IoT security fundamentals: what risk, why care and who’s driving?
The glow surrounding IoT is beginning to fade as organizations come to face one of the key challenges in its implementation – the need...
Technology – a ‘Giving Tree’?
With a masters in economics from the University of Zurich, James Heim worked with a Swiss foundation to bring technology companies to...
Competition or cyber security co-opetition
Competitors in many industries quietly cooperate when it makes sense, even if it's only by establishing and adhering to standards. Just think what the...
Happy International Women’s Day!
On International Women’s Day it’s important to draw attention to the ongoing need to protect and promote women’s equality. This need is global, but...
451 Research – Rise of the machines, Part 2: AI and the labor market
A HAL 9000 run amok entered the public consciousness back in 1968, but as the 451 Research Group notes in its two part research...
Community cloud – Laval’s experiment in social tech
Background
Since founding in 1663, Université Laval has worked to build a global reputation for high quality, comprehensive educational programming, research excellence and outreach to...
Tackling the ‘data dump’ challenge
Big Data initiatives are multiplying at an unprecedented rate. The near-ubiquitous discussion of IoT and the accelerating adoption of AI and machine learning are...
Cognitive collaboration
IBM is tackling the holy grail of tech deployment - the need to align IT with business needs - on two fronts. On one...
Unhelpful help
In the beginning was the manual. There had to be – there was no online help, or even much assistance embedded in software. You...
Car clouds and data networks – the Ethernet game is on
Celebrated as a “data centre on wheels,” the modern car is more software than ‘hardware’, and kicks off an enormous amount of data that...
CIA Plus Meetup tackles IoT privacy and security
The most recent CIA Plus Meetup in Toronto touched on subjects that are becoming of prime concern to the security community. Entitled Who’s Big...
Striking a Spark
Teleconferencing has been both a boon and a bane for businesses for many years. There are not many among us who haven't struggled with...
Financing Fred Hutch – a study in data transformation
Background:
Based in Seattle, Washington, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Fred Hutch) is a world leader in the detection, prevention and treatment of...
MS cloud + AI = digital transformation
Microsoft is one of several major IT players racing to build the AI (Artificial Intelligence) startup community. In December 2016, the company announced a...
Three keys to managed services innovation
Sitting midpoint between public cloud and reliance on on-premise IT resources, managed services are an increasingly attractive alternative for the delivery of IT services....
