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Cloud Computing: The Rise of the Mega Datacenter

By Dick Weisinger

Data centers as we know them are rapidly changing and, in many cases, and will actually start to disappear.  IDC is predicting that the total number of data centers will peak in 2017 at 8.6 million.  After that, even though…

Cloud Computing: What’s the Real Cost of the Cloud?

By Dick Weisinger

451 Research recently set off on the task to try to determine the real costs involved in operating an application in the cloud.  As part of this process, 451 created a price index that measures all costs involved in operating…

Internet of Things (IoT): Billions of Things, Trillions of Dollars

By Dick Weisinger

By 2020 expect there to be a lot of devices connected to the internet — with the emphasis here on ‘a lot’.  Analysts and businesses can’t quite decide, but the number will be very big. Last year, Gartner predicted by 2020 there…

Cloud Computing: Cloud Spending to Surpass OnPremise by 2018

By Dick Weisinger

Global IT continues to move to the cloud. A new IDC report estimates that in just three years more than half of money spent on software, servers and storage will be attributed to the cloud. Between now and 2018, cloud spending…

Mobile: CIOs Increase Enterprise Investments in Mobility

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprises are expected to increase mobility spending by 50 percent over the next 24 months, based on a survey conducted by CIO and sponsored by Oracle. Some of the other findings from the survey of more than 400 CIOs are…