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Mobile Development: Creating Standards for Mobile Apps

By Dick Weisinger

Smartphones are everywhere, including most businesses and organizations.  Increasingly businesses are rolling out business apps for mobile devices, but until now there hasn’t been a standard approach for how mobile apps can be managed and secured for business use.  The…

Internet of Things (IoT): Number of Connected Vehicles on Roads to Increase Rapidly

By Dick Weisinger

By 2020, Gartner expects that there will be about a quarter billion connected cars, vehicles on the road connected to the internet. James F. Hines, research director at Gartner, said that “the connected car is already a reality, and in-vehicle…

Technology: Server Market Continues Steady Growth

By Dick Weisinger

While not stunning, IDC reports that the worldwide growth in the server market in fourth quarter 2014 increased to $14.5 billion at the end of 2014 ($50.9 billion for all of 2014), showing a solid annual growth rate of over…

Big Data: Speeding up Big Data Processing with Apache Spark

By Dick Weisinger

Apache Spark is quickly gaining a strong following among Big Data users.  The big advantage of using Spark is that it allows in-memory processing which greatly speeds up the ingestion and processing of data.  Spark is also a bit more…

Security: Employees Are Greatest Risk to Business Cyber Security

By Dick Weisinger

Careless and negligent employees are viewed as a top security risk by many companies now.  A report by Ponemon and Lumension found that 78 percent of businesses expressed that view.  Additionally, the increasing number of employees working from their home…