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Digital Universe: The Speed of Data Creation is Rapidly Accelerating

By Dick Weisinger

The amount of digital data in the world has been doubling every two years, and is expected to increase by a factor of ten between now and 2020.  That’s an increase from 4.4 trillion gigabytes of information available today to…

Internet of Things(IoT): Vendors Attempt to Rename and Change the Spin

By Dick Weisinger

The Internet of Things(IoT) — it’s the envisioned world where everything from electric toothbrushes to hydro-electric power plants will be plugged into the internet, interconnected, monitorable and controllable, hopefully only by those with the appropriate security privileges.  Increasingly the future…

Third Platform Nexus: IT Shifts Towards Platforms Based on New Converging Technologies

By Dick Weisinger

Technology is changing the way business is done and people work.   Mobile computing, social media, cloud computing, big data,and the Internet of Things (IoT) are each having huge impacts on people’s lives, and collectively, these technologies are reforming much…

Internet of Things (IoT): Boon or Bust for Hardware Vendors?

By Dick Weisinger

While analysts are predicting billions of smart devices connected to the internet to drive a new industry, some are saying what has all the markings of a huge boon for hardware vendors is likely to turn out to be a…

Cloud Computing: Cisco to Spend $1 Billion to Build a ‘Star Alliance’ of Cloud Technology Leaders

By Dick Weisinger

Cisco has announced that it plans to spend $1 billion over the next two years in order to create a public cloud offering that they’re calling the “Intercloud“.  The new service would compete against similar services offered by Amazon Web Services…