Posts belonging to Category 'New Technology'

Live from Macworld: Timing is Everything.

Coming to you live from the Macworld/MacIT show floor!  Last night more than 700 members of the press flooded the dedicated media event…. And our team must’ve done a demo for every one of them.  Some twice! (read article)   The reaction across the board has been remarkably consistent — the first response is “wow, [...]

It’s the Message, not the Medium

I have five children aged 12 to 24 and I’ve never seen one of them voluntarily pick up a newspaper and read it. This is not as alarming as it may sound because they are appropriately educated, informed and engaged – they just don’t get their information from the daily printed page. Many newspapers in [...]

IT, Meet OT

As I continually meet with customers and engage with industry analysts, it is becoming more apparent the benefits of M2M communications are starting to accelerate. This is a welcome realization for those of us who have been anxiously anticipating this day. M2M technology has already enabled smart grid applications, built management systems, and improved industrial [...]

Adding Connectivity…

In February 2010, an Ericsson Executive predicted that in 20 years, 50 billion devices will be connected to networks.  In a world of ‘only’ 7 billion people this may seem farfetched but adoption rates of network connectivity are accelerating.  We see evidence of this not only in the commercial and industrial market segments but also [...]

100% Chance of Clouds

Cloud Computing is very compelling and definitely here to stay.  It eliminates costly, upfront capital investments in hardware, expensive maintenance contracts, and in some cases (like Amazon’s elastic cloud EC2) the upfront costs of operating systems and applications.  As a company’s needs expand, virtual servers can be added and storage increased with a few keystrokes.  And [...]