Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is already revolutionizing domains such as manufacturing, automobiles and healthcare. But the real value of IIoT will be realized only when Machine Learning (ML) is applied to the sensor data. This article attempts to highlight how ML augments IIoT solutions by bringing intelligent insights. Source: //www.CGPGrey.com Cloud computing has been the biggest enabler of connected devices and enterprise IoT. Cheaper storage combined with ample c…

“Data Tsunami” is a trite expression meant to convey to enterprise IT a sense or impending doom. If you as an IT executive fail to manage it, unnamed bad things will happen – like maybe you’ll drown? But the Tsunami is here and now and so too is enterprise IT. They keep their ships afloat—precisely because they’ve come up with the means to manage. One of those coping mechanisms is a technology called Object Storage. IT deals with two general categories of data: structured and unstructured. Tran…

Over the past decade, Workforce Analytics solutions have become increasingly flexible, allowing organizations to review data not just from HR or Financial systems, but from areas previously unlinked to workforce efficiency. Consider the following: ten years ago, visionary organizations were looking for linkages between manager tenure, employee engagement rates, and sales results. Several findings showed that employing longer-tenured managers often led to a more engaged sal…

Hitachi has unveiled a new Unified Compute Platform designed for customers who’re looking for hybrid cloud strategies. This new platform, powered by VMware Cloud Foundation, is a fully integrated and software-defined data center (SDDC) rack scale platform that gives customers the flexibility to deploy their product using an integrated SDDC stack. The other choice is to deploy by themselves using Hitachi’s vSAN ready node and the underlying Vmware software. So, how is this platform from Hitachi u…

SEATTLE, WA - JUNE 16: A visitor checks in at the Amazon corporate headquarters on June 16, 2017. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images) Jeff Bezos isn't wasting any time figuring out how Amazon will integrate its biggest-ever acquisition, the $13.7 billion takeover of grocer Whole Foods. Ahead of the deal's planned close on Monday, Amazon has laid out a plan to cut Whole Foods prices nationwide and integrate the grocer within its larger e-commerce platform. And once mo…

IStock Photo This partnership is more than just a challenge to Amazon and its Alexa voice-ordering system. It signals an acceleration in the shift from store-based retail supply chains to a hyper-personalized, smart consumer supply chain. The dynamics of this new supply chain will be brutal for consumer brands accustomed to shelf-centric demand. Three Predictions 1. Voice ordering explodes — Though voice ordering is already familiar enough to be the subject of funny tele…

After expanding its global workforce by over 60 percent in just a few years, SunPower Corporation needed a talent management system to match its rapid growth. Headquartered in California, this solar energy innovator designs, manufactures and delivers high-efficiency solar electric systems, cells and panels to consumer, business and industrial customers worldwide. The company selected the SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite and SAP Jam Collaboration to consolidate its workforce on one platform as part o…

In the US, 10,000 people turn 65 each day The world’s population is aging, and the United Nations’ World Population Aging report paints a striking picture of the future. It states, “Population aging is unprecedented, without parallel in human history—and the twenty-first century will witness even more rapid aging than did the century just past,”[1](see Figure 1). In the United States, for example, every day since 2011, 10,000 people turn 65 years old, and this trend will continue until 2029.[…

Justin Warren Justin Warren (left) and Blue Cow (right) visit Gigamon in Santa Clara, 28 July 2017 Gigamon are best known for building a range of network monitoring products designed to work with physical network devices. That presents a challenge when the world starts to use networking devices that are less and less physical and more just fancy software running in the nebulously defined 'cloud'. In the traditional, physical networking world, network traffic can …

Goldman Sachs has pledged $45 million to a relatively unknown cloud company called Skytap that’s based in Seattle. With this round, the total funding for Skytap has touched $100 million and it is planning to have its IPO within the next 18 to 24 months, if everything goes according to the management’s plan. So, what is Skytap and what does it do? Well, Skytap started off as a project at the University of Washington a few years ago. Over the last few years, it has garnered a niche area of the clo…