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Digital Transformation: Digital Transformation isn’t Coming Quickly Enough for Many Businesses

By Dick Weisinger

The question is how to get from here to there.  Businesses like Google and Amazon have set the bar high for what consumers expect from businesses in terms of digital interactions.  Many businesses realize that their current processes need to…

Internet of Things: Spiraling Data Costs May Temper IoT Growth

By Dick Weisinger

IoT is coming, but are we ready?  The infrastructure needed to support the data generated by billions of IoT devices will be potentially staggering in size compared to today’s infrastructure.  Data network and communication costs can become expensive quickly. Tom Hunt,…

Blockchain: Banks Begin to Experiment with Blockchain Distributed Ledgers

By Dick Weisinger

Bitcoin has popularized the underlying technology that enables the currency called the blockchain.  Blockchain is a kind of “distributed ledger”.  There’s not a single entity or overseer that manages and maintains a master copy of the information, like a bank.…

Cognitive Computing: Big Investment in Computers That Can Think

By Dick Weisinger

Cognitive computing was identified by IDC as one of six “innovative accelerators”.  Spending on cognitive systems is expected to reach $31.3 billion in 2019 and is growing at a rate of 55 percent. Cognitive computing attempts to simulate human thought with…

SuperComputing: Is Quantum Computing on the Horizon?

By Dick Weisinger

Bill Gates recently told Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) that he is excited about the prospects of quantum cloud computing. He said that “Microsoft and others are working on quantum computing. It isn’t clear when it will work or become mainstream. There…