IoT Investments The Internet of Things (IoT) took a major step closer to becoming the dominant reality of our times today with the news that software giant Cisco would be [...]

Digital Marketing Mix In the past, trends in the exceptionally fast-paced digital marketing mix arena have been quickly adopted or abandoned, keeping marketers and consumers on their toes. 2016 promises [...]

The Social Data Cloud One of the most amazing attributes of the cloud and its related technologies is its sheer openness. New companies and ventures spring up daily, fueled, in [...]

Governmental Decryption Recent U.S. bills proposed in California and New York aim to implement a controversial governmental backdoor into mobile devices. The issue concerns forcing manufacturers to provide a mechanism [...]

Aerogel For many years now, clothing manufacturers have known about the remarkable properties of aerogel, a material consisting of little more than a foam substance of air, silica and carbon [...]

Bigcommerce According to third-party research firm Ipsos, Bigcommerce boasted store growth twice as fast as the e-commerce industry average in 2015, and in-house data from “the best e-commerce platform for [...]

The Cloud Showdown For small and medium businesses (SMB) seeking to grow in 2016, options for increasing efficiency abound. The Cloud offers many benefits for businesses, including slashing IT expenses, [...]

Botnets and DDoS Attacks There’s just so much that seems as though it could go wrong with closed-circuit television cameras, a.k.a. video surveillance. With an ever-increasing number of digital eyes [...]

Failure to Invest In Online Backup Success in business is a combination of many things – the right staff, the right budgeting plan, the right company culture – but also [...]

Useful Business Startup Tools Cloud tools and the cloud market are evolving from a focus on technology to solution-specific instruments with practical objectives. Ten years ago, businesses were run almost entirely [...]

Hybridization When discussing migration to the cloud, the use of hybrid cloud and all other cloud-related issues, people generally place the focus on the technology itself. What sometimes gets overlooked [...]

Does Slack Live Up to the Hype? Slack’s the definition of a business success story. In just a couple years, it’s evolved from a gaming company’s internal communication tool to [...]

The Industrial Internet Arises Both Big Data and the Internet of Things arm us with a near infinite source of data thanks to Internet-connected sensors and data analysis tools, and [...]

Securing A Mid-Sized Enterprise There is no longer any subjectivity in this statement: security is at the top of list for all CIOs. Every meeting I’ve attended over the last [...]

Government Cyber Security Preparedness Last year’s massive data breach of Office of Personnel Management, as well as other recent cyber security incidents affecting federal agencies, underscored the urgency of bringing [...]