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Data Tiers: Cost-Efficient Storage of Data

By Dick Weisinger

All data is not equal. The importance of financial data often trumps the importance of other types of data. Further, as data ages, it’s value often degrades as well. Data tiering is a way to categorize and assign a priority…

Air Gapping for Security: Isolating Data Offline Can Decrease Possibility of Data Loss

By Dick Weisinger

Data loss and ransomware threats and worries are leading many IT shops to look at how they could protect themselves. One possible option is being called “Air Gapping“. An air gap means that a device or network is disconnected from…

Cloud Computing: Nimbleness Wins Out Over Costs

By Dick Weisinger

There’s a lot of ways that businesses can save money by moving to the cloud. The ability to scale up or down means that you only need to pay for the servers and services that you actually use. There is…

Artificial Intelligence: Facial Recognition Vulnerable to Attacks and Misuse

By Dick Weisinger

How secure is facial recognition as a biometric tool to lock up secrets? It may be good enough to protect access to your cellphone, but increasingly adversarial AI researchers are figuring out ways to defeat it. Researchers at Tel Aviv…

Semiconductors: Samsung Vies with TSMC for 3nm Chip Production

By Dick Weisinger

3nm chips will be in production soon. Samsung announced they have begun production of 3nm chips and plan to scale up production later in the year. TSMC is also planning the production of 3nm chips later this year. 3nm chips…