(Originally posted on the Engility Corporation Blog)
There's a lot to gain from cloud computing, but success requires a thoughtful
and enterprise focused approach. Cloud computing decouples data and
information from the infrastructure on which it lies. A process that is a LOT
more involved than dragging some folders from your desktop to a shared drive.
Cloud computing as a mission transformation activity, not a technological
one.
As an organization moves from local information hosting to the cloud, one of
the most important challenges is addressing cloud computing as a mission
transformation activity, not a technological one. Cloud computing isn't a new
technology. It's a new way of consuming and provisioning information
technology services. Adopting cloud computing means paralleling your mission
processes, rethinking the economic models and abstracting your applicati... (more)
Is there more than bitcoin to blockchain?
Absolutely, because today's blockchain is opening up a pathtowards the
delivery of trusted online services.
To understand this statement, you need to see blockchain as more that it's
more famous bitcoin use case. As a fundamental digital tool, blockchain is a
shared, immutable ledger for recording the history of transactions. If used
in this fashion, it can enable transactional applications that can have
embedded trust, accountability and transparency attributes. Instead of having
a Bitcoin blockchain that is reliant on the exchange of cryptocurrencies with
anonymous users on a public network, a Business blockchain can provide a
permissioned network with known and verified identities. With this kind of
transactional visibility, all activities within that network are observable
and auditable by every network user. This end-to... (more)
With all the excellent training available on television today, we are all now
well prepared to deal with the coming Zombie Apocalypse. Our failure as a
society lies, however, in our misunderstanding of the nature of the
cybersecurity challenge. This failure threatens us all and our survival will
depend on society’s ability to deal with the evolution and maturation of
the changing enterprise cybersecurity challenge.
If you’re completely oblivious to the living dead threat, a zombie
apocalypse refers to a widespread (usually global) rise of zombies hostile to
human life. The zombies will engage in a general assault on civilization
where victims may become zombies themselves. This causes the outbreak to
become an exponentially growing crisis. The spreading phenomenon swamps
normal military and law enforcement organizations, leading to the panicked
collapse of civili... (more)
The Internet of Things (IoT) is an uninterrupted connected network of
embedded objects/ devices with identifiers without any human intervention
using standard and communication protocol. It provides encryption,
authorization and identification with different device protocols like MQTT,
STOMP or AMQP to securely move data from one network to another. IoT in
connected Government helps to deliver better citizen services and provides
transparency. It improves the employee productivity and cost savings. It
helps in delivering contextual and personalized service to citizens and
enhances the security and improves the quality of life. With secure and
accessible information government business makes more efficient, data driven,
changing the lives of citizens for the better. IoT focused Connected
Government solution helps in rapidly developing preventive and predictive
ana... (more)
How Quantum Computing with DNA Storage Will Affect Your Health
By Guest Contributor Taran Volckhausen
Contributing Editor at Vector
Moore's Law, which states that processing speeds will double every two years
as we cram more and more silicon transistors onto chips, has been faltering
since the early 2000s when the law started to run up against
fundamental limitations presented by the laws of thermodynamics. While the
chip industry, with Intel leading the charge, has found ways to sidestep the
limitations up until now, many are now saying that despite the industry's
best efforts, the stunning gains in processor speeds will not be seen again
by the simple application of Moore's Law. In fact, there is evidence to show
that we are reaching the plateau for the number of transistors that will fit
on a single chip. Intel has even suggested silicon transistors can only
keep ... (more)
NCTA CloudMASTER®: The Path to Your Future
In 2016, cloud computing started to dominate many IT market segments. As a
business, Synergy Research Group reported that industry revenue for the four
quarters ended Sept. 30 grew 25%. Operator and vendor revenue for six
segments of cloud computing reached $148 billion during that period, with
spending on private clouds accounting for over half the total but spending on
the public cloud growing much more rapidly. As more and more companies are
taking advantage of the benefits of moving to cloud services, there is a
significant need for IT professionals to gain the skills needed to
successfully use and implement a wide range of cloud services, making typical
vendor-focused training solutions less valuable.
This NCTA program was designed to provide IT professionals with a strong
foundation in cloud technologies, and overall c... (more)
Over the past few years, the use of artificial intelligence has expanded more
rapidly than many of us could have imagined. While this may invoke fear and
dread in some, these relatively new technology applications are clearly
delivering real value to our global society. This value is generally seen
in four distinct areas:
Efficiency - Delivering consistent and low-cost performance by characterizing
routine activities with well-defined rules, procedures and criteria Expertise
- augment human sensing and decision makingwith advice and implementation
support based on historical analysis Effectiveness - improve the overall
ability of workers and companies by improving coordination and communication
across interconnected activities Innovation - enhance human creativity and
ideation by identifying alternatives and optimizing recommendations.
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Chat apps characteristics make them very appealing to businesses and
marketers. Prominent ones include their size, user retention, usage rates,
and user demographics. In fact, the combined user base of the top four chat
apps is larger than that of the top four social networks. Chat apps also have
higher retention and usage rates than most mobile apps. Finally, the majority
of their users are young, an extremely important demographic for brands,
advertisers and publishers.
These chat app traits have accelerated the blending of artificial
intelligence and business service functions to create the modern chatbot.
Recent advances in this area include:
A chatbot's ability to conduct engaging human conversations which has allowed
businesses to leverage the inexpensive and wide-reaching technology to engage
with more consumers; The greater suitability of chatbots with mobil... (more)
Early Bird Savings Cloud Expo
Cloud computing is a game changer. The cloud is disrupting traditional
software and hardware business models by disrupting how IT service gets
delivered. Entrepreneurial opportunities abound as this classic disruptive
technology begins to proliferate, so it is no surprise that SYS-CON's
industry-leading International Cloud Expo is going from strength to strength.
The 5th International Cloud Expo, to be held April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob
Javits Convention Center in New York, NY, announces that its Call for Papers
is fast approaching.
Topics on which submission are welcome include all aspects of providing or
using massively scalable IT-related capabilities as a service using Internet
technologies (see suggested examples below).
Help plant your flag in the fast-expanding business opportunity that is The
Cloud: submit your speaking propos... (more)
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The computer and the network that connects them are both inextricably linked
to the success of any business. This truth is at the heart of our
contemporary connection economy.
"The computer patiently measures and reports. [T]he network creates value in
connection. The connection economy values the bridges between the nodes as
much as the nodes themselves." - Seth Godin
This train of thought explains why Uber is worth more than the independent
cars it connects. It also describes the imperative for enterprises to
redefine their network in order to operate in the modern data economy. The
instantiation of today's data economy lies in the digital supply chain that
links customer demand and organizational products. This reality surfaces the
need for organizations to transform their supply chains into demand and
product networks. This strate... (more)
End of year predictions in December are as predictable as tomorrow's sunrise,
but a recent video on 2017 Technology Trends helped me really understand how
important a digital transformation strategy is to just about any business
executive. The CSC Town Hall conversation actually identified some of the
specific tasks that today's corporate executive really need to address in the
coming year. To enhance your opportunity for 2017 business success, your
action item list should include:
Reconfiguring both corporate front and back office operations for digital
execution which is expected to reshape organizational structures, employee
compensation models and every business' partner community; Preparing for
intelligent machines advisory services to the enterprise that will
drastically increase productivity and business competition; Leveraging the
industrial internet, aka t... (more)
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