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Cloud Computing: IT Vendors Need to Adopt the Cloud to Remain Relevant

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud computing is expected to grow to be a $9.4 billion market by 2015.  IDC and IDG Enterprise issued a report last month that provided that estimate, with about a third of the revenues going to the public cloud, and

Cloud Computing: SaaS Market to Double by 2015

By Dick Weisinger

In 2010, the worldwide SaaS market was $10 billion.  And at the current annual growth rate of more than 20 percent, the SaaS market is on target to more than double by 2015 to $21.3 billion, predicts Gartner, Inc in

Green Clouds: The Efficiencies of Cloud Computing

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud computing has the potential to be more environmentally friendly than existing data centers.  Doug Washburn and Lauren Nelson, analysts at Forrester Research, recently identified at least three ways that cloud computing can be considered as more ‘green’ than traditional

Cloud Computing: Growing 4x Faster Than Other Segments of IT Market

By Dick Weisinger

IDC is forecasting a scorching annual growth rate of 27.6 percent for Cloud Computing over the next four years.   That means that today’s $21.5 billion Cloud Computing market will grow to $72.9 billion by 2015.  That is four times

IT: Is it Dead or is it Vital for Business Survival?

By Dick Weisinger

Last year ComputerWorld declared that ‘IT is dead‘, and many industry pundits have agreed.  Increasingly cloud and mobile technologies enablesmany groups within organizations to end run IT, marginalizing both the IT department and the CIO.  So the results of a