Category: Trends

April 23, 2018

In early 2017, President Obama’s top economic and science advisors wrote a report entitled, “Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Economy.” The report is a cleared-eyed collation of current data and predictions pertaining to the accelerating pace of adoption of automation […]

April 23, 2018

Cloud BI adoption is soaring in 2018, nearly doubling 2016 adoption levels. Over 90% of sales and marketing teams say that cloud BI is essential for getting their work done in 2018, leading all categories in the survey. 66% of […]

April 20, 2018

Google recently introduced a new set of tools aimed at improving security within the Google Cloud Platform. There are several new features and products available. Here’s an overview of the new GCP security features. VPC Service Controls Google’s new VPC […]

April 19, 2018

Facebook is overhauling the Oculus privacy policy and terms of service as the company prepares to launch its first standalone VR headset. The change comes amid new European privacy regulations and an international movement calling into question Facebook’s platform and […]

April 18, 2018

IBM has released a security library designed to help protect artificial intelligence (AI) systems into the open-source community. On Tuesday at the RSA conference in San Francisco, IBM announced the launch of the Adversarial Robustness Toolbox to support developers and […]

April 17, 2018

With the latest releases of vSphere and vSAN, VMware continues to build up support for customers interested in hybrid cloud options. The updates included in vSphere 6.7, VMware’s hypervisor and virtualization management platform, fall into four categories: enhancing performance, providing […]

April 16, 2018

Cisco is updating its AMP endpoint security platform with new email security services, and expanded capabilities designed to protect employee devices from ransomware, cryptomining, and fileless malware. AMP for Endpoint combines prevention, detection and response technologies using Cisco’s threat-centric security […]

April 16, 2018

Are companies maximizing their data analytics programs, moving into machine learning, or are they still not sure what to do with the latest technology to drive results and improve the bottom line? That big question was the focus of the […]

April 13, 2018

VMware just announced some updates meant to improve the experience of its VMware Workspace ONE platform, a digital workspace service that’s available for both cloud and on-premises deployments. The updates include two major areas of innovation: Workspace ONE Intelligence and […]

April 12, 2018

Cloud-based AI services continue to grow in popularity, thanks to their low cost, easy-to-use integration and potential to create complex services. In the words of Daniel Hulme, senior research associate at UCL, “cloud-based solutions are cheaper, more flexible and more […]

April 11, 2018

Two weeks ago I covered a series of announcements from GPU powerhouse Nvidia, around new AI-focused products. Among these announcements was a partnership around the integration of certain Nvidia technology into ARM chip designs, specifically to deliver optimized AI processing […]

April 11, 2018

For Microsoft, 2017 was a mixed year. The stellar performance of Azure and Office 365, the release of Xbox One X and Windows Mixed Reality devices, and two major updates to Windows 10 are some of the achievements notched by […]

April 10, 2018

Google has touted itself as the first public cloud provider to run all its clouds on renewable energy. The company, which says it is the largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy in the world – almost three times as much […]

April 6, 2018

Microsoft has admitted the speed in which the CLOUD Act was enacted was ‘a bit of a shock’ – but added there was more to do to protect users’ privacy rights across borders. The act, which stands for ‘clarifying lawful […]

April 6, 2018

More and more, hybrid multi-cloud is generally accepted to be the IT architecture of the future. Only multi-cloud offers the flexibility, the scalability and the security benefits that modern businesses demand. But a decision to embrace a multi-cloud-first strategy is […]

April 5, 2018

Just a couple of months after rolling out Files Restore for OneDrive for Business, Microsoft is bringing the same capability to OneDrive for consumers. In January, Microsoft announced that OneDrive for Business Files Restore would be coming to Office 365 […]

April 4, 2018

Cisco recently released numerous patches for over 20 vulnerabilities that were a part of its semiannual “Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication” event. According to the press release, most of these vulnerabilities affect Cisco IOS Software […]

April 4, 2018

When you’re driving a car, you’re invested with a sense of purpose: stay alert, don’t crash, optimize your route for the fastest and most comfortable experience. But what about when self-driving cars become the norm, and we’re no longer involved […]

April 3, 2018

The way we deliver content today has fundamentally changed. New solutions are pushing applications, desktops and services into an even more distributed architecture. Consider this, the latest State of the Data Center Industry report indicated that four in ten respondents […]

April 2, 2018

(Bloomberg) –The scandal over the alleged abuse of Facebook Inc.’s user data is unfolding a long way from China, and yet privacy regulators in Beijing have been watching intently. Their interest shows how all three big players in the technology […]