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Big Data: Analytics Backbone for the Internet of Things (IoT)

By Dick Weisinger

Refrigerators that can report their food-stock inventory, thermostats that self-regulate based on your habits and routines, basements that tweet you when they flood.  These are the kinds of things that an emerging technology called the Internet of Things (IoT) is…

Open Source: Commercial Software Loses Ground

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source is now a competitive mainstream alternative for many business applications and the rise of Open Source is becoming a threat to proprietary software. A decade ago, Open Source was not well understood and considered by many organizations to…

Cloud Computing: How Long Can the Hype Continue?

By Dick Weisinger

Much of the talk at the start of a new year focuses on trends expected to happen during the upcoming 12 months. But let’s consider what’s happened over the last 12 months in the cloud computing landscape.   There were definitely…

Cloud Storage: Organizations Weigh Pros versus Cons

By Dick Weisinger

To use cloud storage, or not to.  What’s driving enterprises to decide one way or the other? In mid-2011, based on a survey from TheInfoPro, less than 10 percent of Fortune 1000 companies had any plans for storing data in…

Cloud Computing: Scientists Interested, but find the Cloud isn't Ready for 'Heavy' Scientific Computing

By Dick Weisinger

Two government laboratories, Argonne and Lawrence Berkeley Labs (LBNL), recently decided to give public cloud computing a kick in the cloud’s tires to see whether or not they’d be able to use the cloud to handle some of their scientific…