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Yearly Archives: 2017

Artificial Intelligence: Smart Machines Pose Both Threat and Opportunity for Workers

By Dick Weisinger

Robotics and new Artificial Intelligence technologies like Deep Learning may mean that jobs with many repetitive tasks that are currently being done by humans will be replaceable by machines in the not too distant future. Stephen Prentice, vice-president and Gartner analyst, said that…

IT Goals: Spending to Optimize Rather than to Transform May be the Wrong Strategy

By Dick Weisinger

How is your IT budget being spent?  With the increasing hype around the importance of data, many businesses feel that they need to up their IT spending to keep their businesses from falling behind. But increased spending on IT won’t…

Cloud Computing versus On-Premise: Cloud has MindShare, but will be with Us for Some Time

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses of all sizes are discovering that use of the cloud has benefits, chief of which may be cost benefits, but there are also benefits of quick and easy scalability, and no need to make large up-front investments in hardware…

Internet of Things (IoT) and Security: Increasingly Complex Device Connectivity Means that Security Strategies Need to be More Adaptive and Scalable

By Dick Weisinger

Protecting your computer from malware and viruses has been hard, but as technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT) gain popularity and as computers are increasingly embedded into everything from clothing to refrigerators, the world of cybersecurity is becoming much…

Data Centers: Specifying Lego-Like Components for Building Data Centers

By Dick Weisinger

Another tech infrastructure consortium has banded together to form the Open19 Foundation.  The goal of the group is to develop a standard for servers that will work in all kinds of data centers. Members of the group include LinkedIn, HPE,…