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Yearly Archives: 2017

Cloud Computing: Enterprises Urged to Move VMs to the Cloud to Slash Both Server Footprint and Compute Costs

By Dick Weisinger

On average, enterprises that shift  their existing VMs to the cloud can reduce their IT server footprint by 54 percent and cut their budgets by 45 percent, according to a survey by TSO Logic. In the survey of more than 10,000 servers and 25,000 VMs, the…

Energy Harvesting: Scientists Look Beyond Standard Batteries for Powering IoT and Wearable Devices

By Dick Weisinger

The Internet of Things (IoT) envisions a world scattered with devices and sensors that collect and transmit data about almost anything. But a bottleneck to the vision is being able to keep these devices powered for long periods of time.  Batteries…

Healthcare and Security: Third-Party Medical Devices Often Provide Point of Entry

By Dick Weisinger

Cyber attacks continue to plague health care organizations. In 2016 there was a 63 percent increase in major attacks against health care providers.  Among all HIPAA data breaches, cyber attacks against health care providers now account for nearly a third…

Big Data + Precision Agriculture: Advancing the Science of Farming

By Dick Weisinger

Precision agriculture is a technique for collecting and processing data in real time to help farmers make decisions about how best to plant, fertilize and harvest crops. The technology uses of sensors monitoring plants in the field and the use…

Deep Learning: Finding Patterns in Data with Artificial Intelligence

By Dick Weisinger

The Deep Learning market is growing at an annual rate of 65 percent annually and is expected to reach $1.8 billion by 2022 according to a report by Research and Markets. Deep Learning is a kind of machine learning, but…