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 On January 21, 2015, Microsoft unveiled the next major beta of Windows 10, the Consumer Preview, with an event at the company's home in Redmond, Washington. As it is a major release for Microsoft we expected to see several new features toward Microsoft's vision on ‘Mobile First' & ‘Clo...Jan. 25, 2015 11:00 PM EST Reads: 1,231 |
 Enterprises are adopting mobile technologies at an unprecedented rate. As Business News Daily recently reported, 1.3 billion workers will go mobile by 2015, and with that massive number, the need for enterprise mobile apps can only skyrocket.
With that increase, many mobile app develo...Jan. 25, 2015 03:00 PM EST Reads: 1,042 |
 As we enter 2015, it is time to dust off the crystal ball once again for our annual predictions forecast. The parade of new technology innovations and breakthroughs is unfolding across many fronts. In some cases the convergence of technologies themselves provides the breakthrough. The ...Jan. 25, 2015 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,475 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Cisco, the worldwide leader in IT that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate, has been named “Gold Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York C...Jan. 22, 2015 04:00 PM EST Reads: 3,539 |
 @ThingsExpo has been named the Top 5 Most Influential M2M Brand by Onalytica in the ‘Machine to Machine: Top 100 Influencers and Brands.' Onalytica analyzed the online debate on M2M by looking at over 85,000 tweets to provide the most influential individuals and brands that drive the d...Jan. 19, 2015 07:00 PM EST Reads: 3,095 |
 How much risk do you have of someone stealing disks from your datacenter? Take the average life span of a hard drive. The enterprise class hard drive is designed to last a minimum of 5 years. During that 5 years a SAN or NAS filled with hard disks is expected to have at least 99.999 pe...Jan. 16, 2015 11:45 PM EST Reads: 1,589 |
 The end of the year typically brings about a frenzy of news, reviews and forecasts about the next year, and rightfully so one of the top industry predictions for 2015 relate to the Cloud.
According to IDC, “the global cloud market, including private, public and hybrid clouds, will hit...Jan. 16, 2015 03:00 PM EST Reads: 1,350 |
 The worlds of cloud, mobile, social and cyber will continue expanding, permuting and recombining. Their individual effect on society and commerce will become moot as these technological capabilities merge to deliver products and services straight out of Star Trek!
Traditional system i...Jan. 12, 2015 02:30 PM EST Reads: 1,022 |
 According to several recent studies, consumers are still very much on the fence about the Internet of Things. Before they’ll give IoT a thumbs up, these studies say, companies will need to earn their trust and offer more steak and less sizzle in their IoT offerings.
While visiting my ...Jan. 12, 2015 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,669 |
 Grow your business with enterprise wearable apps using SAP Platforms and Google Glass. SAP and Google just launched the SAP and Google Glass Challenge, an opportunity for you to innovate and develop the best Enterprise Wearable App using SAP Platforms and Google Glass and gain valuable...Jan. 11, 2015 11:45 PM EST Reads: 3,170 |
 To date, wearables have been such a disappointment in the market. The market is rife with ugly and semi-functional wearable devices that rarely manage more than a 3-star rating on Amazon. Will 2015 be any different? Thirty days into my Pebble experience, I'm somewhat hooked - and eag...Jan. 8, 2015 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,647 |
 Long story short, remote wipes aren’t a perfect solution. The original intent had some validity, but it also raises too many concerns. Wiping is really only an effective solution in an ideal world. Unfortunately, thieves don’t play by the rules and find ways around our solutions. For t...Nov. 24, 2014 12:15 PM EST Reads: 1,889 |
