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Adaptive Intelligence: Optimizing Data to Maximize Business Value

By Dick Weisinger

About one year ago Forrester named the top technologies trends for 2014.  Number five on their list was about businesses adopting analytics by apply adaptive intelligence. Just what is adaptive intelligence, and what impact has it had during the course…

Cybersecurity: Costs for Responding to Security Breaches Spikes

By Dick Weisinger

As the waves of cyber breaches continue to grow in strength, the associated costs of trying to defend against them and the costs of cleaning up after a breach occurs are continuing to grow. Responding to security breaches are expensive.…

Big Data Analytics and IoT: Glassbeam Harnesses Spark

By Dick Weisinger

Glassbeam announced today the integration of their Internet of Things (IoT) analytics platform called SCALAR with Apache Spark. Glassbeam is a five-year old machine data analytics company that has built a cloud-based analytics platform specifically designed for analyzing large amounts of…

Container Technology/Flocker: Simplifying the Migration of Apps and Data Servers

By Dick Weisinger

Moving an application installed on one machine to another one has traditionally been a tedious task.  But ClusterHQ provides an elegant solution to the problem that they’re calling Flocker, and today they are announcing an update to that solution, release 0.3.…

Microservices: A new Brand of SOA?

By Dick Weisinger

Breaking something big down into smaller easier-to-manage components is a best-practice design technique that applies to many disciplines, especially software engineering.  The idea’s not necessarily new, but it is at the heart of a design approach being promoted recently called…