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The Evolution of MicroEncryption® Type Technology
By Steven R. Russo

The New Reality
Secure and reliable encryption schemes are essential to protect sensitive information held by...

The Future of Increasing Manufacturing Performance
By James Wood, Director, Aptean MES

In a world where margins continue to shrink and capacities have to be used as wisely as possible, manufacturing execution systems (MES) have grown into an essential tool for manufacturers. Here...

The Disturbing Cyber Threat Targeting Medical Devices
By Brian W. Horton, CEO, IT Strategy, Inc

Hackers have found another way to extort the medical community and their patients. There's a disturbing trend of cyber-thieves targeting medical devices in doctors' offices and hospitals. The very...

The distributed Data Center
By Travis L Brown, Director of Technology, Hutto ISD

The data center as we know it, in its massive warehouse style space is evolving. Many corporations and educational facilities are finding that the precious space demands they use to house their...

Business and IT transformation based on new Cloud technologies
By Vladimir Kuptsov, Sr. Director Infrastructure, HMS Host

Based on my 15 years’ experience in Global IT, I would like to combine major common business transformation issues and successes in a 21st Century. First of all, if business think to stay on a...

The CIO: Thinking like a CEO
By Tim Crawford, CIO Strategic Advisor, AVOA

Over the past 30 years, now is the best time to be a CIO. The role of the CIO is in transition. At the same time, the CIO is increasingly more critical to businesses. The CIO role is moving from a...

The Business Value of Security
By Mark Schwartz, Board Member, DigitalTown

What is the business value of security? If a product owner is making decisions about how to prioritize user stories, features, or work items, how does he or she decide how to prioritize work items related...

The Age of Digital Transformation
By Meg Whitman, CEO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Although we’ve been anticipating it for years, I think we can all agree that the digital revolution is now transforming every aspect of our lives—at home and in business...

Business Benefits of Getting Six Sigma Certified
By Megan R. Nichols, Freelance Technical Writer

Six Sigma certifications have been around for more than 30 years, first being put into practice by Motorola in 1986.

The 5 biggest security concerns after Wannacry
By Mukul Chopra, Director, Digital Transformation Center, COMPAREX

While we are still reeling from the aftermath of the “Wannacry“ ransomware exploit and the global impact of the cyber threat and the extreme vulnerability of key industries, it might not be too early to...

Technology Trends for People—Accenture Tech Vision 2017
By Paul Daugherty, Chief Technology & Innovation Officer at Accenture

Within the last year, we’ve experienced no small degree of change globally, and if there is perhaps one thing most people can agree upon, it is that we have much more change ahead of us. I’ve been...

Technology Trends – A Strange New World
By Art Huenecke, Information Technology, Academy of General Dentistry

With the continued convergence of all kinds of technological change and the human it is time to take a brief look and see where things are headed. Everything will be connected at some point soon. It will...

Technology is the easy part… Unfortunately
By Doug Reynolds, CIO, SMB Executive

Who of us hasn't fallen for the promise of a "bright, shiny object" that didn't meet expectations? Remember that product we bought, or the solution we built, that was going to solve a big problem...

Technology is a Checkbox – In the cloud
By Sam Schoelen, CITO/CSO, Continental Resources

Ever since I have taken the plunge into the world of cloud technologies one theme has been obvious; all the solutions and decisions that were so difficult to maneuver through have now become as easy...

Technology in Education
By Chandra Prakash Verma, Academic Head, Ashienta Technologies Pvt Ltd.

“Books will soon be obsolete in the public schools…our school system will be completely changed inside of ten years.”...

Self-Driving and Autonomous Cars - Why We Should Be Concerned
By Avani Desai, EVP, Schellman & Company and Adam Losey, Partner, Losey PLLC

You’ll probably have heard about a recent high profile crash during the testing of the Tesla Model S autonomous car. During the crash, which occurred in July 2016, the car allegedly was unable to...

By Armando Pantoja, Senior Software Engineer Team Lead, AAA Auto Club South

Software engineers are a pivotal part of any business enterprise. Without these individuals, it would make it difficult to try and keep your website code up-to-date or your operations running smoothly...

Pro-Active Monitoring of Healthcare Cold Storage Units
By Dan Cusick, VP, Customer Development Emante Wirless,Inc.

Monitoring the storage temperature of critical assets and supplies in a healthcare or pharmaceutical environment is necessary to meet various compliance requirements. But beyond compliance...

Please, No More BYOD
By Steve King, COO & CTO, Netswitch Technology Management

Companies are quickly discovering, and rushing to comply with the fact that employees today want to use a wide range of different mobile devices/apps to access various enterprise assets, interact with...

How to Keep Manufacturing in America
By Bill Lambert, Director of Operations, Formaspace Technical Furniture

The History of American Manufacturing Case and point, take for example RFC2827, which is also referred today as BCP38 (Business Current Practice 38):...

How financial services companies can efficiently leverage new technology
By Scott Morrison, Chief Product Officer, Ascensus

Just as technology has revolutionized the way we communicate, make purchases, and obtain information, it is also transforming the way individuals save, spend, invest, and interact with financial...

