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Shadow IT and Cloud Computing: Users Take Risks for Better Productivity

By Dick Weisinger

Shadow IT is the introduction and use of non-approved IT systems inside organizations.  It is a grass-roots effort by employees to use tools and applications that they think can help them get their jobs done more quickly or more efficiently…

Fog Computing: Computing Platform for the Internet of Everything

By Dick Weisinger

Fog Computing, sometimes called Edge Computing, is computing that is done on local connected devices.  It’s a concept that Cisco in particular has been promoting.  The idea is an alternative or complement to cloud computing.  Rather than moving data back…

High Performance Computing: Applying Supercomputing to the World’s Most Difficult Problems

By Dick Weisinger

High Performance Computing (HPC) is the term applied to computers that are the fastest and most-cutting edge in their abilities to parse and solve very complex problems.  As computing machines become ever more sophisticated and capable, the bar continually rises…

Internet of Things (IoT): Balancing Security and Privacy with the Technology Benefits

By Dick Weisinger

By 2020, the total world of interconnected devices, the Internet of Things, will reach 212 billion, according to IDC.  This year alone, 1.7 billion PCs, tablets and smartphones are expected to be shipped.  This growing base of interconnected devices causes…

Cyber Security: Cost of Data Breaches Rise

By Dick Weisinger

Data breaches.  Not only are they becoming more frequent, the damage that they inflict is growing.  A study by IBM conducted by the Ponemon Institute found that the average total cost globally of a data breach increased 15 percent in…