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Technology: IPv6 is the New Normal

By Dick Weisinger

Last week on June 6th was launch day for IPv6 (celebrated on the sixth day of the sixth month).  Major ISPs and Internet companies around the world turned on IPv6, the next-generation networking addressing technology. Every device connecting to the…

Big Data: Companies Draw up Plans for Using Big Data

By Dick Weisinger

A surprisingly large number, 70 percent, of organizations are currently considering how Big Data projects can help their business.  20 percent of companies of companies in that group are already using Big Data on projects, 13 percent are piloting the…

Open Source: Applying the Success of Open Source to Hardware

By Dick Weisinger

The success of Open Source Software is now beginning to influence how people approach hardware too.  Get ready for an equivalent revolution on the hardware side. Open Source hardware (OSHW) follows the same philosophy and licensing of technical information for…

Cloud Computing: Use of the Cloud and Mobile Improves Disaster Preparedness

By Dick Weisinger

Benefits liike greater flexibility and cost savings are often attributed to new technologies like virtualization, the cloud and mobile.  But there may be another hidden benefit for using these technologies.  That’s better preparedness for disasters.  A recent study by Symantec…

Big Data: Unlocking Meaning from Unstructured/Dark Data

By Dick Weisinger

Interest in both Big Data and analytics has dramatically increased over the last couple of years.  Some indication of their popularity can be seen using Google Trends, where we see large increases in the number of searches that were made…