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Robotic Process Automation: IT Departments Resist RPA Implementations

By Dick Weisinger

CXX roles within organizations love automation.  A survey from Deloitte found that 72 percent of CXX roles are highly supportive of Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Some of the benefits of RPA include cost reduction, speed, and quality. Larry Nash, recruiter…

Artificial Intelligence: Top AI Organizations Announce new MLPerf Tool to Benchmark Machine Learning

By Dick Weisinger

A consortium of industry and academic organizations recently announced support for a new set of benchmarks for machine learning frameworks and hardware.  The organizations include Google, Baidu, Intel, AMD, Harvard and Stanford.  The new benchmark is called MLPerf and is…

Blockchain: Adoption Weak; Businesses Stall Because the Technology will Bring Disruption and Re-engineering

By Dick Weisinger

Blockchain has managed to seize the attention from many industries, but that doesn’t mean that many of them are doing anything with it.  A recent survey of businesses by Gartner found that less than one percent of them indicated that…

Cryptocurrency Malware: Cybercriminals Target IoT Devices for Illicit Mining

By Dick Weisinger

Increasingly malware is infecting computers and Internet of Things (IoT) devices for the purpose of mining cryptocurrencies.  IoT devices are particularly vulnerable because, unlike most PCs, they often lack any sort of built-in security to prevent malware.  Often too, IoT…

Cloud Computing: Businesses Need to Proactively Evaulate Cloud Vendors

By Dick Weisinger

As usage of cloud technology increasingly becomes the norm, the next step in the evolution is the coordinated use of multiple cloud vendors.  IDC says that the use of multiple cloud suppliers is already common, but businesses aren’t currently doing…