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Yearly Archives: 2016

Enterprise Search: Incorporating Machine Learning and Predictive Algorithms to Gain Relevance

By Dick Weisinger

Search for documents and data within the enterprise has been tough.  A survey by SearchYourCloud found that people would spend between five and 25 minutes everytime they needed to look for a document. Much of the problem has been that…

Content Management: Marketers Swamped with Management of Ever Growing Content

By Dick Weisinger

The amount of digital content is growing in all industries, and it’s no exception for marketing.  A recent report by Accenture Interactive found that 92 percent of marketing groups say that the amount of content that they manage has increased…

Big Data: Don’t Bother Rolling Out Big Data Tools Unless Your Application Really Warrants It

By Dick Weisinger

When to use Hadoop?  It really depends on your application.  And, as we will see, in some cases it doesn’t take big data sets for it to make sense to use Big Data. Many, and probably most, applications don’t really…

SuperComputing: Is Quantum Computing on the Horizon?

By Dick Weisinger

Bill Gates recently told Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) that he is excited about the prospects of quantum cloud computing. He said that “Microsoft and others are working on quantum computing. It isn’t clear when it will work or become mainstream. There…

Cloud Computing: 80 Percent of Private-Cloud PaaS Initiatives will Fail

By Dick Weisinger

Many enterprises that value security have taken the path of adopting private-cloud PaaS frameworks.  But a recent report by Gartner expects that this approach may lead to trouble.  In fact, the report estimates that as many as 80 percent of…