Access and Feeds

Yearly Archives: 2015

Robots: Autonomous Robots Carrying Groceries Home Over the Last Mile

By Dick Weisinger

The next generation of home-delivery groceries may be made by robots.  While Amazon and Walmart are testing flying drones for delivery, a new company called Starships Technologies, is launching a land-based robot pickup and delivery service.  The company has developed…

Big Data Analytics: Fierce Competition Among Cloud-Based Analytics Tools

By Dick Weisinger

New cloud tools for analyzing and visualizing Big Data are being released almost weekly by the major cloud vendors.  For example, Google recently announced the launch of Cloud Datalab.  AWS has Amazon QuickSight, and SAP, IBM, Microsoft and Salesforce have similar…

Data Scientists and Programming: Speaking the Language of Data

By Dick Weisinger

The Python and R computing languages have become the two preferred languages among computer scientists.  R was developed by statisticians specifically for data analysis and comes with strong data visualization capabilities.  Python is a general-purpose scripting language with extensive libraries,…

Storage: Cisco Predicts Mass Migration of Data from Local PCs to Cloud and non-PC devices by 2019

By Dick Weisinger

The volume of cloud traffic is exploding.  Cisco estimates that in 2015 total global cloud traffic will be on the order of 2.1 Zettabytes (ZB), and they predict that cloud traffic will grow to 8.6 zettabytes by 2019.  Cloud traffic…

Internet of Things (IoT): HealthCare Spearheads use of IoT Medical Devices

By Dick Weisinger

The Internet of Things (IoT) market is already huge and has a potential for very rapid growth over the next five years.  This is despite the fact that 87 percent of people have never heard of the Internet of Things (IoT).…