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Technology: 2014 is Shaping up as the (first) Year of the Connected Home

By Dick Weisinger

At this year’s 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in January, manufacturers rolled out a slew of new devices targeting home automation and control. Actually the market for connected home appliances isn’t new.  It’s already estimated to…

Manufacturing: Technology to Reshape Manufacturing

By Dick Weisinger

The top 10 IDC Predictions for the Manufacturing Industry in 2014 are as follows: Manufacturers will begin to build 3D value chains Operational, information, and consumer technology will converge to reshape the nature of manufacturing technology Operational resiliency will be…

Big Data: More Data Points that Document the Speed of the Data Deluge

By Dick Weisinger

The total amount of information available in the world, or the ‘digital universe’, is expected to double every two years from now until 2020, according to IDC research sponsored by EMC.  In 2020, there will be more than five terabytes…

Discovery: Businesses Need to Be More Proactive in Establishing Data Management Best Practices

By Dick Weisinger

Many large organizations still struggle with being able to respond to litigation and regulatory requests.  A recent survey by Control Risks and the Economist Intelligence Unit found that nearly two-thirds of organizations are not able to retrieve information requested for…

Big Data Continues to Dominate the IT Conversation in 2014

By Dick Weisinger

A report by IDG Enterprise finds that 2014 will be another year where Big Data and analytics dominate much of the IT news reporting. IDG Enterprise defines Big Data as “large volumes of a wide variety of data collected from…