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Digital Transformation: It’s Great! But what is it?

By Dick Weisinger

Increasingly businesses are talking about how digital transformation will allow them to grow more quickly and be successful.  Most companies are in agreement with that.  But when asked exactly what is meant by ‘digital transformation’, there are no consistent answers.…

Big Data: A Monster Machine for Solving Monster-sized Data Problems

By Dick Weisinger

Perhaps part publicity stunt and part visionary pioneering, Hewlett Packard Enterprise  (HPE) recently showcased a server built with hardware that specifically targets Big Data. It’s more than just a server prototype.  HPE is calling it “The Machine” and has equipped  it with…

Cloud Computing: Few Cloud Vendors have the Pockets and Expertise to Viably Compete

By Dick Weisinger

The benefits of cloud computing have driven a huge migration of computing from on-premise systems to systems running in the cloud.  The migration has been a bonanza as the largest cloud vendors snap up this business.  To support the rapid growth…

Software Development in the Cloud: Making Developers More Efficient

By Dick Weisinger

The software development cycle is changing. The traditional cycle of software development ranged from tasks like requirements gathering, analysis, implementation, QA, build-fix-build iterations and then, finally, application deployment. From start to finish, software development typically took many months or even…

Big Data: Cars of the Future to become Portable Data Centers

By Dick Weisinger

In 1998, Microsoft boasted about the capabilities of their new TerraServer database of geo information. They called it the “world’s largest atlas” consisting of five terabytes of data. And, at the time, it seemed like a massive amount of data. While…