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CoreOS: Linux Vendors in the Crosshairs of Disruption

By Dick Weisinger

Linux distribution vendors like Red Hat, Canonical, and Suse are under threat of disruption from a repackaged and streamlined minimalist product from CoreOS. Cloud providers are intrigued with the technology, and CoreOS is now offered on AWS, Google Compute Engine, Rackspace, OpenStack…

Wearable Technologies: Not Just for Consumers

By Dick Weisinger

The market for Smart Wearable devices is expected to reach $53.2 billion by 2019, forecasts Juniper Research. The report noted “that consumers are still unsure about the use case for many wearable devices, including watches and glasses. In particular, consumers…

Cloud Computing: Lower Costs and Greater Flexibility Lead Many Organizations to the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

What does it take for mid-sized companies to consider the cloud as a viable option to long-used on-premise solutions?  That’s the question that Aberdeen Group recently took up in work sponsored by IFS. Three reasons why mid-sized companies choose to…

Social Media: Dissecting and Analyzing the Complete Twitter Stream

By Dick Weisinger

Twitter has announced that it is funding a Laboratory for Social Machines (LSM) at MIT initially with $10 million.  LSM will run as a five-year project that is dedicated to analyzing a complete archive of Twitter content, including every tweet ever…

Disruption: Five Technologies that Top the List

By Dick Weisinger

The current list of top five disruptive technologies, reported by KPGM from a 2014 survey of business leaders is as follows: 3D Printing Internet of Things (IoT) Biotech/Healthcare IT Cloud Mobile Cloud and Mobile dominate the 2013 KPGM list of…