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Yearly Archives: 2017

Digital Transformation: IT Can’t Be Done without IT Automation

By Dick Weisinger

What does Digital Transformation mean to today’s businesses?  Technologies like the cloud, analytics, mobile, big data and others come to mind.  A report from BMC finds that perhaps even more important than any of those, IT automation is key to…

Big Data: Using Data Sketches for Analyzing Massive Real-Time Data Streams

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data usually means massive amounts of data must be stored for analysis and processing.  For many scenarios, trying to save all data simply isn’t feasible because of the costs involved in storing so much data.  Trying to keep all data for all…

Internet Trends: Internet Usage Saturates as Users Run out of Available Time

By Dick Weisinger

People’s lives have become saturated with their interaction with the Internet.  Mary Meeker’s recent annual report on the internet found that in the US that people only spent 4 percent more time on the internet in 2016, compared to 2015.…

Security and IoT: Most IoT Devices are Unsecured and Open to Hacking and Malware

By Dick Weisinger

80 percent of all Internet of Things (IoT) devices have security flaws and are vulnerable to an attack, according to a Ponemon study made earlier this year. That lack of security in many IoT devices is causing a major concern among organizations…

Security and Risk Management: Four Vectors Repositioning the Direction of Today’s Security Market

By Dick Weisinger

Software, IT and technology have been in a constant state of rapid change for some time.  Specifically, in the area of security and risk management, businesses are rethinking their current strategies. Gartner recently identified what they are calling the four…