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Security: Worst Year Ever for Data Losses Caused by Poor Security

By Dick Weisinger

2017 has turned out to be a year of wake up for companies about the effectiveness of their data security policies. Data breaches skyrocketed in 2017 by 305 percent over the same period in 2016, according to the Q3 2017 Data…

Innovation via Digital Transformation: Being Innovative Takes More than Just Money

By Dick Weisinger

Almost all financial institutions are spending money to digitize and innovate, according to a report by Infosys Finacle. The problem is that small institutions are not able to keep up, not just with bigger financial institutions, but with technology companies.…

Public Cloud Computing: 30 Percent Growth in 2017

By Dick Weisinger

Worldwide public cloud computing grew at a phenomenal annual rate of nearly 28.6 percent during the first half of 2017, according to IDC. Frank Gens, senior vice-president and chief analyst at IDC, said that “public cloud adoption is accelerating in…

Business and Software 2018: Trends Include Serverless Computing, Agile, AR and Microservices

By Dick Weisinger

What changes can we expect to see with Software Development over the next 12 months?  Forrester has made predictions for 2018 that were recently reported by Christina Cardoza at SDTimes. Devtest bots powered by machine learning and AI will speed software…

Quantum Computing: Capable of Both Breaking all Today’s Secure Systems and Enabling new Unbreakable Security

By Dick Weisinger

Yesterday we looked at the enormous cost of BitCoin technnology and questioned its sustainability.  Today we look at another threat to BitCoin: Quantum computing.  Quantum computing makes use of quantum-mechanical phenomena, like superposition and entanglement to perform data calculations. Quantum…