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Cloud Security: Offers Better Security Controls than On-Premise but Comes with Unique Challenges

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud security beats on-premise security practices every time. Except when it doesn’t. Cloud security has managed to turn around a reputation of high risk and poor security into one of puncture-proof security designed and implemented by security experts whose full-time…

Predictive Maintenance: Sniffing Out Problems Before They Become Serious

By Dick Weisinger

Wait until something breaks and then call someone to repair it. That’s a reactive approach. It’s prescriptive maintenance management. But waiting until something breaks down before attempting to fix it can be expensive. Predictive maintenance is the alternative and tries…

Equipment As A Service: Shifting from a CapEx to OpEx Model

By Dick Weisinger

Equipment as a Service (EaaS) is a business model where the producer of a product, instead of directly selling the product, rents or leases it to customers. It can be thought of as a pay-for-use model. The advantage of a…

Metaverse: The Evolving Nexus of the Internet with Virtual Reality

By Dick Weisinger

The Web 1.0 refers to the Internet from about 1990 to 1994. Sometime around 2004, some analysts and writers, like publisher Tim O’Reilly started talking about a more participatory experience and dubbed it Web 2.0. Since then we’ve pretty much…

Serverless Computing: How to Pay for Just the Compute Cycles You Actually Use

By Dick Weisinger

Serverless Computing (or Function-as-a-Service — FaaS) is estimated to be a nearly $8 billion market by analyst firm Markets and Markets. The serverless market is growing at an annual rate of 25 percent. Serverless has the advantage of lower setup…