Sensors and other connected items are secondary to support network, claims HPE executive While many people focus on sensors and gadgets when talking about the Internet of Things (IoT), it is the infrastructure behind the scenes that will make or break the technology, it has been claimed. Speaking at a press conference at HPE Discover in London, Robert Youngjohns, EVP and GM of software at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), said: “When people think about the Internet of Things, they often immediately go to a discussion of sensors, smart meters, Nest…

By 2016, it’s estimated that 36 percent of all data will be stored on the cloud, with the total spent on cloud computing amounting to $183 billion by the end of this year. Hundreds of businesses make the transition to software-as-a-service (SaaS) cloud storage every day, and after looking at these numbers, it’s not difficult to see why: • 94 percent of managers say digital security was improved after transitioning to the cloud • 80 percent of businesses on the cloud say it’s reduced IT costs • 52 percent of…

I recently had the pleasure of appearing on CXOTalk with Michael Krigsman to discuss PwC’s Digital IQ survey. Michael asked me about a concept catching fire in the IT community called “bimodal” or “two-speed” IT. Bimodal IT is the idea of creating two faces of the IT department: operational and aspirational. One side focuses on keeping the lights on. The other side sets the world on fire by producing products and services and powering the business with apps and analytics. As with any new approach du jour to solving IT’s…

Who here remembers taking computer programming in school? Whether you learned programming by punching holes in a never ending series of cards, or by writing simple DOS or other computer language commands, the fact remained that computers needed an incredibly precise set of instructions to accomplish a task. The more complicated the task, the more complicated your instructions had to be. Machine learning is inherently different. Rather than telling a computer exactly how to solve a problem, the programmer instead tells it how to go about learning to solve the…

The Investigatory Powers Bill was intended to be introduced by the end of 2016, but the Government is now asking for it to be pushed through ‘as soon as possible’ The Government is already using the deadly attacks in Paris to push forward its surveillance legislation. Following the attacks, various senior members of the Conservative including David Cameron and Boris Johnson have called for the surveillance legislation to be pushed through as soon as possible. The new bill was introduced only two weeks ago and originally had a deadline of…

Hard to believe that men reached the moon on a tiny fraction of the data available in the laptops we use today. We and our devices, our cities, even our clothes are leaving digital footprints all over the universe of big data.  Businesses really need to transform how we grapple with all this information.  It is still the case that knowledge is power, but the ability to use that knowledge is what will set successful companies apart. Recent research found that 64% of companies already believe big data is changing…