Samuel Greengard

Today, all systems lead to big data. But here’s a thought: “Just because data is available and can be fairly easily acquired and disseminated by the business and IT, does not mean that it should be,” said Scott H. Schlesinger, principal in the IT Advisory Service at consulting firm E&Y. In fact, hoarding the entire […]

How M2M Powers the Internet of Things How M2M Powers the Internet of Things On the Radar 76% of respondents have heard of M2M, up from 61% in 2014. More than one-quarter (27%) of all businesses worldwide report using M2M technology. M2M Makes a Mark 90% reported that M2M is relevant to their organization today, […]

As businesses wade further into the digital age, the need to manage campaigns, content and media has grown exponentially. What’s more, the task is becoming increasingly complex and challenging. Electronics for Imaging (EFI) is at the center of this revolution. The Fremont, Calif., firm, which was established in 1989, provides digital imaging and print management […]

As the digital age takes hold, it’s clear that a key aspect of security is managing identities. If the breaches at Sony and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management demonstrate anything, it’s that an organization is only as strong as its weakest link. A new study conducted by Centrify Corporation offers some perspective on where […]

Today’s business and IT environment serves up a mind-boggling array of challenges. But, increasingly, at the center of everything lies data governance. According to a Deloitte survey conducted in 2014, only one-half of respondents had a high degree of confidence in the metrics they use track data, and 18 percent weren’t confident that their IT […]

Staying with old technologies too long. Fear of failure can easily translate into the mindset: if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it. But in today’s highly disruptive business environment, standing still is moving backwards. Far too many organizations remain shackled by legacy IT systems, often behemoth ERP and SCM systems that make it difficult to […]

In just over a decade, drones have flown into our lives in ways we once could have only imagined. In February 2002, the CIA deployed the first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for a targeted killing in Afghanistan. Today, in addition to military use, drones are flying above crops to snap photos for farmers, insurance companies […]

Only a few years ago, CIOs and other business and IT leaders openly questioned the viability of clouds. There’s been a remarkable shift in attitude. Industry studies indicate that enterprise cloud adoption now hovers above the 90 percent range, and clouds are filtering into a broader array of functions and tasks. Yet the art and […]

One of the interesting transition points to digital business is the emergence of digital signage. This may take the form of digital billboards alongside highways or digital signs or menu boards in hotels and restaurants. Of course, some eateries have even gone so far as to discard menus altogether and use iPads for ordering food […]

Over the last few years, software defined networking (SDN) has undergone explosive growth. IT consulting and market research firm IDC reports that adoption is growing at an 89 percent annual rate and SDN is on track to become an $8 billion market by 2018. One organization that views all of this as more than academic […]

One of the inescapable realities of today’s technology is that what seems like science fiction one month or year is suddenly mainstream IT a few years later. Travel on the Wayback Machine to 2005 and it’s clear that smartphones were mostly dumbphones, clouds were still relegated to the sky and big data was anything more […]

No matter how many news stories, warnings, alerts and highly publicized breaches we hear about, organizations find themselves living and reliving a story line straight out of the film Groundhog Day. Last week’s announcement that criminals stole data involving 4 million current and former federal employees followed the previous week’s news that the IRS had […]