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Yearly Archives: 2015

Continuous Development Versus Continuous Deployment: The Benefits and Worries. Which to Use?

By Dick Weisinger

You may have heard the terms continuous delivery and continuous deployment. What’s the difference these and how are they being used today? Continuous delivery is the use of very short cycles during software development.  It’s the philosophy for a software…

Drones: Identifying Objects in the Sky with LED Light Signatures

By Dick Weisinger

There have been more than 650 sightings of unauthorized unmanned drones flying near aircraft so far in 2015 that have been reported to the FAA.  The number of incidents has nearly tripled since 2014.  Drones have interfered not only with aircraft…

Fast Data: Cloudera Kudu Enables Fast Analytics and Efficient Updates

By Dick Weisinger

First there was Big Data and Hadoop, and now there is Fast Data. Cloudera’s new open source project Kudu offers fast analytics with efficient updates, combining the best of Hadoop’s HDFS and HBase.  The combination of the two enables the…

Digital Business: Is Your Business a Digital Leader, or a Dreamer or a Dabbler?

By Dick Weisinger

IT, business and marketing leaders virtually unanimously say that digital business has great benefits, according to a survey by Gartner.  But taking the leap from a ‘planner’ to a ‘doer’ is hard. Business leaders say that the two biggest challenges…

Businesses and Data: Metric Developed by PwC Ranks Businesses on Using Data for Competitive Advantage

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses are increasingly acquiring more data than ever before, but despite intentions to adopt big data and analytics, very few businesses ever get any benefit from the data that they store.  Just 4 percent of businesses are actually successful in…