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Cloud Computing: IBM and Oracle Cloud Businesses Fail to Impress

By Dick Weisinger

Oracle and IBM.  Big names.  Big vendors.  But are they being dropped from the pack? Mark Murphy, analyst at JPMorgan, said in June 2018 that “only 6.5% of vendors voted for Oracle as being indispensable to their operations. At the…

Humans and Technology: Transforming Us for the Better?

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner recently outlined five areas where technology is transforming humanity. Mike J. Walker, research vice president at Gartner, said that “business and technology leaders will continue to face rapidly accelerating technology innovation that will profoundly impact the way they engage…

Memory Chips: How Small Can They Go?

By Dick Weisinger

Peter Lee, a vice-president at Microsoft Research, said that “there’s a law about Moore’s law: The number of people predicting the death of Moore’s law doubles every two years.” How small can we go?  Scientists had thought that they’re hitting…

Data Centers: Building Out the Oceans with Data Centers

By Dick Weisinger

Microsoft is experimenting with cleaner and more efficient ways of building data centers. In their most recent experiment they’ve dropped into the ocean near the Orkney Islands a mini data center housed in a structure the size of a shipping…

5G: Next Generation Mobile Rolls out to 11 US Cities in 2018

By Dick Weisinger

5G is coming soon to your city. Eleven cities in the US will have 5G options before the end of 2018.  The cities include Sacramento, Seattle, Atlanta and Washington D.C. Daniel Gleeson, analyst at Ovum, said that “5G is the…