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Cloud Computing: Spending Expected To Double Over Next Four Years

By Dick Weisinger

Global IT spending over the next year is expected to be in the range of $3.6 trillion, a three percent increase over the previous year’s $3.5 trillion.  That’s the forecast from Gartner Research. Gartner thinks that spending will remain relatively

Cloud Computing: OpenStack Hopes to Build a Challenge to Amazon

By Dick Weisinger

OpenStack, the Open Source software for building out cloud infrastructure, has recently passed the two year milestone.  While OpenStack is not the only option for creating a cloud (alternatives include CloudStack, Eucalyptus and VMWare’s vCloud Director), it’s the one that

Cloud Computing: Businesses Favor Private Clouds

By Dick Weisinger

Increasingly businesses are shifting their infrastructures to include some component of cloud computing.  Many businesses are risk adverse in their approach and wary of adopting services hosted in the public cloud.  In fact, more than half of businesses working with

Cloud Computing: In Four Years, One-Third of all Consumer Data Will Be In the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

Currently about 7 percent of all consumer content is stored in the cloud.  Gartner says that this is changing rapidly and that by 2016 36 percent of all consumer data will be stored in the cloud.  A key factor in

Cloud Computing: FedRAMP gears up for First Round of Vendor Testing

By Dick Weisinger

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a government-wide program that is run by the GSA and which provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services.  Security is one of