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Yearly Archives: 2016

Manufacturing IT: Digital Manufacturing to Revolutionize Businesses

By Dick Weisinger

IDC recently made the following predictions for how IT will affect global manufacturing: Investment in IT will promote “customer centricity” and help businesses become more responsive to customers, boosting their market share by 2 to 3 percentage points. 90 percent of manufacturers will…

GPU Computing: Massive Inexpensive Parallel Processing with GPUs Challenge Standard CPUs

By Dick Weisinger

GPUs were originally designed to attack very data-intensive graphic processing problems, used for rendering very complex images and for graphics in games and multimedia, and hence their name Graphic Processing Units (GPU).  What makes GPUs so powerful is the massive…

Containers: Enabling Build-Once-Run-Anywhere Applications

By Dick Weisinger

Containers are stand-alone lightweight packages that provide a isolated environment for an application and its configuration complete with all needed dependencies and libraries.  Containers are easily provisioned in real-time and typically use far fewer resources than virtual machines. Robert Stroud, Forrester…

Big Data: United Nations Offers Big Data Standard, but Can it Gain Traction?

By Dick Weisinger

When it comes to Big Data one thing that’s been missing is standards.  There is a myriad of products but interoperability isn’t a high priority design feature. Frank Walton, Faculty Member at City College of New York, says that “there’s chaos…

Internet of Things (IoT): Confused? How will IoT be Used?

By Dick Weisinger

“IoT is now relevant to all organisations. Whether IoT applications are deployed to help IT function, driven by lines of business or through devices introduced by end users, various practices will need adapting to accommodate the millions of things involved…