Category: Tech Insight
Rise of digital business enables MSPs to elevate IT conversation
Digital business transformation may be the latest buzzword phrase to come down the marketing pike, but in terms of elevating the conversation around IT, this shift in understanding the true value of IT may turn out to be the best...
Tech Time Warp: First UPC Scanned in Troy, Ohio
The UPC is so ubiquitous for today’s shopper that it’s jarring to shop at one of the few retail establishments not using it (looking at you, Hobby Lobby). But it was just 44 years ago that the Uniform Product Code...
Cloud 5: CIA loves AWS, cloud gaming grows
Welcome to The Cloud 5, our weekly feature where we scour the web searching for the five most intriguing and poignant cloud links we can find. Before we jump into this week’s links, please have a look at one of...
Microsoft bolsters Azure AI toolset with Bonsai acquisition
Just a couple of weeks of ago, Microsoft put out $7.5 billion to buy Github in a move meant to convince developers to come to Azure and sit a spell. In a corresponding move this week, it bought Bonsai, a...
DataOps is emerging as next big opportunity for MSPs
Coupled with rising interest in artificial intelligence (AI), the need to derive business value from data is driving organizations to create data operations (DataOps) functions that should create additional opportunities for managed service providers. A survey of 266 data professionals...
Tech Time Warp: DESCHALL Project Cracks 56-Bit Encryption
On June 17, 1997, a group of friends proved that it didn’t take too much effort—or computer power—to bring down 56-bit symmetric encryption, then the U.S. Department of Commerce’s standard for security. Since 1976, the government and financial institutions had...
Cloud 5: Online retailer chooses AWS, Salesforce flexes marketing muscles
Welcome to The Cloud 5, our weekly feature where we scour the web searching for the five most intriguing and poignant cloud links we can find. Before we jump into this week’s links, please have a look at one of...
Salesforce Marketing Cloud enhancements are all about improving customer experience
Salesforce Connections might not be as big as Dreamforce, but it’s meant to give the Salesforce Marketing Cloud its own special time in the sun. The conference took place in Chicago this week and in many ways felt like Adobe...
Resistance to cloud computing comes to an end
It’s been a long time coming, but a new survey suggests resistance to cloud computing has now all but fallen. A survey of 1,554 IT professionals and C-level executives conducted by EvolveIP, a provider of cloud services, finds that 92...
Tech Time Warp: Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center Connects to NSFNET
If you’re schooled in tech history, you’ve heard of ARPANET, the U.S. Department of Defense precursor to the Internet. But ARPANET wasn’t the only network to pave the way for the Information Superhighway. Also worthy of mention is NSFNET —a project...
