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Fog and Edge Computing: Network Architectures that Decentralize IoT Data Collection

By Dick Weisinger

Many applications have been built with a client-server model that centralizes most of the processing and data storage on a central server.  But if huge numbers of clients are added to the network, the model breaks down when the server becomes overloaded…

Artificial Intelligence: Supply Chain Logistics to become like Self-Driving Cars

By Dick Weisinger

Artificial Intelligence has reached the point where it is being productively applied to a wide range of disciplines.  Consider supply chains. Artificial Intelligence can optimize supply chain logistics to match sales and customer demand. IDC Manufacturing Insights predicts that within five years that…

Augmented and Virtual Reality: 2017 Expected to be Breakout Year

By Dick Weisinger

Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) is set poised for rapid growth in 2017.  The market has already been growing strongly, but as the technology improves and headsets and devices become cheaper, sales are expected to boom. Jitesh Ubrani senior research…

IT and Business: IT Increasingly Aligns More Closely with Business Goals than with Technology

By Dick Weisinger

A report from the Society for Information Management surveyed businesses and found that more than ever IT is aligning with business requirements and goals.  The findings of the report include: The focus of IT increasingly is on business requirements rather…

Smart Machines: Technology to Transform the Way Businesses Work

By Dick Weisinger

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, cognitive computing, deep learning and intelligent automation.  Gartner is classifying the combination of these technologies into a category called “smart machines”.  The research firm is forecasting smart machine revenues of $29 billion by 2021 with 30…