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Cloud Computing: Public Cloud Spending to Grow Faster than Private and Hybrid

By Dick Weisinger

Public, private, hybrid — there are a lot of qualifiers used when describing sectors of the cloud market.  IDC has a new one: the ‘whole cloud’.  The whole cloud is a sum of public, private and hybrid cloud.  It also…

Security: Insider Threats Pose Biggest Problem

By Dick Weisinger

Inside security threats are the biggest dangers for application security. Inside threats can occur when a disgruntled employee acts against a company or when an employee inadvertently  expose confidential data to someone outside the organization. Jon Heimerl, manager at NTT…

Artificial Intelligence: Step-wise Advances Enable Machine Learning to Evolve

By Dick Weisinger

AI that can be used to self-build more complex and more accurate AI is beginning to happen.  Google’s NASNet researchers say that they have developed AI that can do just that.  The computer-generated AI system is called NASNet, and it…

Storage: Cloud Giants Bypass Big Three Storage Vendors When Building Datacenters

By Dick Weisinger

A total of 72.5 exabytes of enterprise storage systems shipped worldwide in the third quarter 2017, according to a report by IDC, an increase of nearly 25 percent over the same period in 2016. Sales revenues reached $11.8 billion, a…

Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence: Algorithms Will Change How Health Care is Delivered

By Dick Weisinger

Machines are beginning to outperform humans at highly-specific tasks that often take humans years to master.  A Deep Learning algorithm at Stanford, for example, recently was trained to be able to detect pneumonia from x-rays of patients, and the accuracy…