 Stu Hammer is the leader of the HP Enterprise Services Applications Practice in U.S. Public Sector, where he has specialized in application modernization, transformation strategy and transformation to cloud services. He has been in the IT business for more than 29 years with a strategi...Jan. 7, 2015 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,348 |
 Cloud Computing has helped us understand both the opportunity, and the need, to decouple physical IT infrastructure from the requirements of business. In theory cloud computing greatly enhances an organization’s ability to not only decommission inefficient data center resources, but e...Jan. 6, 2015 07:45 PM EST Reads: 1,004 |
 Sensor-enabled things are becoming more commonplace, precursors to a larger and more complex framework that most consider the ultimate promise of the IoT: things connecting, interacting, sharing, storing, and over time perhaps learning and predicting based on habits, behaviors, locatio...Jan. 5, 2015 11:45 PM EST Reads: 1,854 |
 The explosion of connected devices / sensors is creating an ever-expanding set of new and valuable data. In parallel the emerging capability of Big Data technologies to store, access, analyze, and react to this data is producing changes in business models under the umbrella of the Inte...Jan. 5, 2015 10:30 PM EST Reads: 1,900 |
 The active number of devices connected to the Internet of Things was a considerable 2.5 billion in 2014 – and some analysts project this number will grow three times over, to 9 billion, in only four years. Gartner estimates we’ll create an even higher number of connected devices: 26 bi...Jan. 5, 2015 09:45 PM EST Reads: 1,376 |
 Certain workers will benefit the most from a BYOD policy. Here's a look at the top five. Technology changes from one day to the next. Because of this, businesses have a difficult time keeping up with the latest devices. A great way to overcome this issue is to implement a Bring Your Ow...Jan. 5, 2015 08:00 PM EST Reads: 1,496 |
 2014 was the year I finally switched to an iPhone all thanks to the broken screen on my much loved Lumia 720. I got an iPhone 5s in June and my iOS app collection from my iPod Touch (2nd gen), iPad 2 & iPad mini made the switch pretty much seamless. I’m making this post inspired by a s...Jan. 3, 2015 12:45 PM EST Reads: 1,252 |
 How agile is your IT organization? Have you kept pace with the rapid evolution of cloud computing services? Have you applied that cloud investment to connect with your key stakeholders in the marketplace? Are you ready to seize the opportunities from the emerging mobile cloud trend?
I...Dec. 31, 2014 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,590 |
 Now is the age of information analytics. We have (very arguably) reached a point where the insight arising from data analytics can be applied to almost every aspect of a company, in every business vertical.
But what shape should that analytics be? Increasingly we talk about embedded a...Dec. 29, 2014 11:00 PM EST Reads: 2,990 |
 "Matrix is an ambitious open standard and implementation that's set up to break down the fragmentation problems that exist in IP messaging and VoIP communication," explained John Woolf, Technical Evangelist at Matrix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at ...Dec. 29, 2014 07:00 PM EST Reads: 2,682 |
 As 2014 draws to an end we lay out our top 5 predictions for the Sync, Share and Collaboration Market for 2015. The SME EFSS white paper gave a good view of the Enterprise File Share and Sync Market for 2014 and below we lay out our top 5 predictions for the Sync, Share and Collaborati...Dec. 29, 2014 07:00 PM EST Reads: 1,392 |
| WebRTC defines no default signaling protocol, causing fragmentation between WebRTC silos. SIP and XMPP provide possibilities, but come with considerable complexity and are not designed for use in a web environment.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Matthew Hodgson, technical co-founder o... Dec. 29, 2014 12:30 PM EST Reads: 2,493 |
 About 15 years ago I fainted. It was the only time in my life that I fainted.
