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Yearly Archives: 2016

Enterprise Software: Idle Software Costing Businesses Billions

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses are losing billions of dollars on software they purchase but which goes unused, according to a survey by 1E. The 1E report looked at software installed on 4.6 million devices and examined the regularity of use of the software…

Internet of Things (IoT): Preparing for the Upcoming Onslaught of Network Device Connections

By Dick Weisinger

Globally 21 billion IoT devices will be connected to enterprise networks by 2020 according to Gartner.  Gartner says that organizations need to prepare because there will be an ‘onslaught’ of IoT devices accessing corporate networks in just a short period…

Health Care: Predictive Analytics Enable Better Health Outcomes

By Dick Weisinger

Data and predictive analytics when applied to health care has the potential to improve the quality of service.  80 percent of hospital executives said that they expect predictive analytics to help them improve patient care, based on a report from…

Hybrid Cloud: Businesses are Rapidly Diversifying the IT to Include Both Cloud and On-Premise Computing

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses are slowly adopting the cloud.  Rather than go gung ho forward with an all-cloud strategy though, most businesses are testing the cloud with limited number of applications or infrastructure support.  During this transitional stage, many companies are adopting a…

Fog Computing: Distributing Intelligence and Data Collection to Edge Computing Elements

By Dick Weisinger

Fog computing is the distribution of computing tasks and ability to take actions to the computers that are closer to where data is being captured.  It means that less data gets sent back to central cloud computers and the processing…