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Yearly Archives: 2020

Cloud Computing: Skills Gap is Holding back Adoption

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud computing seems to be the future, yet a severe skills gap in cloud skills may slow adoption. The skills gap is particularly deep in the area of platform expertise, DevOps, cloud architecture and security. 90 percent of organizations now…

Digital Transformation: Accelerated by COVID-19

By Dick Weisinger

One of the few benefits derived over the past year from the COVID-19 pandemic has been an acceleration by businesses towards digital. Businesses sped up adoption of digital transformation technologies by an average of six years, according to research by…

Data: Massive Carbon Emissions Attributed to Long-term Storage of Unused Data

By Dick Weisinger

We’ve been convinced that storing data digitally saves trees and is a green pursuit. The flip side to storing data electronically though is that it has become too easy to do and increasingly data and documents are being stored that…

Cyberhacking: Even Security Pros are Vulnerable

By Dick Weisinger

If a top cybersecurity company can be hacked, it should give you pause about the safety of your information online. Earlier this week FireEye’s CEO, Kevin Mandia, announced that their company had been hacked and some of the assessment tools…

Linux: One Million Code Commits Over 29 years

By Dick Weisinger

Linux may not be the operating system that’s easiest to use for end users, but as a server OS, it ranks as the most widely used. All 500 of the world’s fastest supercomputers use Linux. Linux is even more widely…