The post-COVID future of data protection for MSPs
How MSPs can help customers master data sprawl, minimise cyber threats and improve productivity. In 1943, with the world at war, Abraham Maslow quietly penned the finishing touches to his seminal theory. 80 years on and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs still stands. The American psychologist …
Organizations making decisions based on outdated data
More than half of organisations are making decisions based on outdated data, according to new research. A global survey of 2,500 data decision-makers commissioned by high-performance analytics database Exasol found than while 84% of organizations are under increasing pressure to make faster decisions as a …
9 data security trends IT departments should expect in 2021
Remote work will lead to more phishing attacks and threats to accounting and marketing departments, according to IT security managers. In the age of COVID-19, remote work is here—and here to stay, according to Gartner. Aside from fundamentally shifting the environment in which employees and managers …
FSMSDC Virtual Business Awards
Small businesses are the backbone of the U.S. economy Over the last 10 years, minority business enterprises accounted for more than 50 percent of the two million new businesses started in the United States and created 4.7 million jobs. There are now more than four …
Adopting a Data-Driven Post-COVID World
Building a data-driven culture isn’t easy, but it’s important. If some government agencies were taking small steps toward digital transformation prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the outbreak of the novel coronavirus certainly accelerated movement in that direction. The global spread of the virus has ushered …
The Mindsets of Innovators in Government
A series of Interviews with high achievers reveals some surprising things about what it takes to get things done in the bureaucracy. here is a governmentwide strategic push to support the development and use of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain and hybrid computing. …
Rite Aid Has Been Using Face Recognition at Hundreds of Stores
Rite Aid used face recognition to scan the faces of every single customer who walked into hundreds of its stores in a program encompassing most of the past decade, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The program spanned eight years, two vendors, and was implemented in 200 stores—a disproportionate number of …
Data Lakes And Data Warehouses: The Two Sides Of A Modern Cloud Data Platform
When it comes to data, today’s CIOs are being pulled in all directions. They’re asked to provide an effective data platform that supports machine learning and other data-driven innovation, but they must also continue to support traditional business intelligence (BI) tools and weekly data reports. …
How can universities carry out data management during COVID-19?
Mark Lee, Key Accounts – Public Sector, Commvault, discusses the importance of carrying out a first-class data management strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond The continuing pandemic is putting many businesses, including those in the public sector, in a very difficult position. Universities, in particular, are …
The construction industry is short on human workers and ripe for a robotic takeover
Construction is a $10 trillion global industry. It’s also mired by waste, severe worker shortages and weak productivity growth — all of which mean the business of building is ripe for a robotic takeover. Productivity — the total economic output per worker — in the construction …