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Cloud Computing: Is Microsoft's Azure Number One?

By Dick Weisinger

By most measures, Amazon’s AWS service tops all cloud computing services.  It is Amazon’s AWS that supports NASA’s recent Mars rover exploration.  And AWS is used by hundreds of thousands of companies in 190 countries.  Many high-profile companies are like

Cloud Computing: Customers Experience Buyer's Remorse with their Infrastructure Purchases

By Dick Weisinger

A study by research group Savvis highlights differences businesses in different countries are to accept outsourcing IT operations to the cloud.  In many cases. acceptance is tied to cultural differences. For example, globally, businesses currently are outsourcing one quarter of

Cloud Computing: The Future of IT Spending is with the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

Global ICT (Information and Communications Technology) spending growth in 2012 is expected to come in at just 2.5 percent (currency adjusted), or about $3.6 trillion.  That’s based on the research and forecasting of IDC. The report shows that growth has

Cloud Computing: Restrictive Laws in Europe Slow Cloud Growth

By Dick Weisinger

A recent survey of US consumers found that nearly 90 percent of Americans have used cloud services in some way, although many don’t realize that they’re using the cloud.  In fact, many didn’t know what ‘the cloud’ is, with more

Cloud Computing: What Does it Mean to Be an Open Cloud?

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprises have long been captives of traditional on-premise software.  They’ve been trapped by vendors because  the expense and difficulty of migrating to a competitor is not a viable alternative.  So it comes as no surprise that as businesses gradually migrate