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Yearly Archives: 2015

Software Defined Networking: Disillusionment With Current Technology

By Dick Weisinger

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) decouples physical infrastructure and lets network administrators control their network services with software. While many believe that SDN represents the future of networking, Gartner’s recent networking hype cycle shows that at least currently SDN has run into a “trough of disillusionment”.  “This…

WiFi Aware: Connecting Nearby Users Without the Internet

By Dick Weisinger

WiFi Aware is a new technology that lets nearby devices connect and communicate even when standard WiFi, internet or cellular connections aren’t available.  The technology was released by the WiFi Alliance.  Connections will be possible between devices up to 30-45…

Cloud Computing: Move to As-A-Service Will be Slow For Many Large Enterprises

By Dick Weisinger

Half of businesses will not be able to covert their core enterprise processes to cloud-based “as a service” operations for at least another five years, according to research by HfS and Accenture.  The report finds that while the way enterprises implement services…

Data Analytics: Businesses Disappointed With Their Efforts to Apply Analytics

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprises aren’t satisfied with their tools for data analytics.  A report from KPMG International found that while 97 percent of organizations surveyed said that they use data analytics, only 19 percent were satisfied with the results from their analytics tools.…

Cloud Computing: IDC Predicts the Global Public Cloud will Generate $70 Billion in 2015

By Dick Weisinger

The global public cloud computing market will top $70 billion in 2015, predicts IDC in a recent report. The following are the top five vertical applications for cloud computing and account for 45 percent of cloud computing spending: Discrete Manufacturing Banking…