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Cloud Computing: IaaS Offers Few Cost Savings, but Provides Greater Agility

By Dick Weisinger

“Cloud [computing] has three technological aspects — infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and finally software-as-a-service (SaaS),” says Fabrizio Biscotti, research director at analyst firm Gartner. Gartner calls Cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) the “computing” part of “cloud computing,” and considers it the

Cloud Computing Security: Can the Cloud Ever Be More Secure than On-Premise?

By Dick Weisinger

On one hand there is a widely held belief that, by its very nature, data stored in the cloud is not as secure as data managed on-premise.   That sentiment plays front and center with warnings like the one from Francis

Cloud Computing: Cloud-Standard Alliances Unite

By Dick Weisinger

The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) and The Green Grid (TGG) alliance have announced that they’re joining forces in their efforts to create standards for the cloud. The Green Grid is a non-profit, open industry consortium of end-users, policy-makers, technology

Cloud Computing: Rapid Adoption by SMB's of Cloud and Virtualization Technologies

By Dick Weisinger

For Small and Medium sized businesses (SMB), the world of cloud computing has arrived.  Now more than half of SMB’s are using the cloud for some part of their computing environment, and even a higher percentage (61 percent) of SMB’s

Cloud Computing: Predictions for the Cloud of the Future

By Dick Weisinger

There is a growing consensus that cloud computing will become a major component of It strategies in the future.  In many cases, it already is a major component, if not a major topic of discussion. CapGemini: “The Cloud is inevitable.”