Public vs Private Cloud The idea of a ‘private cloud’ has been with us for nearly 10 years now, yet surprisingly, a new analysis indicates that the growth of this [...]

Cloud Technology Trends When you are reading articles on the future of cloud technology trends on the Internet you cannot escape mention of the cloud: it is set to be [...]

Cloud Providers Scrutiny On Security Practices Few cloud users receive an open invitation from their cloud service provider to come audit them. But with new data privacy laws cropping up [...]

Data Center Design & Consolidation In the CloudTweaks article “5 Ways the Cloud is Redefining Modern-Day Data Centers”, I discussed how cloud computing is driving a major shift in IT [...]

Education Benefits The aging communications infrastructures of various colleges and universities across the globe are producing significant challenges for their leaders. As these administrators search for cost-effective but scalable solutions, [...]

IoT Investments The Internet of Things (IoT) took a major step closer to becoming the dominant reality of our times today with the news that software giant Cisco would be [...]

Digital Marketing Mix In the past, trends in the exceptionally fast-paced digital marketing mix arena have been quickly adopted or abandoned, keeping marketers and consumers on their toes. 2016 promises [...]

The Social Data Cloud One of the most amazing attributes of the cloud and its related technologies is its sheer openness. New companies and ventures spring up daily, fueled, in [...]

Governmental Decryption Recent U.S. bills proposed in California and New York aim to implement a controversial governmental backdoor into mobile devices. The issue concerns forcing manufacturers to provide a mechanism [...]

Aerogel For many years now, clothing manufacturers have known about the remarkable properties of aerogel, a material consisting of little more than a foam substance of air, silica and carbon [...]

Bigcommerce According to third-party research firm Ipsos, Bigcommerce boasted store growth twice as fast as the e-commerce industry average in 2015, and in-house data from “the best e-commerce platform for [...]

The Cloud Showdown For small and medium businesses (SMB) seeking to grow in 2016, options for increasing efficiency abound. The Cloud offers many benefits for businesses, including slashing IT expenses, [...]

Botnets and DDoS Attacks There’s just so much that seems as though it could go wrong with closed-circuit television cameras, a.k.a. video surveillance. With an ever-increasing number of digital eyes [...]

Failure to Invest In Online Backup Success in business is a combination of many things – the right staff, the right budgeting plan, the right company culture – but also [...]

Useful Business Startup Tools Cloud tools and the cloud market are evolving from a focus on technology to solution-specific instruments with practical objectives. Ten years ago, businesses were run almost entirely [...]