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Yearly Archives: 2016

Cloud Computing: Apple, DropBox and Spotify All Pull Data Out From Amazon AWS

By Dick Weisinger

Amazon AWS is at the top of the cloud computing industry and has good reason to celebrate this tenth anniversary year of their business.  AWS is the biggest public cloud provider and also had better uptime performance compared to Google…

IT Spending: CIOs Focus on Big Data for Offense and Security for Defense

By Dick Weisinger

CIOs today are focused on two things: Big Data and analytics.  Investments are strong in both of these areas.  Security for defense, to defend against risks to the business, and big data and analytics for offense, to grow the business…

Internet of Things (IoT): Traditional IT Architectures Will Evolve to Become More Decentralized

By Dick Weisinger

20 billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020 and ready to send and receive data, according to a forecast by Gartner.  The amount of data generated by these devices will be unprecedented and dwarf the amount of…

Algorithmic Economy: Forget Big Data. Algorithms Trump Data Any Day

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses in all industries are increasingly turning to high tech for innovation and as the fuel for achieving high growth.  Algorithms have become the secret recipe for today’s business successes.  Algorithms today are sophisticated and enable businesses to understand their…

Open Data: The Opportunity Project’s Goal to Improve Urban Communitites

By Dick Weisinger

Last month the Obama administration announced what they called The Opportunity Project, a plan to grow the collaboration between the public and private sectors.  The website for the project self-describes itself as being “about all of us working together to increase opportunity…