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Yearly Archives: 2016

Serverless Architecture: The Cloud is Killing Open Source

By Dick Weisinger

Serverless architecture. It’s the promise of products like Amazon AWS Lambda.  The idea is that it’s not that there it doesn’t require servers and hardware, it’s a higher abstraction that thinks about computing resources as services rather than hardware, virtual…

Big Data: Federal Agencies turn to “Anticipatory Intelligence”

By Dick Weisinger

Government intelligence agencies are experimenting with foreseeing problems and crimes before they happen by using predictive analytics.  This application of big data and analytics is being called “anticipatory intelligence” and is the main focus of a newly launched department within…

Artificial Intelligence: Capturing the State of AI in 15 Stats

By Dick Weisinger

Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking earlier in the year all said that the rapid advance of Artificial Intelligence is something that we should be worried about.  Yet just a few months later Elon Musk was in the news for…

IT Spending 2016: Growth to be Flat or Slightly Negative in 2016 but Brexit to Further Impact Negatively

By Dick Weisinger

The Brexit vote will be yet another hit to IT spending for 2016 announced Gartner this week.  Global spending for IT declined 6 percent in 2015.  At the beginning of the year Gartner forecast modest growth of .5 percent during…

Big Data: Successful Big Data Projects Focus on Business Requirements

By Dick Weisinger

How do you measure success with Big Data?  One metric clearly is whether or not the projects Big Data is used with are profitable.  A recent study of Big Data projects by Capgemini found that less than one third of…