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Internet of Things (IoT): Redesigning Networks to Support Ever Growing Data Transmissions

By Dick Weisinger

New standards are brewing for the wireless transmission of data by Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Roughly 6.4 billion objects are online and communicating with IT addresses. In 2013 networks transmitted 113.4 ZB and are expected to generate as much as 403…

Cloud Computing: Public Cloud Gains Momentum. Azure Stumbles.

By Dick Weisinger

Use of cloud computing has become the norm for most businesses.  According to the Interop ITX 2016 State of Cloud Computing Survey, 70 percent of businesses are using SaaS, 57 percent are using IaaS, and 44 percent use PaaS. 15…

Shadow Analytics: Quicker Results, but Often at the of Cost Creating Non-Secure Siloed Data

By Dick Weisinger

Shadow IT refers to the use of apps and external IT services without consulting internal IT resources.  It’s an end-run approach that many departments are increasingly using when they feel that traditional IT “help” just gets in their way.  Increasingly,…

Cyber Security: Free Software Foundation Now Ranks Security as a Top Priority

By Dick Weisinger

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has recently updated a list of priorities of projects that they recommend developers consider. The FSF press release said that “the High Priority Projects initiative, first launched in 2005, draws attention to a relatively small number…

Robotics: Businesses to Welcome Chief Robotic Officers (CRO) to their Executive Staff

By Dick Weisinger

The commercial and industrial combined robotic market is on track to be worth more than $188 billion by 2020, according to IDC.  More than half of robots being deployed are in the discrete manufacturing sector. John Santagate, research manager of…