Weisinger

CRM is moving to mobile.  Gartner is predicting that between now and the end of next year that there will be a 500 percent growth in the number of mobile CRM apps available.  Currently app stores have about 200 CRM

Cloud Computing: Businesses Diversify their Cloud Portfolios

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses continue to increase their investments in the cloud.  A recent survey by RightScale investigates the extent to which the cloud is being used. The RightScale survey divided their respondents into four groups: Cloud Beginners (26 percent) – Businesses just

Cloud Computing: The Tricky Business of Hot Upgrades

By Dick Weisinger

Jay Heiser, Gartner research vice president, told Ellen Messmer of Network World that “Gartner clients are almost universally disappointed by what they regard as the incompleteness in cloud-computing contracts where they still don’t see the level of specificity related to