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Technology: The Four Elements of the Technology Nexus

By Dick Weisinger

Last Thursday, we talked about Gartner’s predictions for Big Data made at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo, but Peter Sondergaard‘s keynote touched on many more technologies than Big Data.  Sondergaard talked about a “nexus of forces” — cloud, mobile, social, and  big data…

Technology: A Virtual Look at Google's Data Centers

By Dick Weisinger

There are 12 Google data centers, eight in operation in the US, Finland and Belgium and four that are under construction in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Chile.  Up until now Google has been very secretive about the operations at…

Technology Budgets: Cloud, Big Data, and Mobile Drive Growth

By Dick Weisinger

Global IT spending is on track to exceed $3.7 trillion in 2013, a 3.8 percent increase over this year, and it’s expected to hit $4 trillion in 2015.  Not too surprisingly, the technologies predicted to drive spend include big data,…

Data Centers: Going Green to Improve Costs, Efficiency and Public Image

By Dick Weisinger

Data centers are increasingly going ‘green’.  The annual global market for green data centers is projected to grow to $45.4 billion by 2016 from the current $17.1 billion at a growth rate of 28 percent. Eric Woods, senior analyst at Pike…

Technology: The Coming of the Technological Singularity

By Dick Weisinger

It’s called the ‘technological singularity’, or sometimes just the ‘singularity’.  It’s the point in the future where machine intelligence has matured so far as to be on par with or superior to human intelligence.  It’s an idea that was first…