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Data and Computations: (Bandwidth + Compute Power + Algorithms + Collaboration) = Turbocharged Research

By Dick Weisinger

The process of research can often be laboriously slow, often taking many years to even mark small steps forward.  But new technology is increasingly being applied by researchers work to greatly speed up the research process.  Increased bandwidth and compute

Security: xDTM — Standardizing Digital Transactions

By Dick Weisinger

In 2000, the federal government decreed that “A document or signature cannot be denied legal effect or enforceability solely because it is in electronic form” in the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act. Businesses are increasingly looking to digital transactions as a way to

File Formats: New Open Source Audio File Format Enables Easier Track Mixing

By Dick Weisinger

A new audio file format has been introduced by German-based-company Native Instruments.  The new open source format is called Stems and is unique because it allows an audio recording to be split into separate tracks or “stems”, like for bass,

Data Virtualization: Abstracting Cloud and On-Premise Data into a Single Logical Access Point

By Dick Weisinger

Data virtualization is a method that allows the administration and access to heterogeneous sources of data as if they were a single source.  At the core of data virtualization is the abstraction layer that provides a unified access to disparate

Data Storage: Bit Rot Threatens to Leave Behind a Digital Dark Age

By Dick Weisinger

Vint Cerf, a “father of the Internet” and now Google Vice President, is warning that we’re at risk of losing massive amounts data to future generations.  Our current culture might well become a “digital dark age” mystery to historians. Cerf