Tech Insights

The Future of Increasing Manufacturing Performance

By James Wood, Director, Aptean MES

In a world where margins continue to shrink and capacities have to be used as wisely as possible, manufacturing execution systems (MES) have grown into an essential tool for manufacturers. Here...

The Disturbing Cyber Threat Targeting Medical Devices

By Brian W. Horton, CEO, IT Strategy, Inc

Hackers have found another way to extort the medical community and their patients. There's a disturbing trend of cyber-thieves targeting medical devices in doctors' offices and hospitals. The very...

The distributed Data Center

By Travis L Brown, Director of Technology, Hutto ISD

The data center as we know it, in its massive warehouse style space is evolving. Many corporations and educational facilities are finding that the precious space demands they use to house their...

Business and IT transformation based on new Cloud technologies

By Vladimir Kuptsov, Sr. Director Infrastructure, HMS Host

Based on my 15 years’ experience in Global IT, I would like to combine major common business transformation issues and successes in a 21st Century. First of all, if business think to stay on a...

The CIO: Thinking like a CEO

By Tim Crawford, CIO Strategic Advisor, AVOA

Over the past 30 years, now is the best time to be a CIO. The role of the CIO is in transition. At the same time, the CIO is increasingly more critical to businesses. The CIO role is moving from a...

The Business Value of Security

By Mark Schwartz, Board Member, DigitalTown

What is the business value of security? If a product owner is making decisions about how to prioritize user stories, features, or work items, how does he or she decide how to prioritize work items related...

The Age of Digital Transformation

By Meg Whitman, CEO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Although we’ve been anticipating it for years, I think we can all agree that the digital revolution is now transforming every aspect of our lives—at home and in business...

The 5 biggest security concerns after "Wannacry"

By Mukul Chopra, Director, Digital Transformation Center, COMPAREX

While we are still reeling from the aftermath of the “Wannacry“ ransomware exploit and the global impact of the cyber threat and the extreme vulnerability of key industries, it might not be too early to...

Technology Trends for People—Accenture Tech Vision 2017

By Paul Daugherty, Chief Technology & Innovation Officer at Accenture

Within the last year, we’ve experienced no small degree of change globally, and if there is perhaps one thing most people can agree upon, it is that we have much more change ahead of us. I’ve been...

Technology Trends – A Strange New World

By Art Huenecke, Information Technology, Academy of General Dentistry

With the continued convergence of all kinds of technological change and the human it is time to take a brief look and see where things are headed. Everything will be connected at some point soon. It will...

Technology is the easy part… Unfortunately

By Doug Reynolds, CIO, SMB Executive

Who of us hasn't fallen for the promise of a "bright, shiny object" that didn't meet expectations? Remember that product we bought, or the solution we built, that was going to solve a big problem...

Technology is a Checkbox – In the cloud

By Sam Schoelen, CITO/CSO, Continental Resources

Ever since I have taken the plunge into the world of cloud technologies one theme has been obvious; all the solutions and decisions that were so difficult to maneuver through have now become as easy...