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Cloud Computing: Profile of Cloud-Adopter Companies

By Dick Weisinger

There is a strong correlation between the culture of a company and how a company approaches the cloud.  An excellent white paper by  Michael Heric, Ron Kermisch and Stephen Bertrand of Bain & Company examines company cultures in relation to the

Cloud Computing: The Evolution of Cloud Standards

By Dick Weisinger

The good news is that there seems to be near universal agreement, excluding perhaps from public cloud-leader Amazon (although Amazon might be considered the de facto standard), that standards are important for the future success of cloud computing.  The problem

Cloud Computing: Security Concerns Blown out of Proportion?

By Dick Weisinger

The main themes at the DreamForce 2011 event sponsored by Salesforce.com in San Francisco were social, mobile and the cloud. On the cloud theme, Vivek Kundra,  and in his  last few days as Federal IT CIO, said at DreamForce that it is ‘ridiculous’ for

Cloud Computing: Uncovering the Hidden Costs of the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud Computing can offer significant advantages over traditional on-premise computing, but those benefits don’t always come as cheaply as they might appear on the surface. Some ‘hidden’ or unanticipated cloud computing costs include the following: Bandwidth costs and limitations –

Cloud Computing: Fear of Change Makes Many Organizations Hesitant

By Dick Weisinger

At a recent Gartner summit in Sydney, Massimo Pezzini, Gartner Fellow and vice president, commented that by “2016, over 50 per cent of all business application independent software providers (ISVs) would be pure software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers.”  It’s comments like this