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Cloud Computing: NSF Teams with Cloud Vendors for Data Research Problems

By Dick Weisinger

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that it will provide $30 million in funding of data science and big data projects under a program grant that they’re calling BIGDATA.  Additionally, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) are…

Data: The Volume of Data Collected and Stored Continues to Surge

By Dick Weisinger

Cisco is back again with their annual estimate of how much data the world is churning out.  Cisco predicts that by 2021 the annual amount of data created will exceed 847 zettabytes, a factor of four increase over the amount…

Security: Legacy On-Premise Security Tools Themselves Become Source of Security Issues

By Dick Weisinger

Despite the fact that businesses are moving to the cloud, 70 percent of security tools that are still being used are legacy ones that were developed specifically for on-premise systems, according to a study by Dimensional Research and sponsored by…

Cloud Computing: Private Cloud is Just Another Name for On-Premise

By Dick Weisinger

Building a Private Cloud has been the objective of many mid to large companies that want the operational flexibility and quick scalability promised by public cloud vendors and that also want to be able to closely control their data to…

Cybersecurity and SEC Guidelines: Updating Guidelines for Security Best Practices

By Dick Weisinger

In November 2017, following a string of huge data breaches from companies like Equifax and Yahoo, affecting the data and privacy of millions of people, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it will revise its guidance to…