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Next Generation Databases: Real-Time Scale-Out Relational Processing

By Dick Weisinger

As databases grow, the most common way to stay pace with more data, more transactions, and more load is to scale-up the database hardware. Scaling up involves adding more CPU power, more memory and more and faster disks. But as…

Federal IT: Top Priorities are Reduced Costs and Improved Security

By Dick Weisinger

Cisco’s recently released their 2013 annual report on the state of “connected government”. Cisco’s vision of Connected Government is one where “authorized information flows freely across agency, partner, and public boundaries, services reach constituents when and where they are needed,…

Internet of Things: A Vision of True Interconnectedness

By Dick Weisinger

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a world where vast numbers of objects are tagged in a way that will enable them to be managed, inventoried, queried and controlled. For example, items are now being tagged with technologies like RFID,…

Small Business Technology: Small Businesses Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks

By Dick Weisinger

Small businesses today are rapidly adopting new-technology gadgets and widgets, often at a pace comparatively faster than larger businesses. Siamak Farah, CEO of InfoStreet, said that “The cloud is famous for ‘anytime, anywhere’ access on any device. While, today, this…

Cloud Computing: Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) to Displace Private Clouds?

By Dick Weisinger

Security is one of the biggest challenge that many organizations need to address before being able to adopt cloud computing. Many businesses are coming to the conclusion that they need to steer clear of the public cloud and adopt a…