By Dick Weisinger, on August 30th, 2010
The benefits of cloud computing include flexibility and cost savings. Scalability of resources is really the key to its popularity of the cloud. The traditional approach to infrastructure divvies up servers and processing power based on the applications running in the organization. Resources become dedicated to applications, and usually, to allow room for growth, [...]
By Dick Weisinger, on August 25th, 2010
Gartner is forecasting a 16.9 percent growth of revenues generated from global cloud services this year compared to 2009 revenues. The expected 2010 global cloud service revenue is $68.3 billion. The Gartner projection is to reach $148.8 billion in 2014. IDC has a growth forecast with the same basic trend, but they predict the global [...]
By Dick Weisinger, on August 17th, 2010
To understand anything better, a good idea is to break the concept down into smaller components. And Cloud Computing is one area that a lot of people really would like to understand better. The Gartner Group has tried to do that by dissecting the meaning of Business Intelligence in the Cloud, or what Gartner calls [...]