As this unusual year draws to a close, experts discuss how the role of IT professionals continues to change due to AI and automation – and explain what's on the horizon for 2021. IT professionals have seen their jobs shift significantly in recent years due to a variety of factors, including an increasing amount of [...]
If you decide to grow your knowledge of software-defined data centre technologies, VMware, Nuage Networks and Microsoft offer courses and certifications to get you up to speed. As virtualization becomes more prevalent in data centres, it's important that you keep your technology knowledge bank up to date. Though you can do your own research, it [...]
Big data is making headway in every corner of the business world. Industries worldwide have seen a substantial increase in volume, variety and velocity of data. Each passing year witnesses almost two-fold increase in data most of which comes from IoT. According to IDC, worldwide revenues for big data and business analytics will grow more [...]
How can your company modernize its digital strategy to be more competitive? That's an excellent question, and I think it's one that not enough CEOs are asking themselves, their boards, or their leadership teams. There was some interesting research that came out a little while ago from Forrester, the market research company. They found that [...]
When one thinks about home and family security, the first thought is to take up residence in a secure location—ideally, a guarded and gated community. The second is to carefully secure the perimeter of the house: the doors and windows—the points of ingress. Sensors are wired to each opening, cameras and motion detectors are aimed [...]
Global acceptance of digital commerce, cloud, managed, and networked services and the resultant need to rapidly conduct business across a constantly changing landscape of providers, applications, and services has businesses scrambling to keep up. Businesses are transforming into smart users of connected devices, applications and technologies and yet the metrics that are used to monitor [...]
As cloud technology, BYOD (bring your own device), virtualization and the Internet of Things (IoT) become mainstream, IT practices, systems and infrastructures are transforming radically. Networks have evolved thanks to technology such as the cloud and virtualization, and more data and applications are serving in corporate environments as a result of mobile workers, BYOD and [...]
Today, my workspace is on a transcontinental flight on American Airlines. Tomorrow, it will be in a cozy corner of the Moscone Centre. Over the course of the next 24 hours alone, my workspace will probably connect to over four different Wi-Fi networks and three different devices, both personal and corporate owned. The idea of [...]
