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Security: CyberSecurity Concerns Cause Businesses to Boost their Investment in Security

By Dick Weisinger

Spending on security is on track for large increases over the coming years.  IDC estimates that security spending globally will increase nearly 10 percent annually through 2022.  Spending on security in 2018 is estimated to be $92.1 billion. Frank Dickson,…

RPA: Robots Start to Invade Finance Departments

By Dick Weisinger

Robotic Process Automation (RPA), the automation of repetitive office tasks, is expected to have explosive growth.  Today just 19 percent of finance offices use any type of automation, according to Gartner.  By 2020, that number is expected to increase to…

Computer Chips: Emerging Technology Drives Demand for Specialized Chips

By Dick Weisinger

The chip market is demonstrating exploding growth as new technologies gain popularity, like Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and various new physical devices. Overall, semiconductors are seeing very strong growth globally, about 15 percent annually, but specialized chips…

Big Data: Trend Toward Cloud-Native Self-Service Big Data Platforms

By Dick Weisinger

Of 400 IT and data professionals recently surveyed by Qubole about how they are using Big Data, 40 percent work in organizations that exceed 100 terabytes. Those organizations clearly can be classified as handling Big Data. Highlights of Qubole’s report on…

Robotics: Despite Huge Interest and Benefits, Adoption is Low

By Dick Weisinger

Despite businesses expressing huge interest in the use of robots, IDC reports that only 16 percent of businesses have currently deployed any robots, although that might be changing because about half now say that they have plans to deploy them…