Category: Analysis

By developing a flexibility management system for the electricity grid, ERDF and Schneider Electric are demonstrating their commitment to the growth of smart grids. As part of a partnership launched over a year ago, ERDF and Schneider Electric have joined forces to develop and test innovative software and solutions for medium and low voltage grid management, for the design and monitoring of substations of the future and to facilitate the increase in renewable generation. The increasing integration of variable renewable energies in addition to load management initiated by external operators…

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In many ways, 2014 was a year of survival for Microsoft.  With a new CEO, a newish “One Microsoft” mantra, a giant acquisition of Nokia’s phones businesses, the Xbox One, Microsoft Band, and even a surprising winner in the third generation of Surface, Microsoft spent 2014 setting expectations, re-aligning, and laying the groundwork for an even bigger year ahead. There’s no doubt, 2015 will be the year of Windows 10, and all its permutations.  While Windows 10 may finally deliver the Windows 8 we wanted all along, it will even…

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Administrators of Unix/Linux environments are occasionally asked by users about files which have mysteriously disappeared. They hear something like, “One of my important files was deleted! I have no idea how it happened – who did this?” There are two possible answers that the administrator can give in this situation. Typically, for organizations without user activity recording, the answer will be, “Sorry, I have no way of knowing.” However, for organizations with acomprehensive user activity monitoring solution in place, the answer will be something like, “Joe Smith used his sudo authority to…

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The rise of the Internet of Things As billions of devices are getting connected to the internet and being managed remotely, there are a lot of use cases that are emerging to make our daily lives better. For example, now you can easily turn-off/on your porch/patio light from your smartphone automatically from your office when it is dark, or control the temperature of your home remotely through your ‘Phablet’. This simple phenomenon is part of something called “Internet of Things (IoT)’ and is one of the highest trending topics of…

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Quick: what’s the first thing you do when you wake up? Yawn? Hit the snooze button? Go to the bathroom? Brush your teeth? If you’re like 80% of 18-44-year-olds, the answer is “check my smartphone.” KYE R. LEE / MCT FILE PHOTO A new IDC Research report, conducted online with data from 7,446 Android and iPhone users ages 18 to 44 during a week in March, reveals some eye-opening mobile social media intel.Facebook sponsored the report, so our sister site AllFacebook.com has the story from that angle, if you’re interested. But here’s the…

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Over the decades, agencies’ application environments have evolved into daunting sets of complex and often interrelated combinations of commercial-off-the-shelf software and homegrown applications, along with terabytes of data. While these complex, siloed environments may initially inspire a “rip-and-replace” mentality, below are five simple tips that can guide government IT leaders on a path to cost-efficient and incremental IT modernization wins. (Source: PublicDomainPictures/Pixabay)   1. Know what you have in place by establishing an IT and enterprise architecture (EA) governance model. Modernization considerations should begin with an understanding of what’s currently…

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Momentum for cloud deployment is reaching full-throttle levels, according to a new survey report from Evolve IP. The accompanying report, titled “Cloud of Dreams: The Adoption of Cloud Services—2014,” reveals that an immense majority of tech employees and leaders feel the cloud represents the very future of IT. Most have already launched cloud services, and nearly as many intend to expand their use of cloud resources. Just as in the classic movie “Field of Dreams,” “organizations built their ballparks (clouds), found some initial players (adopters) and waited to see if…

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 The Cloud. Can you really avoid it? The cloud market is expected to grow to $121 billion dollars in 2015, a 26% compound annual growth rate from 2010’s $37 billion. Such growth is set to continue, with research showing that 81% of organizations forecast a move to the cloud for 50% of their future transactions. So what are the drivers for the growth in the cloud market?  With 60% of CIOs stating that their number one priority is cloud computing, a major driver has been the adoption of Software as…

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Savvy chief information and technology officers have always known that IT capabilities could deliver more than efficient, repeatable business practices. Many CIOs and CTOs understand that a well-designed and fully leveraged technology strategy can usher in breakthroughs and competitively disruptive capabilities. With this in mind, CIOs can focus on an important question: How can technology become an enabler for innovation? This is a particularly sensitive point in today’s changing business world. Easy-access to technology is toppling the barriers of entry to innovation and giving rise to a new class of…

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Enterprise will spend an estimated US$16.3bn on middleware software in 2015, an increase of 9.3% on a year-on-year basis, according to Ovum’s recently published *2015 Trends to Watch: Integration and Middleware report.   London, 10 December 2014 – Saurabh Sharma, Senior Analyst, Infrastructure Solutions and author of this report says, “With the ever-increasing need to “do more with less”, enterprises will be keen to adopt agile approaches to integration. Therefore, a significant share of the budget for integration projects will be spent on infrastructure modernization, including the adoption of new mobile and…

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