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ITaaS: Managing IT as a Separate Business Entity

By Dick Weisinger

IT as a Service (ITaaS) is a business operational model where the IT group is run as a separate entity from the rest of the organization, serving Line of Business (LOB) groups within the organization as its customers.  Often the…

New Hardware: Enabler of IoT Innovation

By Dick Weisinger

Analysts have been all over the Internet of Things (IoT), predicting how billions and billions of dollars will be spent connecting billions and billions of devices.  But don’t confuse IoT with the many advances that we’re seeing with new hardware…

CAD Software: An $8 Billion Market

By Dick Weisinger

The CAD software market is currently an $8 billion market with 5.15 million users, estimates Jon Peddie Research.  The market is expected to grow to $8.7 billion by 2017 at an annual growth rate of 4 percent. By company, the…

Silicon Photonics: Speeding Data Transfer between Computing Resources

By Dick Weisinger

New optical chip technology being introduced by IBM enables information to be transferred at speeds as high as 100 Gbps (bits per second).  Tests with the chip show that data can be transferred over a two kilometer distance using pulses of…

Internet of Living Things (IoLT): Wiring Up People and Pets to the Internet

By Dick Weisinger

The idea of the Internet of Things (IoT) is that everything can be wired up with sensors to transmit data, and communicate and respond via a connection over the internet.  Typical examples of devices that can be enabled for IoT include mobile…