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Infrastructure: Advantages of Submerged Offshore Data Centers

By Dick Weisinger

Microsoft recently ended a two year experiment called ‘Project Natick‘ that dropped a shipping container loaded up as a mini-data center with 900 servers installed on 12 racks. The container was connected to a fiber-optic cable and powered by renewable…

Artificial Intelligence: The Ultimate Source of Knowledge and Power?

By Dick Weisinger

Artificial Intelligence has the potential to vastly improve the quality of life, but there are also potential risks. Chief among the risks are biases built into algorithms and the chance that those algorithms will further skew inequalities in society or…

Data Management: There is Still a Lot of Room for Improvement

By Dick Weisinger

While data may be “the new oil” for the economy, many businesses haven woken up to that reality yet. A study by IDC found that 68 percent of business data is never leveraged in any way. Dave Mosley, Seagate CEO,…

No Code: Letting Line-Of-Business Citizen Developers Build Their Own Apps

By Dick Weisinger

The saying “Every business is a software business” is becoming ever more true. The expectation is that businesses will increasingly need customized software to meet their specific needs. But developers remain a bottleneck to that idea — there’s not enough…

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…