Technology News

• BrandPost: Building Resilience with Digital Transformation to Foster Enterprise Success on Cloud August 7, 2020
  Industries across the board have been looking for new models in leveraging technologies – 5G, cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT) are the most sought after – to boost efficiency and productivity while reducing costs and hiccups. Instead of just replacing some of the procedures with innovative solutions, some enterprises take further […]
• BrandPost: From Cloud Development to Datacenter Production August 7, 2020
  Considering that AI Workloads running in a public cloud – or a cloud-enabled datacenter – need comprehensive planning and in-depth analysis of cost structures, data and compute need to end up in a cost-optimized production environment.A post recently written on LinkedIn stated that, “I really don’t know a single customer of mine that doesn’t have […]
• BrandPost: Episode 2: Trust your data August 7, 2020
  CIOs and their C-suite colleagues understand the value of data in helping to identify new business opportunities, create better experiences for customers, and improve decision making across the organization. Many also realize, however, that getting maximum value from their data requires a modern architecture that is no longer limited by the scale and cost of […]
• BrandPost: Mobility in the Supply Chain: Improving Operations August 7, 2020
  Mobility requirements are mounting as supply chains grow in complexity and COVID-19 exposes the repercussions of inflexible operations. In a spring 2020 IDG survey, mobile solutions ranked third after risk management and artificial intelligence (AI) among the technologies businesses said they need to weather unplanned supply chain disruptions. Data analytics and visualization tools were close […]
• BrandPost: Managing Risk in the Supply Chain with AI August 7, 2020
  Given the global upheaval that COVID-19 has triggered, managing supply chain risk is top of mind for everyone. Improving forecast accuracy to lower risk is the sweet spot for machine learning (ML) applications in supply chains.ML is an AI application that looks for patterns, trends, and anomalies in data, the quality and accuracy of which […]
• BrandPost: Supply Chain Modernization: Overcoming Visibility Obstacles August 7, 2020
  Supply chain integration challenges are keeping some enterprises from accurately forecasting demand and predicting and mitigating risk, according to a recent IDG survey of IT and supply chain professionals. Respondents indicated modernization will go a long way toward delivering the full supply chain visibility needed to improve insights and planning. And unified platforms powered by […]
• The technology aboard the Mars rover Perseverance: An inside look August 7, 2020
  When NASA finally launched its Mars 2020 rover last week following several delays, it packed along technology bestowed with all of the good-luck symbolism in the traditional wedding rhyme – something old, something new, something borrowed, and even something blue, if you consider the launch of the powerful Atlas V rocket that propelled the rover […]
• How top tech companies are addressing diversity and inclusion August 7, 2020
  Tech companies have traditionally responded to calls for diversity in the industry by releasing annual workplace statistics and restating commitments to improving equality. These efforts, however, have had little impact, as data continues to show that BIPOC workers, women and LGBTQ+ employees still face discrimination, underrepresentation and inequality in the tech industry.Compared to overall private […]
• BrandPost: Lean In to Differentiate with Data August 6, 2020
  I’ve found there to be wisdom in William Gibson’s line “The future is here, it’s just unevenly distributed.”The challenge is parsing “signal from noise” in order to find present-day patterns that are truly predictive of what’s to come.Four years ago—in large-scale survey data I’d collected at the time—I saw a strong association between organizational commitment […]
• BrandPost: DataBank: Helping to Deliver the Digital Revolution August 6, 2020
  For Vlad Friedman, chief technology officer of DataBank, today's "digital revolution" is not an abstract idea. It's part of daily life."Whether you're using a mobile app or taking advantage of self-driving features as you wade through the morning commute, there are numerous pieces of infrastructure that must work together reliably to enable the digital revolution," […]