Global high-speed connectivity, smart technology infused into every business function, consumers and customers linked and empowered through social media, and Big Data generated by the Internet of Things throughout one’s ecosystem and value chain – […]
Businesses should embrace real-time, insight-led decision making and what Accenture is calling “Intelligent Operations” if they are to be fit for the future. This was the conclusion of a new research study that Accenture undertook […]
Cloud computing has been a hot topic among federal CIOs and their staffers in recent years. In response to the Obama Administration’s “Cloud First Initiative” announced in 2011, the US government has significantly reduced the […]
The concept of virtualization in the IT world has been around for a long time. Looking at the three main pillars of infrastructure: compute, network, and storage, computer virtualization dates back to 1964 with the […]
When Juniper Research estimated last year that the number of IoT (Internet of Things) connected devices will increase 285 percent from 13.4 billion in 2015 to 38.5 billion in 2020, it confirmed what everyone already […]
Imagine taking a walk in a park and as you walk all the different objects you notice are both living and nonliving. You notice these objects using all the different sensory devices within a human […]
Alvin Toffler first predicted that the rate of technological change and progress was accelerating faster than people are ready for, or can handle, in his 1970 bestseller, Future Shock. Future shock, he argues, causes disorientation, […]
It is hard enough to make sense of things when you are in the middle of the action. Harder yet is to perceive the reality behind events that do not conform to your worldview. It […]
“An object that is at rest will stay at rest unless an external force acts upon it” (Wikipedia, 2015). This is Isaac Newton’s first law of motion. In the IT world, we can make the […]
Converged infrastructure (CI) describes the practice by storage, network, and server vendors to offer a joint, pretested, preintegrated platform. Server virtualization also plays heavily in such converged environments. The result of CI is a highly […]