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Artificial Intelligence: The Coming Migration to AI-Powered Enterprises

By Dick Weisinger

Only  four percent of CIOs say that their organization is using artificial intelligence, according to a survey by Gartner.  That number is low now, but is expected to increase dramatically over the next couple of years.  About another quarter have…

Global IT Spending: Strong Growth Expected for Enterprise Software in 2018

By Dick Weisinger

Global IT spending increased in 2017 and is expected to reach $3.7 trillion in 2018, an increase of 4.5 percent over 2017, according to Gartner.  The areas in IT that are driving growth are blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), digital…

Microservices: Streamlining Development by Breaking up Monolithic Applications

By Dick Weisinger

Microsoervices is an architectural style that builds applications from a collection of loosely coupled services. The protocols used are lightweight and the services are very fine grained.  Each service stands on its own, and as such, makes development, testing, and…

User Interfaces: Voice is Expected to Be Important Factor in Enterprise Apps

By Dick Weisinger

Voice user interfaces are appearing everywhere in consumer products.  These include Amazon’s Alexa, Google’s Asssistant, Microsoft’s Cortana and Apple’s Siri. Voice is increasingly being used.  For example, Google voice search queries have grown by 35 times since 2008 and 7 times…

Storage: Breakthroughs in Magnetism May Enable Creation of Smaller, Denser and more Efficient Magnetic Storage Devices

By Dick Weisinger

Advances in our understanding of magnetism may mean that we are close to a number of breakthroughs in improving the capabilities of magnetic storage.  Some of these were recently summarized by Patrick Nelson at Network World. At Tulane University, a…