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Storage: Storage Class Memory Devices to Become More Common in 2018

By Dick Weisinger

A new type of storage is expected to be used more commonly in computing devices this year: Storage Class Memory (SCM) or persisent memory (PM).  From a software perspective, SCM works like system memory does today but it has the…

B2B Chatbots: Bots that Personalize the Process of Doing Business

By Dick Weisinger

In order to be more responsive to their customers, enterprises are investing in the development of chatbots, apps that can conversationally interact with users, providing answers to their questions.  Gartner says that by 2021 that half of enterprises will spend…

Digital Transformation Challenges Tech Skillsets

By Dick Weisinger

Organizations are on-board with understanding that adoption of new technologies are the main way to stay to relevant.  But those same organizations are reluctant to fund training to keep their staff current with technology trends.  The disconnect between a desire…

File Formats: Long Term Archival with PDF/A

By Dick Weisinger

The PDF file format created by Adobe is almost universally used when sharing fixed-format documents. Adobe made the PDF file format publicly available as an open standard in 2005, and the format is under the control of the ISO committee.…

Cloud Computing: Bezos’ Law isn’t Working?

By Dick Weisinger

First there was Moore’s law, the complexity and computing power of hardware doubles every two years.  Then, in 2014, Greg O’Connor, former CEO of AppZero, in a post on GigaOm proposed a similar law for Cloud Computing and called it…