• BrandPost: How GPUs Improve the Performance and Security of VDI Applications – while Lowering Costs

    Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) technology is being used for new types of applications in fields ranging from education and geographic information systems (GIS) to manufacturing, oil and gas, and media and entertainment. But bringing a native experience for these applications to a VDI environment requires more graphic processing power than traditional servers with only CPUs can handle. The solution is to use graphics processor units (GPUs), which are now available to drive heavy graph
  • BrandPost: How to Get More Bang from Your Big Data Clusters

    When it comes to the importance of data to an enterprise, the metaphors abound.  Data is the lifeblood of an organization. Data is the new gold. Data is the new oil. Data is the fuel for your analytics engine.All of these characterizations underscore the fact that the competitiveness of an organization now depends on its ability to take advantage of the data it captures from business systems, the Internet of Things, social media and other channels. From optimizing manufacturing processes t
  • BrandPost: A How to Get More Bang from Your Big Data Clusters

    When it comes to the importance of data to an enterprise, the metaphors abound.  Data is the lifeblood of an organization. Data is the new gold. Data is the new oil. Data is the fuel for your analytics engine.All of these characterizations underscore the fact that the competitiveness of an organization now depends on its ability to take advantage of the data it captures from business systems, the Internet of Things, social media and other channels. From optimizing manufacturing processes t
  • IDG Contributor Network: Holograms make a comeback for enterprise marketing

    Decades ago, marketers couldn’t fathom the ability to project an artificial projection of Bill Gates at a conference to interact with attendees in real-time. Fast forward to 2018, and millennials and Gen Z alike will be able to harness to power of holograms and augmented reality to make technology interaction more natural and accessible for all ages. Although holograms have been deployed for a few years, they have generally exclusively been used in the music space.Advanced technology is a
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  • IDG Contributor Network: How to drive alignment with your service provider in implementing digital technologies

    Companies are on the horns of a dilemma. They signed long-term, managed service contracts for IT or business processes, which took advantage of the savings from labor arbitrage. But now they find that there is significant potential to leverage the new suite of digital technologies that promise improved performance and lower cost. The problem is that that their incumbent service providers often actively resist implementing these technologies, using delaying and obviation tactics, refusing to pas
  • IDG Contributor Network: 5 ways industrial AI is revolutionizing manufacturing

    There’s no doubt that the manufacturing sector is leading the way in the application of artificial intelligence technology. From significant cuts in unplanned downtime to better designed products, manufacturers are applying AI-powered analytics to data to improve efficiency, product quality and the safety of employees.Here’s how:Industry 4.0 and smart maintenance
    In manufacturing, ongoing maintenance of production line machinery and equipment represents a major expense, having a cru
  • The case for cooperative IT: How it works and who it's for

    Over ten years ago, five credit unions came together and formed a credit union service organization (CUSO). A majority interest was held by one, very large credit union, which owned all of the technology, had a full-time IT staff and was running an online banking system. The other players were much smaller credit unions that couldn't afford their own systems or IT staffs. Together, these credit unions formed a technology company that was organized as an S corporation. The company was designed to
  • Software AG’s new CEO urges CIOs to drive digital transformations

    Sanjay Brahmawar spent his first six weeks as CEO of Software AG touring the world to meet colleagues and customers. What he saw convinced him the company’s core integration capabilities are key to enterprise digital transformation. On his way from Sydney, Australia, to the company’s headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany, he stopped in Paris, where CIO.com caught up with him.  To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
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  • BrandPost: How Composable Infrastructure is Making IT Simpler and Faster for Any Workload

    Last fall, when public cloud providers started billing by the second[1], it confirmed what CIOs and CEOs have known for a while: IT infrastructure needs are fluid in a world where markets are formed, disrupted, and reformed in months or even weeks.Bringing the Flexibility of the Public Cloud to Every Data Center
    There’s just one problem, the public cloud can’t serve every need. Some businesses need to physically control every element of their IT, either for security or regulatory re

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