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Yearly Archives: 2020

Cloud Disruption: 2020 Has Been a Year of Accelerated Digital Transformation

By Dick Weisinger

COVID-19 in 2020 has been a huge impetus behind businesses moving to the cloud and pushing forward on digital transformation. Video conferencing is in. Self-managed application infrastructure is out. A survey of firms with $50+ million IT budgets by 2nd…

Infrastructure: Advantages of Submerged Offshore Data Centers

By Dick Weisinger

Microsoft recently ended a two year experiment called ‘Project Natick‘ that dropped a shipping container loaded up as a mini-data center with 900 servers installed on 12 racks. The container was connected to a fiber-optic cable and powered by renewable…

Artificial Intelligence: The Ultimate Source of Knowledge and Power?

By Dick Weisinger

Artificial Intelligence has the potential to vastly improve the quality of life, but there are also potential risks. Chief among the risks are biases built into algorithms and the chance that those algorithms will further skew inequalities in society or…

Data Management: There is Still a Lot of Room for Improvement

By Dick Weisinger

While data may be “the new oil” for the economy, many businesses haven woken up to that reality yet. A study by IDC found that 68 percent of business data is never leveraged in any way. Dave Mosley, Seagate CEO,…

No Code: Letting Line-Of-Business Citizen Developers Build Their Own Apps

By Dick Weisinger

The saying “Every business is a software business” is becoming ever more true. The expectation is that businesses will increasingly need customized software to meet their specific needs. But developers remain a bottleneck to that idea — there’s not enough…