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Technology and Computing: Google Challenges Nvidia with TPU Chip

By Dick Weisinger

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are specialized computer chips that are designed to be able to handle large-scale parallel processing.  Nvidia first introduced the concept of GPUs in 1999 for use in video cards to quickly display images on PCs.  Since then, the…

Data Centers: Growth of the Cloud Deflates On-Premise Data Centers

By Dick Weisinger

While growth of data centers at the large cloud vendors is growing dramatically, on-premise data centers are down-sizing, consolidating, hollowing out, or being completely shut down. 2015 was the peak for the number of global data centers, according to IDC.…

Software Development: Small Groups Write Better Code

By Dick Weisinger

Small groups of programmers tend to produce the most secure code, compared to programmer groups of more than 20 contributors, according to the 2017 CRASH Report.  But the problem is that when software grows big, small groups of developers can’t…

Tieto and Formtek Team to Offer Alfresco-Based Engineering Data Management Solutions in Europe

By Dick Weisinger

Formtek, Inc., a leading provider of document and content management software and services, announced today that it has signed a Partnership Agreement with Tieto. Tieto is an IT Software and Services Company headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. With approximately 14,000 employees…

Cyber Security: Number of Breaches Way up in 2016. Incident Reporting is More Frequent, but so the the Frequency of Hacking

By Dick Weisinger

2016 was not a good year for cyber security. Major reported data breaches in 2016 hit a record high of  1093, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). That’s a 40 percent jump over the number of incidents reported…