Tech Insights

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...

3 Amazing Things That Make a Software Engineer Great

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...