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Digital Transformation: Balancing the Risk of Getting it Wrong Versus the Risk of Not Doing Anything

By Dick Weisinger

FOMO – the Fear of Missing Out.  It’s a hot button that marketers love to push.  Digital Transformation is the current hype and has become a marketing mantra for many tech businesses. The marketers aren’t totally wrong.  It is big. …

Digital Twins: Data Models for Non-destructively Simulating Objects and Systems

By Dick Weisinger

As both software and hardware technologies advance, so does our ability to model and simulate the world around us digitally.  Digital twins pair a computer simulation of a physical object with an actual object or system.  Computer simulation is nondestructive…

Storage Trends: Businesses Prefer Cloud Storage

By Dick Weisinger

The cloud is now the dominant form for storage, according to a 2018 survey by the Enterprise Storage Forum.  68 percent of businesses are using the cloud for some of their storage needs, and the cloud is the top choice…

Humans and Technology: Transforming Us for the Better?

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner recently outlined five areas where technology is transforming humanity. Mike J. Walker, research vice president at Gartner, said that “business and technology leaders will continue to face rapidly accelerating technology innovation that will profoundly impact the way they engage…

Object Storage: Cloud Vendors Shrink Total Cost of Ownership with Object Storage Offerings

By Dick Weisinger

Object Storage dates back to research by Garth Gibson at Carnegie Mellon University in the mid-nineties and later commercialized by EMC with the Centera product. Cloud offerings of object storage have driven growth in the technology.  The technology enables large…