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Cognitive Computing: Big Investment in Computers That Can Think

By Dick Weisinger

Cognitive computing was identified by IDC as one of six “innovative accelerators”.  Spending on cognitive systems is expected to reach $31.3 billion in 2019 and is growing at a rate of 55 percent. Cognitive computing attempts to simulate human thought with…

Cloud Computing: Apple, DropBox and Spotify All Pull Data Out From Amazon AWS

By Dick Weisinger

Amazon AWS is at the top of the cloud computing industry and has good reason to celebrate this tenth anniversary year of their business.  AWS is the biggest public cloud provider and also had better uptime performance compared to Google…

IT Spending: CIOs Focus on Big Data for Offense and Security for Defense

By Dick Weisinger

CIOs today are focused on two things: Big Data and analytics.  Investments are strong in both of these areas.  Security for defense, to defend against risks to the business, and big data and analytics for offense, to grow the business…

Internet of Things (IoT): Traditional IT Architectures Will Evolve to Become More Decentralized

By Dick Weisinger

20 billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020 and ready to send and receive data, according to a forecast by Gartner.  The amount of data generated by these devices will be unprecedented and dwarf the amount of…

Algorithmic Economy: Forget Big Data. Algorithms Trump Data Any Day

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses in all industries are increasingly turning to high tech for innovation and as the fuel for achieving high growth.  Algorithms have become the secret recipe for today’s business successes.  Algorithms today are sophisticated and enable businesses to understand their…