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Robotics: Automating the Mundane

By Dick Weisinger

Robots are getting increasingly sophisticated. A recent survey of robotic advancements made in 2018 by Guang-Zhong Yang and others in ScienceRobotics highlighted ten of last years innovations. The highlights include the advanced humanoid Atlas robot from Boston Dynamics, capable of…

Data Gravity: Growing Cloud Repository Sizes Flip the Dynamics of IT

By Dick Weisinger

The larger data repositories grow, the more important they become as a source of information. The bigger the system, the more rooted the data becomes and the more difficult it is to migrate the data into a new location or…

Off-Premise Computing: State of Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

Google’s Eric Schmidt first introduced the term “Cloud Computing” in 2006. Now, thirteen years later, the term is ubiquitous. What next for the cloud? Flexera recently created a survey of the state of cloud computing. The 786 businesses that responded…

Unstructured Data: Processes Shift from Transactional to Data-Centric

By Dick Weisinger

Data has vaulted to the thing that businesses now say is the most important for their companies, after customers and employees. Increasingly businesses are being swamped with the collection huge amounts of unstructured data. Piysh Kumar Chowhan, CIO at Arvind…

Cognitive Manufacturing: Improving Efficiency and Productivity while Reducing Costs

By Dick Weisinger

New technologies are being applied to decades-old manufacturing processes to improve business metrics like productivity, quality, reliability, safety and yield. The combination of cognitive computing, Industrial IoT and analytics is being called ‘Cognitive Computing’. IBM, in particular, has adopted the…