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Satellites as a Service: Amazon AWS Pushes the Envelope of Utility Computing to Space

By Dick Weisinger

Amazon AWS brings new meaning to SaaS.  It’s Satellite as a Service, actually named AWS Ground Service. Ground Station attempts to make the world of satellite data capture and processing into a utility service, something that can be easily turned…

Data Center Automation: Greater Speed with Reduced Costs and Complexity

By Dick Weisinger

Data center automation is the improvement and speeding of operations within a data center facility. It involves the automation, monitoring and maintenance of tasks and processes that have traditionally been handled manually by human operators.  Potential benefits include reduced staff…

Business Models: Product Roadmap Planning Trumps One-Off Project Plans

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses are re-envisioning how IT is being modeled to support their organizations.  Rather than one-off  projects, businesses instead are developing long-range views based on evolving product road maps. Kasey Panetta, Brand Content Manager at Gartner, said that “projects tend to happen…

Machine Speech: Digital Assistants and Speech-Enabled Interfaces Coming to the Workplace

By Dick Weisinger

Natural Language Interaction. It’s two-way voice communication between humans and machines. Gartner says that the technology is improving and can be expected to become increasingly used within the workplace, and not just for call center interactions. Matthew Cain, analyst at…

Artificial Intelligence: IBM Fails to Match the Watson Hype

By Dick Weisinger

Ginni Rometty, IBM CEO, said that the world is at an inflection point and beginning to move on “an exponential curve,” something that she called “Watson’s Law.” In a 2017 IBM Super Bowl commercial, actor Jon Hamm said “it is one…