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Yearly Archives: 2020

Exascale Computing: HPC Targets AI and Modeling

By Dick Weisinger

How many FLOPs can your computer do? FLOP = Floating Point Operations per Second. As of 2017, the fastest computer was benchmarked at 93 PetaFLOPs or 93×1015 operations per second. Vendors are shooting for ten times that to get into…

Disruption: 7 Technologies that will Change Everything

By Dick Weisinger

“The single largest challenge facing enterprises and technology providers today is digital disruption. The virtual nature of digital disruptions makes them much more difficult to deal with than past technology-triggered disruptions,” said Gartner’s Daryl Plummer. Plummer said that “disruption doesn’t…

Aggregated AI: Combining AI Engines into SuperBots

By Dick Weisinger

There have been whirlwind advances by Artificial Intelligence over the past few years. AI that can beat humans at Chess, Go or Jeopardy. AI that can drive cars and drones. AI that is better than radiologists at reading X-Rays and…

Data Privacy Audits: Using Security to Achieve Privacy

By Dick Weisinger

New regulations like the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) in the EU and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) are putting a focus on how personal data is collected, used, and secured. Andrew Struthers-Kennedy, managing director at Protiviti, said that…

IT Metrics: The Business of Success

By Dick Weisinger

What are the best metrics to measure the success of an IT group? You might consider some of the following: System up time/availability System performance Number of production problems listed by severity None of these, according to Gartner analysts. All…