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IoT and the Data Center: Tuning up Data Centers to Handle the Volumes Generated by IoT

By Dick Weisinger

The Internet of Things isn’t a fad.  Gartner predicts that the 5 billion devices connected to the Internet in 2015 will grow by a factor of five by 2020 to 25 billion, and Forrester estimates that more than 82 percent…

Cloud Computing: Cloud Technology is now the Norm and Competitive Advantage From Its Use is Shrinking

By Dick Weisinger

The world has passed you by if you haven’t yet moved to the cloud, according to a new report by Verizon.  Verizon claims that so many companies have adopted cloud technologies that using the cloud really no longer provides that…

Security: IT Blindsided by Application Defects — the Cause of Most Security Incidents

By Dick Weisinger

Despite sophisticated security defenses that many IT departments build, data breaches at companies are much more likely to originate at the application level. Frank Zinghini, CEO of Applied Visions, reported in the CodeDx Cybersecurity Market Report that “the security industry…

Security: Companies Confused When Too Many Detection Systems Used

By Dick Weisinger

Large financial institutions, as you’d expect, put a high priority on how they handle financial crime and risk management.  A recent survey by NICE Actimize found that more than half of big financial institutions have more than ten analytic and detection systems and about a third have more than…

Data Algebra: A More Rigorous and Mathematical Approach to Data Analysis

By Dick Weisinger

Data Algebra is a technique that some are saying can abstract away much of the grunge and headaches caused by many of the current tools and make managing data, especially Big Data, much easier to do.  Data algebra is a mathematical…