Of all the pastimes that took off during the pandemic, it’s not surprising that online gaming was one of them. After all, gaming offers excitement, new experiences, and social interaction, all from the comfort of home. It’s no wonder then that the gaming industry saw a 20% increase in revenue in 2020, as new and previously-retired gamers returned to this pastime.  But while the gaming industry was finding a lot of new allies, the players themselves…

Most large-scale entities need to prove compliance with multiple regulatory standards. In their efforts to meet their compliance mandates, organizations could suffer a major drain on their time and resources. This possibility holds true regardless of whether they’re finance companies, retailers, manufacturers or hospitality firms. Organizations face an additional obstacle when they have an internally created compliance standard that demands enforcement. These types of standards require the same level of monitoring as regulatory policies. They…

Data privacy has been a hot topic in the tech world for years now. With every new technology come new regulations that require companies to completely re-examine the way they handle private data. Most companies already have a basic data privacy policy they constructed alongside lawyers and tech experts to avoid facing serious fines and penalties. However, compliance isn’t just about focusing on current regulations and meeting the bare minimum requirement to avoid legal consequences….

[EXCERPT] Chinese leader Xi Jinping personally directed the communist regime to focus its efforts to control the global internet, displacing the influential role of the United States, according to internal government documents recently obtained by The Epoch Times. In a January 2017 speech, Xi said the “power to control the internet” had become the “new focal point of [China’s] national strategic contest,” and singled out the United States as a “rival force” standing in the…

It’s easy to imagine where we would be without women in technology. We’d be poorer for it. With Mother’s Day upon us, I couldn’t help but think once more about the stark employment figures I shared in my International Women’s Day blog just a few weeks ago. Millions of women have involuntarily left the workforce at a much higher rate than men during the pandemic—with roughly one third of women in the U.S. aged 25-44 citing…

In a recent post I talked about the exciting new topics that came up at the recent NVIDIA GTC. I talked about NVIDIA and VMware’s partnership, and specifically some bits about the AI Ready Enterprise platform. The partnership has grown rapidly and it’s a great reflection on how quickly machine learning is becoming not just mainstream, but mainstream for Enterprise. Digital companies like Amazon, Facebook, Netflix etc. have been using Machine Learning for a long…

In the previous post we looked at what a cloud operating model is and what the typically journey is for enterprises today. It showed that I&O organizations today need to transform their existing infrastructure to become a private cloud and that over time there also would be a need to evolve for the management of multiple clouds. That of course has an impact on the operational model: transitioning from private cloud to multi-cloud. This means…