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Cloud Computing: Top Priority for CIOs

By Dick Weisinger

Over the last two years, the number of CIO’s that said that they are ready to begin active use of the cloud has jumped from about 30 percent to now more than 60 percent.  These CIOs say that using the

Cloud Computing: Big Benefits, But not Without Risks

By Dick Weisinger

After declining by 5.1 percent in 2009, the IT service market grew 3.1 percent in 2010.  Total IT Service sales for 2010 came in at $793 billion.  It is a huge market, and one that Gartner predicts will undergo big

Cloud Computing: Like-Minded Organizations Band Together to Create Semi-Private Clouds — Community Clouds

By Dick Weisinger

While public cloud offerings from companies like Amazon and Google have become symbols of cloud computing technology, many organizations worry about the risks involved in storing data in the public cloud.  The alternative for many companies is a private cloud.

Open Source: Companies to Spend More than Half of IT Software Budget on Free Open Source

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source is supposed to be free, so it is interesting to note that a new survey finds that by 2016, on average, 56 percent of IT budgets for software will be going towards Open Source software.  That comment is

Cloud: Alternative Cloud Roadmaps, Getting from Here to There

By Dick Weisinger

If you’re currently investigating how your organization can begin taking advantage of using the cloud, in a new white paper Gartner outlines a framework to use that gets you started down a suitable path of investigation. Gartner generalizes five different