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Yearly Archives: 2016

Data Centers: The Move to Renewable Energy Sources by IT Businesses

By Dick Weisinger

Despite the drop in oil and gas prices, increasingly businesses, especially IT businesses, are committing to renewable energy alternatives. Apple, Amazon, Salesforce, Facebook, Microsoft and HP are just a few of the businesses that are touting their efforts in going…

High Performance Computing (HPC): IDC Reports Stunning ROI for Technology

By Dick Weisinger

The High-Performance Computing (HPC) server market finished up 2015 by 12 percent, reaching $11.4 billion, according to a report from IDC sponsored by the DOE.  When HPC storage, middleware, applications, and services are also considered, the total market size for 2015 comes…

Artificial Intelligence: Facebook Building Algorithms to Surpass the Capabilities of all Human Senses

By Dick Weisinger

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, has identified three main areas that Facebook is focusing its R&D effort on: Advanced artificial intelligence — to better determine what Facebook users want to see Virtual reality — the next technology users will want to use…

Cloud Computing: Amazon, Microsoft, IBM and Google Lead the Pack as Competitors Consolidate

By Dick Weisinger

It’s been ten years since Amazon AWS launched in 2006 and pioneered cloud computing as we know it.  During that time many other vendors have tried to jump in and claim part of the cloud market share, but going into 2016…

IoT and the Data Center: Tuning up Data Centers to Handle the Volumes Generated by IoT

By Dick Weisinger

The Internet of Things isn’t a fad.  Gartner predicts that the 5 billion devices connected to the Internet in 2015 will grow by a factor of five by 2020 to 25 billion, and Forrester estimates that more than 82 percent…