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Yearly Archives: 2017

Bimodal IT: Manufacturers Staff up IT Departments to Improve Innovation and Competitiveness

By Dick Weisinger

The rapid advance of new technology is dividing many IT departments in half.  One half focuses on keeping the current systems up and running while a second half scouts out and tests new technologies that could be transformative for the…

Artificial Intelligence: The Problem of Making Machines too Human

By Dick Weisinger

This past July, the press headlined a comment by Elon Musk where he said that Mark Zuckerberg’s understanding of AI was ‘limited’.  After Musk’s warning earlier in the year that AI potentially is potentially the most dangerous threat to civilization,…

IIoT Deployments to Double: Manufacturers Reinvent Themselves with New Technologies

By Dick Weisinger

In the US, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) hasn’t taken hold yet.  67 percent of manufacturers aren’t using the technology.  But a survey by ABI Research found that 74 percent of companies are investigating and planning to deploy IoT…

Copyright Law: EU Planning to Restrict Data Use

By Dick Weisinger

Tech companies in the EU are worried about proposed legislation to severely restrict the use of data for text mining and big data. The proposed legislation is part of EU copyright reform and would restrict any business in the EU…

IT Operations: Adoption of Internet of Things Drives Investment in ITOM

By Dick Weisinger

IT operations management (ITOM) is the management of the day-to-day activities related to the operation of an organization’s IT infrastructure components and applications, including on-premises data centers, private cloud deployments, and public cloud resources. Gartner predicts that adoption of new technologies like…