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Cloud Computing: Five Trends For the Cloud in 2012

By Dick Weisinger

David Cearley, vice president and Gartner fellow said that “Cloud computing is a major technology trends that has permeated the market over the last two years.” Gartner identifies the following five trends now occurring in the cloud computing market: Cloud customers

Cloud Computing: Too Risky for Mission Critical?

By Dick Weisinger

Most analysts are convinced that companies have moved or are moving to the cloud in a big way. Forrester says that sometime this year we will have reached the point where 50 percent of companies are using some form of

Cloud Computing: Additional Complexity in Testing Web Applications

By Dick Weisinger

Testing and ensuring the quality of experience (QoE) of a web solution isn’t easy.  It goes beyond the testing of just the content and feature set of the web application.  It must also consider load and stress testing, security, performance

Cloud Security: Lax Security Controls Make Many Organizations Vulnerable to Breaches

By Dick Weisinger

What you don’t know, or don’t investigate deeply enough, can hurt you.  Especially when it comes to security controls for cloud computing.  Many companies are entrusting highly sensitive and confidential data to the cloud, but they haven’t dug deeply enough

Federal Cloud Computing: Cloud Readiness Varies Widely Across Agencies

By Dick Weisinger

Overall, across all of federal government, cloud acceptance and adoption is expected to quite fast.  A report by CDW found that as of the summer of 2011 already 41 percent of federal government agencies had a written plan in place