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Monthly Archives: January 2017

Health Care: Providers not Proactive When Managing IT and Security

By Dick Weisinger

Health care providers are stuck in low gear in managing IT and security, according to to a report by Black Book that summarizes expected health care trends in 2017. Some of Black Book’s predictions for 2017 include: Hospitals and health

Fog and Edge Computing: Network Architectures that Decentralize IoT Data Collection

By Dick Weisinger

Many applications have been built with a client-server model that centralizes most of the processing and data storage on a central server.  But if huge numbers of clients are added to the network, the model breaks down when the server becomes overloaded

Artificial Intelligence: Supply Chain Logistics to become like Self-Driving Cars

By Dick Weisinger

Artificial Intelligence has reached the point where it is being productively applied to a wide range of disciplines.  Consider supply chains. Artificial Intelligence can optimize supply chain logistics to match sales and customer demand. IDC Manufacturing Insights predicts that within five years that

Augmented and Virtual Reality: 2017 Expected to be Breakout Year

By Dick Weisinger

Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) is set poised for rapid growth in 2017.  The market has already been growing strongly, but as the technology improves and headsets and devices become cheaper, sales are expected to boom. Jitesh Ubrani senior research

IT and Business: IT Increasingly Aligns More Closely with Business Goals than with Technology

By Dick Weisinger

A report from the Society for Information Management surveyed businesses and found that more than ever IT is aligning with business requirements and goals.  The findings of the report include: The focus of IT increasingly is on business requirements rather