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Yearly Archives: 2020

Tech Spending: COVID-19 Forces IT to Shift Priorities and Spending

By Dick Weisinger

Covid-19 concerns and how to address the pandemic has had IT managers’ heads spinning trying to figure out what it all means. Covid-19 is expected to drive an economic slowdown and recession. Normally, recessions would cause IT to pull back…

Blockchain: China’s Plan to Dominate Distributed Ledger Apps (dApps)

By Dick Weisinger

China has been wary of the decentralized capabilities of blockchain, and they’ve devised a solution that gives them back control. In April, the Chinese government rolled out the Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN). The system has attracted about 6000 enterprise, government…

Technologies Strategic to Business Intelligence

By Dick Weisinger

Dresner Advisory recently released a report on Data Pipelines in 2020 that reports the support technologies most strategic to Business Intelligence. Manufacturing is one of the top three industries that places the highest priority on data integration 80 percent of…

Open Source: On the Wrong Side of History

By Dick Weisinger

There have been more about-face comments in the news lately from Microsoft about the good which Open Source offers. Steve Ballmer, then CEO at Microsoft, said in 2000 that “Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property…

Cyber Hygiene: Seven Steps to Avoid Malware and Hackers

By Dick Weisinger

Cyberhygiene is the protection of access points for devices connected to a network. Appropriate security measures will monitor and protect computers, laptops, networks, printers, and operating systems from malware and other attacks that might attempt to breach security. Ali Dehghantanha,…