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Solid: Making our Physical World Computable

By Dick Weisinger

The separation between physical and virtual worlds is blurring.  O’Reilly is calling this melded world ‘Solid’. Jon Bruner of O’Reilly Media, said that “software can replace physical complexity… the relationship between the physical and virtual worlds is becoming more fluid. Input tools…

High Performance Computing: Applying Supercomputing to the World’s Most Difficult Problems

By Dick Weisinger

High Performance Computing (HPC) is the term applied to computers that are the fastest and most-cutting edge in their abilities to parse and solve very complex problems.  As computing machines become ever more sophisticated and capable, the bar continually rises…

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…

Digital Businesses: Full Commitment to Digital Technology Yields Best Results

By Dick Weisinger

Only 21 percent of CEOs have a clear vision for how digital technologies can be used to help their businesses.  That’s one of the major finding of a report on digital strategies by Forrester Research. The Forrester report said that…

Future Data Centers: Smaller and Embedded in Neighborhoods

By Dick Weisinger

What will Data Centers look like 10 years from now?  Emerson Network Power recently surveyed Data Center professionals to get an idea about how they think that their industry will change. Steve Hassell, President, Data Center Solutions at Emerson, summarized…