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Artificial Intelligence: Businesses Go ‘All In’

By Dick Weisinger

How much are businesses spending on AI? The estimates vary significantly, but the numbers are all very large. IDC estimates that spending on cognitive and AI systems will reach $77.6 billion in 2022. Juniper Research estimates that by 2023 the…

Cloud Computing: SLI + SLO + $ = SLA

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud Computing is hard. Customers want to be reassured that their data is safe and will be available at any time. The terms of the Service Level Agreement (SLA) customers and vendors agree to usually promise uptimes to multiple nines.…

Security: Intellectual Property now Top Target of Cyber Thieves

By Dick Weisinger

Data theft by cyber hacking has become a top worry of businesses and organizations. Thieves are getting stealthier and use a variety of techniques to hack into data stores. Types of data loss include database leaks, cloud applications and removable…

Enterprise Resource Planning: ERP Reinvents Itself in the Age of the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems are changing. ERP software has long had a reputation for being massive in its reach across the enterprise, notorious for its one-system-to-rule-them-all approach. But the cloud is changing that as businesses migrate their IT operations…

Code Development: Python Now Ranks Among Top Three Programming Languages

By Dick Weisinger

Python has moved up in popularity, unseating C++, and now is in third position in the TIOBE list of popular computer programming languages. The TIOBE index report noted that “the Python programming language started as a successor of Perl to…