Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy creates a more sustainable future with wind power, AI and the cloud
With towers as high as 120 meters (390 feet) and rotor blades that span the height of a 22-story building, industrial wind turbines are challenges to inspect and maintain. Traditionally, a wind turbine blade inspection required technicians to rappel down a stopped turbine in remote areas – sometimes at sea – to take pictures of […]
NetSuite and Visa Make Getting Paid Easier
According to the McKinsey Global Institute, almost 30 percent of the working age population in the U.S. and Europe derive some or all of their income from independent work. In case you are wondering, that’s more than 160 million people or, put another way, more than the entire populations of the U.K. and Germany combined. […]
Cloud, IoT are sitting ducks for hackers
With more firms moving operations online, vast amounts of information in data centres provide an opportunity to cybercriminals More than 10,000 different malicious files are detected per day while 700 malware families are being used on a daily basis Malware has evolved to be more stealth-like than ever and open to almost anyone to carry […]
Millions of Facebook Records Found on Amazon Cloud Servers
Researchers at UpGuard, a cybersecurity firm, found troves of Facebook user information hiding in plain sight, inadvertently posted publicly on Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing servers. The discovery shows that a year after the Cambridge Analytica scandal exposed how unsecure and widely disseminated Facebook users’ information is online, companies that control that information at every step still haven’t done […]
Top IT spending priorities for 2019
By: Sharon Florentine The CIO role continues to grow, thanks in large part to digital transformation, with IT executives adding new responsibilities, ranging from data analytics to product development, according to our 2019 State of the CIO. To meet these goals and continue to innovate, savvy IT leaders must carefully decide which tech investments to […]
The AI Roles Some Companies Forget to Fill
Megan Beck Thomas H. Davenport Barry Libert AI is almost everywhere in the news today, and the drive to create and implement AI solutions is creating an enormous talent gap. An estimated 80% of companies are already investing in AI and most are facing challenges hiring the capabilities they need to implement a useful AI […]
Bill Gates on 2019’s five breakthrough healthcare technologies
The Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist’s choices for the healthcare innovations that have the potential to change the world range from personalized cancer vaccines to voice assistants. The MIT Technology Review’s enlisted Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates to help create its list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies for 2019 for its March/April issue and […]
Top 4 Enterprise Tech Trends to Watch for in 2019
By: Kamy Anderson Enterprises have become dependent on tech now more than ever. There are countless cutting-edge solutions incorporated into their internal and external process. These range from automation to digitization of the entire workflow. Staying tuned to current developments in the IT field allows organizations to stay on top of new technology implementations and […]
Retail AI: Death By A Thousand Cuts
When people say “AI software”, what do they really mean? This is a critically important question to understanding the impact that AI can have on the retail industry (on any industry, really), and a significant source of the gap that exists between AI hype and reality. While McKinsey focuses on AI types of classification, prediction, […]
How to Reduce ERP Security Risks
Sean Michael Kerner Sean Michael Kerner is an Internet consultant, strategist, and contributor to several leading IT business web sites. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are among the most critical enterprise applications that an organization operates and as such, they represent a lucrative target for attackers. In a session at the RSA Conference last week, […]