The reasons were probably, blood donation a day before, Work from 7:00 until 19:00 and participation in the the thirty-third day of the Omer period ceremonies of my children (I stood for a long time beside...Dec. 29, 2014 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,795 |
 Much of what human beings experience as commonplace today - social networking, on-line gaming, mobile and wearable computing -- was impossible a decade ago. One thing is certain: we're going to see even more impressive advances in the next few years. However, this will be the result of...Dec. 29, 2014 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,961 |
 Wearable Computing is a new Buz and/or new Technology. The vision of human beings with permanent Computing device is beyond wearing it. The vision is of a an electronic chip implanted in our body i.e. Computing device inside every one or a Digital Human Being. Each Digital Human Being ...Dec. 22, 2014 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,294 |
 In terms of requirements, IoT systems require the ability: to gather, process and store all the data from a wide range of different of sensors; to produce alerts on certain conditions being detected in the incoming data; to analyze or view historical data with incoming sensor data.Dec. 16, 2014 07:45 PM EST Reads: 1,607 |
 The follow up article to Welcome to the Age of the Consumer: No Opinion Matters More
Now we go into how to take advantage of those essential first few days or even minutes that you have your potential customer’s attention in order to follow through on heightened expectations of ste...Dec. 15, 2014 06:15 AM EST Reads: 1,846 |
 Your customers can process information faster every day, which makes them inherently more demanding. In fact, as B2B tech guru Ken Rutsgy says, probably, “Your customers know more about your solution than your sales guys.”
Dec. 5, 2014 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,884 |
 The goal of any DevOps solution is to optimize multiple processes in an organization. And success does not necessarily require that in executing the strategy everything needs to be automated to produce an effective plan. Yet, it is important that processes are put in place to handle a ...Dec. 6, 2014 02:00 PM EST Reads: 14,414 |
 Eighty-nine percent of knowledge workers retain access to the sensitive corporate applications and files of former employers.
Earlier this year, a member of the team at Site-Eye, one of the top time-lapse film companies in the UK, noticed a disturbing problem with one of its client'...Dec. 6, 2014 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,968 |
 Juliet’s lament is often mistakenly thought of as ‘where are you Romeo?’ when it actually means, ‘Why must you be a Montague?’ It is Romeo’s family and their struggle against the Capulets that keeps these two star-crossed lovers apart.
Beacons, like Romeo, also have a bit of a name – ...Dec. 6, 2014 01:45 PM EST Reads: 2,447 |
 In 2015 I am going to be investing a lot of time studying how consumer behaviors are changing as a result of the use of smartphones and mobile apps. I will also be studying what leading companies are doing to address those changing behaviors. Dec. 5, 2014 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,788 |
 The growing consumerism of our society is always a hot topic this time of year. Discussions about whether or not retailers should open on Thanksgiving to the monitoring of 'Christmas Creep' by various blogs and websites can be seen everywhere.
However what gets lost in the shuffle...Dec. 5, 2014 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,626 |
 Businesses, and let's be honest most of us, are interested in amplifying our influence. I remember reading adventure books as a child about pioneers and woodsman that craved isolation, and that would move whenever neighbors settled close enough to hear, but that's not an effective str...Dec. 5, 2014 06:11 AM EST Reads: 1,018 |
 In the last blog, we explored real world examples of smart cities and highlighted one such example in the São Paulo state of Brazil. What makes this an exciting model for other cities to evaluate and perhaps emulate is that it touches many city services that we can all relate to. It al...Dec. 4, 2014 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,930 |
 Now that most companies seek to make the most of their data in order to remain competitive, they need to hire the right analytical personnel. Unfortunately that is becoming difficult to achieve. McKinsey recently released a report on the growing talent shortage. The study explains th...Dec. 1, 2014 01:15 PM EST Reads: 1,652 |
 November is here. The leaves are falling, the sun is setting at a ridiculously early hour and this week a time honored American tradition will take place. And no, silly, I'm not talking about Thanksgiving. I'm talking about Black Friday.
Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving...Dec. 1, 2014 04:00 AM EST Reads: 1,713 |
 In 2007, there were virtually no mobile apps. Last year alone, over 100 billion apps were downloaded, generating $26 billion in sales. App stores operated by Apple and Google now offer more than a million apps each and people every day depend on apps like Facebook, Google Maps and Uber...Nov. 30, 2014 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,426 |
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