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Big Data: Lack of Right Skill Sets Trip Up Many Big Data Projects

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data is on the top of the radar for many businesses, and there are plenty of tools being sold to help collect and analyze massive amounts of data.  But also topping the list of challenges for these businesses is a…

Internet of Things (IoT): The Number of Connected IoT Devices Expected to Grow Exponentially

By Dick Weisinger

McDonald’s restaurants used to count the number of hamburgers sold.  In 1962 they hit one million.  By the mid-1970’s they were counting in the billions.  In 1976 it was 20 billion.  The signage displayed on the golden arch logo at…

Big Data: Market on Target to Exceed $50 billion by 2019

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data, particularly Big Data software, is on target to become a $50 billion business by 2019.  IDC reports that Big Data as an industry is growing at a 23 percent growth rate. A forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC)…

SOA: An Architectural Foundation of Re-usability and Scalability

By Dick Weisinger

The Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) market size was $5.7 billion in 2013 and is expected to grow to $15.1 billion in 2019 and reach $16.4 billion in 2020, based on a report by Winter Green Research.  Driving much of the growth is…

Big Data and Nomadic Computing: Speeding up Analytics of Complex Data Sets

By Dick Weisinger

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) are developing ways to speed up analytics processing of massive data sets.  One of the techniques developed by the university team is called nomadic computing.…