Microsoft plans to tell its customers more about the energy use of the data centers it uses to host Azure public cloud services. With that information, customers can figure out where to deploy their applications in the most efficient possible way. The practice dovetails with the plan Microsoft unveiled last year to remove more carbon than it […]
Technology has grown so much faster than anyone could have probably predicted. At the beginning of the millennium, only 50% of Americans had broadband access. Today, this service is now available in over 90% of households. Industries are catching up, too. Gartner forecasts that spending for public cloud services would reach over $309 billion this year, an almost 20% […]
In March 2020, Formula 1 teams were faced with a heavy decision to stop or postpone their races as in-person sporting events were being cancelled amidst a growing pandemic. Determined to keep the competition alive, F1 teams joined the Esports Grand Prix series and invited over 70,000 unique viewers from around the world to tune in remotely. Just one year […]
A year ago last month, digital shopping began to surge as stay-at-home orders related to the Covid-19 pandemic rolled out across the U.S. Now, as widespread vaccinations raise hopes of a more normal future, I can already see some trends taking shape on how digital shopping will continue to evolve throughout 2021 and what this […]
Hewlett-Packard’s Recover and Renew offerings give companies cash back on old PCs while helping those companies meet their sustainability goals. Companies of all types increasingly are concerned about being good corporate citizens, and that includes taking steps to be “green.” These steps include IT being responsible about how it parts with old user devices, an […]
COVID-19 spurs 57% of Indian enterprises to increase RPA spend. Nearly half of all businesses in India will implement robotic process automation (RPA) by 2024, according to a new IDC study commissioned by Automation Anywhere. Triggered by COVID-19, the study further anticipates that RPA adoption rates will increase by 57% in just the next year. The IDC study, which surveyed technology […]
Despite national conversations about gender diversity in tech, women are still underrepresented, underpaid, and often discriminated against in the tech industry, numbers show. Diversity is critical in tech, as it enables companies to create better and safer products that take everyone into consideration, not just one section of society. Moreover, a 2020 report from McKinsey found that […]
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) is the natural evolution of converged infrastructure, the practice of controlling and changing computer, network, and storage functions in the same server or architecture. Hyperconvergence supercharges this process by using only software to build and deploy the elements of your information and communication technology (ICT) architecture virtually across a network, usually through […]
When COVID-19 closed offices worldwide, it created a new urgency for organisations of all kinds and sizes — and particularly the CIOs, CISOs and IT leaders within them — to secure their remote work environments. As the need for remote work grew, so too did the threat landscape. For companies not born in the digital age, […]
Google is adding its password checkup feature to Android, making the mobile OS the latest company offering to give users an easy way to check if the passcodes they’re using have been compromised. Password Checkup works by checking credentials entered into apps against a list of billions of credentials compromised in the innumerable website breaches […]
