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Big Data: Successful Big Data Projects Focus on Business Requirements

By Dick Weisinger

How do you measure success with Big Data?  One metric clearly is whether or not the projects Big Data is used with are profitable.  A recent study of Big Data projects by Capgemini found that less than one third of…

Data Security: Tech Businesses Adopt Encryption to Avoid Government Requests

By Dick Weisinger

Free email.  Free chat.  Free online storage.  Consumers have had a lot of free online services available.  But the tradeoff is that the information was also available to the vendor hosting or enabling the free use of that data.  Business…

Data Analytics and HealthCare: Delivering Health as a Service (HaaS)

By Dick Weisinger

Data analytics and “as a service”-based apps are slowly transforming the way that healthcare is provided.  The biggest segment of the Big Data as a Service market is in health care and is valued at $1.09 billion in 2015, according…

Cloud Computing: It’s More About the Race to the Top, Rather Than One to the Bottom

By Dick Weisinger

Amazon has dropped AWS cloud service prices more than 50 times in it’s history as it tries to keep ahead of cloud rivals Google and Microsoft.  A January headline in the Register read “Amazon, Azure and Google in race to the…

Automation: Bots Now Account for Half of All Internet Traffic and many are Malicious

By Dick Weisinger

Bots are software applications that can automate tasks, like setting alarms and notifications, booking travel or searching out shopping and weather information.  Bots have the potential to bring great time-saving benefits.  Somewhat amazing, by one estimate, bots already take up…