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Cloud Computing: Smaller Cloud Vendors Compete for Market Share

By Dick Weisinger

Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud are the three big names in the US for cloud vendors. But recently alternatives are becoming available. A lot of them. For example: Oracle Cloud, IBM Cloud, Linode, DigitalOcean, Rackspace, and OVHCloud. The…

Artificial Intelligence: The Challenge of Common Sense

By Dick Weisinger

Common sense. Most people you know have it, but machines do not. And that’s a problem for artificial intelligence. Computers are good at automating the processing of numbers and managing rules and relationships between objects, but they are not good…

Data Quality: Data Reliability Engineers

By Dick Weisinger

The role that data plays in an organization is becoming ever more important. Gartner estimates that poor data quality can be expensive and they assign a cost of $12.9 million as the amount lost by an average company due to…

Digital Transformation: Having the Right People on Board Can Make All the Difference

By Dick Weisinger

What’s the key to kickstarting digital transformation in an organization? It’s people, according to Thomas Davenport and Thomas Redman in an article for Harvard Business Review. It’s people with the right skill sets. In particular, it’s people with skillsets in…

Fusion: Sustainable Fusion Projects Advance

By Dick Weisinger

Atomic fusion is the merging of two hydrogen atoms into a single helium atom. It is a process that requires very large amounts of heat and pressure. Fusion occurs naturally on the sun, but so far, humans have been unable…