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Artificial Intelligence: Futurists Worry of AI and Robots Going Rampant

By Dick Weisinger

Scientists, entrepreneurs, futurists and investors have joined together to issue a warning about what the future of technology may bring.  Without oversight and understanding, technology like artificial intelligence may overreach it’s intended purpose and unleash unwanted safety and social problems.…

Tech Spending 2015: Focus is on Cybersecurity

By Dick Weisinger

Cybersecurity it 2015’s top priority for most CIOs.  That’s according to a recent survey by the brokerage company Piper Jaffray. “CIOs clearly have heightened concerns from the many security breaches that occurred in 2014, resulting in an inflection in overall security spending.”…

Enterprise Software 2015: Mobility, Cloud and Open Source

By Dick Weisinger

The economy is looking up mean that business budgets will likely see healthy growth in the new year.  Forrester is predicting 4 to 6 percent growth for 2015 global IT budgets, reaching $620 billion.  Much of the growth in spending…

SaaS Pricing: SaaS Sales Models Shifting from B2B to B2C

By Dick Weisinger

More than a quarter (27.8%) of enterprise applications are expected to be SaaS-based by 2018, generating $50.8 billion, up 16% from $22.6 billion in 2013. Christine Dover, research director at IDC, said that “demand for SaaS enterprise applications is accelerating and exceeding…

Cloud Computing: Metrics for Cloud Capabilities and Performance

By Dick Weisinger

What criteria should you use in selecting a monitoring a cloud service to determine how well it is performing? Cloud metrics can provide useful information to both customers and service providers and stakeholders all understand. A recent NIST press release…