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IT Talent: Insight into Technology Among Executives is Low

By Dick Weisinger

While IT technology is regularly transforming and changing rapidly, it’s increasingly difficult for the IT workforce to keep pace with the changes in technology.  In particular, there is increasing demand for workers with skillsets and knowledge related to technologies like…

Microservices: Enabled by the Cloud, Fast Networks, Containers, and REST/JSON Simplicity

By Dick Weisinger

Microservices are lightweight fine-grained services that can be deployed with middleware or brokers.  The idea behind the approach has been around for some time, but a convergence of technologies, like the cloud, containers and REST/JSON services is making the approach…

Super Computing: Reaching Towards Exascale Computing

By Dick Weisinger

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it plans to spend $425 million to build two new supercomputers.  The computers will use a technology called GPU acceleration which will enable them to be at least three times more powerful…

Cloud Computing: The Rise of the Mega Datacenter

By Dick Weisinger

Data centers as we know them are rapidly changing and, in many cases, and will actually start to disappear.  IDC is predicting that the total number of data centers will peak in 2017 at 8.6 million.  After that, even though…

Networking: Wi-Fi Speeds to go into Acceleration as 802.11ac Standard Rolls Out

By Dick Weisinger

IEEE 802.11ac is a wireless networking standard which is positioned to succeed the 802.11n standard used by today’s home and office wireless routers over the last five years.  The new standard has been under development since 2011 and was officially…