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Fog Computing: Distributing Intelligence and Data Collection to Edge Computing Elements

By Dick Weisinger

Fog computing is the distribution of computing tasks and ability to take actions to the computers that are closer to where data is being captured.  It means that less data gets sent back to central cloud computers and the processing…

Data Lakes: Recipe for Big Data Success or Roadblock to Data Analysis?

By Dick Weisinger

The Data Lakes Market is expected to grow from $2.53 billion to $8.81 billion over the next five years, at an average yearly growth rate of more than 28 percent, according to an estimate by analyst firm MarketsandMarkets.  The analysis breaks…

Innersourcing: Enterprises’ Closed Version of Open Source

By Dick Weisinger

Inner source.  It’s not something related to zen or meditation.  It’s a term coined by Tim O’Reilly that describes how enterprises are applying open source practices to enterprise software development. Business development teams are becoming more collaborative, shipping early before software…

Open Source: Businesses Readily Adopt Open Source but Often Don’t Track its Use or Patch Vulnerabilities

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source software permeates infrastructure and software development projects almost everywhere.  A survey by Black Duck and North Bridge found that 65 percent of organizations now say that they’re using open source as part of their development and 55 percent…

Enterprise Apps: Businesses Turn to Low-Code Development

By Dick Weisinger

The application development market is expected to reach $15.4 billion by 2020, according to a report by Forrester.  Forrester identifies five market segments of the app development market: general-purpose platforms, and platforms for process, database, request handling and mobile applications. As…