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Digital Transformation: Effective Communication is the Key to Success

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses are spending $2 trillion annually on digital transformation projects, according to IDC. Mark Raskino, distinguished VP analyst at Gartner, said that “in three to five years, every industry will be digitally remastered. Remember in the past IT was a…

Enterprise IT: It’s not Getting Easier — Complexity on the Horizon.

By Dick Weisinger

Technology is getting smarter. Things like AI and cloud computing are offloading tasks that require arcane IT skills to maintain and letting businesses focus more on solving business problems. IT should be getting simpler and easier. Not so, according to…

AI Inference Processors: Dedicated Chips Handling Separate AI Workflows is not the Future

By Dick Weisinger

Every tech company nowadays of any weight has taken it on their own to design an AI chip specific to their business. Amazon’s chip is called Inferentia, designed for ‘power workloads’ of thousands of teraflops of processing. Intel has a…

Mainframes: Business Workhorses Without the Hype

By Dick Weisinger

50 years ago NASA scientists used mainframe computers to land a man on the moon. Today’s iPhones have 100,000 times the processing power of those mainframes and cost just a fraction of the $3.5 million price tag from 1969. Despite…

Blockchain: Despite Obstacles and Setbacks, Elements of Blockchain Define the Future

By Dick Weisinger

While the consensus is that blockchain or future generations of blockchain could be revolutionary when applied to many different industries, the reality remains that blockchain successes to date have been limited. Despite setbacks, the hype still remains and people are…