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Technology: Internet Addresses Running on Low

By Dick Weisinger

A serious pinch to the every expanding internet is expected to hit this summer.  The supply of Internet Protocol addresses has been dwindling and will totally dry up this summer.  An IP address is a short series of numbers with…

Cloud-based Data Warehousing: Snowflake, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Redshift

By Dick Weisinger

Data warehousing traditionally required a company to extract and download huge volumes of data from various business software systems into a central repository for analysis.  The process to prep the data was slow which meant that the analysis was always run against…

Businesses Clean House Replacing Legacy Apps: One-Quarter Want to Replace Workflow and Document Management

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses are itching to modernize their IT and business applications, according to a survey by Hitachi Consulting.  90 percent of businesses say that they have to deal with legacy applications that are holding them back.  More than one third say…

Software-Defined Enterprise: Metanautix Quest Software-Defined Data Mart

By Dick Weisinger

A combination of Analytics, Cloud and Mobile are revolutionizing the way many enterprises work.  The fuel that’s powering these technologies is software and data.  The movement towards software started with software-defined servers or server virtualization, but it didn’t stop there.…

3D Printing: Enabling Rapid Product Creation and Small Runs of Highly Custom Products

By Dick Weisinger

Use of 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, is ramping up quickly based on a report by Sculpteo, a 3D printing company.  68 percent of current users of 3D printing are planning to increase their spending in 2015, and…