Sensor power loss is the scourge of IoT. Deploying millions of sensors is pretty much a useless endeavor if the devices continually run out of power. IoT sensors can’t collect or transmit data without power. That’s one reason researchers are exploring ambient energy harvesting. Numerous projects have shown that small amounts of power can be generated by converting ambient energy in the environment – from stray magnetic fields, humidity, waste heat, and even unwanted wireless radio…

The Millennial generation is becoming a driving force behind the circular economy of used IT equipment. IT shops have typically bought used gear if they needed to replace old equipment and couldn’t get parts from the vendor. But the idea of buying a low-mileage server with one or two years of use wasn’t very popular. Companies typically bought new. But that’s changing. IT shops of all sizes are increasingly buying used gear, both brand name…

Ceridian is betting on hybrid cloud, network virtualization and automation as it aims to improve IT service delivery, weed out inefficiencies and bolster security. The human capital management (HCM) company recently completed its transition to a cloud architecture, shuttering its on-premises data centers and migrating its applications and back-office systems to multiple clouds. “We are a true consumer of hybrid cloud technology,” says CIO Warren Perlman. “We have operations in both [VMware Cloud on AWS]…

For many decades, the data warehouse was the go-to technology for storing large amounts of data for querying and data mining. This should not be confused with the venerable database, which has a different mode of operation and use. The data lake arrived at the same time as the advent of Big Data. The concept was coined in 2010 by James Dixon, founder of Pentaho (now a part of Hitachi Vantara), in a blog post…