Where-cloud-PLM(Tech-V3-2018)
By Oleg Shilovitsky, CEO / co-founder, OpenBOM(TM)

Money is coming to cloud PLM vendors. Earlier this week, my attention was caught by Propel PLM announcement about raising $18M in series B...

Why-Chief-Clinical(Tech-v3-2018)
By Mauri Lawler, Chief Clinical Officer, EIR Healthcare.

Smart technology has become indispensable in many infrastructures. Our homes and cities - even our roads and sidewalks - along with many public facilities are “connected” and designed...

If-big-data(Tech-V3-2018)
By Mike Lee, Global Leader, Wealth & Asset Management

Data is a subject that is top of mind for most organizations right now. It not only comes up in most of my client meetings, but also in conversations...

3-Musts-To-Engage(Tech-v3-2018)
By Tim Perry, Chief Information Officer (CIO), Healthcare Too.

Healthcare is changing. Not only for physicians and hospitals but also for yoga studios, financial advisers, massage therapists, food...

Big-Bang-Disruption(Tech-v3-2018)
By Lan Liu, PM Intern,TuSimple

A common scenario in a Chinese pediatrics building at midnight looks like this — baby cries, distraught parents, exhausted doctors with bare sleep, and a long...

IOT-is-Set-to-Disrupt(Tech-V3-2018)
By Siddhartha Mishra, CEO-SD Global Technology.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is already revolutionizing healthcare. In simple terms, the IoT for healthcare comprises devices and applications that are able to connect to healthcare IT systems through computer networks.

Record-Your-Health(Tech-v2-2018)
By Lilly Desai, Consulting Practice Director, Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd.

Was watching an episode of a popular medical series where a senior citizen meets with an accident on his tour and gets admitted to the local...

Virtual-Augmented-and-Mixed-Realities-for-Learning
By Alexander Salas, Instructional System Designer, Dell Technologies

Whether you are a techie person or not, there’s a big chance that you may have heard the terms Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and...

EDGE-COMPUTING(Tech-v1-2018)
By Joe Higgins, Senior Systems Administrator, The Citco Group of Companies

Nearly every new technology is disruptive to the extent that it’s expected to replace older technologies. Sometimes, as with the cloud, old technology is simply rebranded to make it more...

On-the-evolution(Tech-v1-2018)
By Herman Scheepers,Senior Technologist and Data Scientist,IS3

In this article I would like to explore new opportunities for value, innovation, and disruption driven by information and AI in the domain...

3-emerging-tech(tech-v1-2018)
By Dominic Venturo, Executive Vice President, Chief Innovation Officer, U.S. Bank

I’ve been following new technologies in the banking industry for many years, watching them disrupt long-established processes.

Are-you-ready(Tech-v1-2018)
By Pierre Nanterme,Chairman and CEO, Accenture

There are reasons to be optimistic as we begin 2018. Self-sustaining growth in the global economy and the recovery of international trade have...

Cloud-An(Tech-v1-2018)
By Emiliano Del Fiume, Client Executive, Unisys

Organisations are concerned about risks of 'vendor lock-in'. Fears are rooted in mainframe era when capex on a specific technology usually drove...

How-the-tech(Tech-v1-2018)
By Mike Gregoire,CEO at CA Technologies

As the CEO of a $4 billion technology company and chairman-elect of the World Economic Forum’s IT Governors Steering Committee, I remain vigilantly...

Reality(Tech-v1-2018)
By Peggie Koon, CEO & Founder, Leading Change, LLC

n case you haven’t noticed, “Reality” is BIG business. There are “Reality” shows about everything and everyone on every type of media – from FB,...

The-Need-for(Tech-v1-2018)
By Brandon Sapsara, Entrepreneur, Systems-Thinker and Blockchain Enthusias

Conviviality is defined by renown Austrian priest Ivan Illich as individual freedom realized through greater autonomy and personal interdependence....

Answering-5-frequently(Industryleaders-2018)
By Chloé Meredith, PhD, People Analytics Consultant, iNostix

People Analytics Consultant at iNostix
In the 2017 Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends*, it was stated that the....

It's-About-Health(Indus-Leaders-2018)
By Tim Perry, Co-founder & CIO, Healthcare Too

I like technology and the value technology services can deliver. I have a made a career of developing, implementing, overseeing, and improving...

Our-2018-strategy(Indus-leaders-2018)
By Lowell McAdam, CEO, Verizon

In a recent conference call with investors, I reviewed Verizon’s 2017 financial and operational results, the implications of tax reform to Verizon...

Status-Quo-Vs(Indus-Leaders-2018)
By Mark V. Hurd, CEO, Oracle

The technology industry is at a critical inflection point, as the cloud and other new technologies represent the biggest and most significant changes...

Unsecured-At-Any(Indus-Leaders-2018)
By Michael Xie, Founder, President and CTO, Fortinet

I have never seen anyone pull into a parking space, get out of their car and leave their laptop, wallet, iPhone, social security card, list of most important...