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Big Data: Analytics Backbone for the Internet of Things (IoT)

By Dick Weisinger

Refrigerators that can report their food-stock inventory, thermostats that self-regulate based on your habits and routines, basements that tweet you when they flood.  These are the kinds of things that an emerging technology called the Internet of Things (IoT) is…

Technology is 'Amplifying' the Enterprise, but Diminishing IT

By Dick Weisinger

What’s on the top of the minds of CIO’s going into 2012?  One thing is the budget.  Outside of bright spots in South America and a few areas in Asia, the continued poor economy is causing many global IT budgets…

Technology: Linux Servers a Favorite at Fortune 500 companies

By Dick Weisinger

20 years since Linux’s first release, and IDC says that Linux has become a billion dollar segment of the software industry. The Linux Foundation has recently released a summary of the result of a survey on Linux usage.  Currently, Linux…

Social Media: Revolutions to Hit Businesses Next

By Dick Weisinger

2011 was the year that Social Media tools shook nations across the globe.   There were daily headlines from Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, China and Russia.  Back in the US, the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement swept cities and created confrontations.  It’s…

Big Data: The Ground Hog Cycle for In-Memory Computing

By Dick Weisinger

In Gartner’s list of top-10 strategic technologies for 2012, it lists In-Memory Computing at number eight.  Just what is that, and what’s the benefit of using it? Quite simply it is adding large amounts of available memory to computers to…