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Yearly Archives: 2017

Emerging Technology: Dark Analytics for Understanding Unstructured Data Tops List

By Dick Weisinger

Extracting and analyzing unstructured data to derive actionable information is ranked by Deloitte as the most important on-going emerging technology, something that they are calling “Dark Analytics“. The Deloitte report found that “in a business climate where data is competitive currency,…

Blockchain: Bringing Disruption to the Financial Industry

By Dick Weisinger

The financial industry has worries about the potential impact that blockchain can have on the financial industry and, more specifically, their business. According to a recent survey of financial industry executives, Synechron found that: 89 percent said that they expect…

Security: 2016 Saw the Return of Massive Volumes of Spam Email

By Dick Weisinger

Email servers are being swamped by in-coming spam.  A report by Cisco on cybersecurity finds that as much as 65 percent of all mail that is sent is spam and about 20 percent of the spam sent has malicious content.  The…

Bad Bots: Increasingly Sophisticated in their Attack on Web Sites

By Dick Weisinger

Internet site traffic is increasingly attributed to visits by bot programs.  40 percent of all traffic on the internet is from bots, and half of those visits are made by bad bots.  Bots are software programs that automate tasks on the…

Big Data in the Cloud: Businesses Deploy Big Data in the Cloud for Strategic Operations

By Dick Weisinger

In 2016, Big Data was a $130 billion market, estimates IDC.  Further, they expect the Big Data market to grow to $203 billion by 2020, a nealry 12 percent annual growth rate. A recent study by AtScale looked at businesses,…