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Carrying on from where we left off, the final post of this series covers three enabling technology trends (Machine Intelligence, Blockchain, and Containers) that are broadly applicable to various [...]

Continuing where we left off last time, this second of three posts on technology trends covers those trends (Adaptive Security and Data Governance, Data Lakes, and Interactive Analytics at Scale) [...]

2016 will see a significant increase in the volume, velocity, and variety of enterprises creating and executing on their digital strategies. This change will only serve to accelerate the shift of [...]

Here are three diverse items from the world of algorithms within the last month that I found interesting. The first is the Objective Revision Evaluation Service (ORES) from Wikimedia Foundation, [...]

Remember the magic eye posters from the 1990’s, like the one above?  When you looked at them straight on, you couldn’t see the picture. But when you allowed yourself to sort of absorb all [...]

Just finished reading a McKinsey Insights article titled How the payments industry is being disrupted. The summary article and the downloadable full report paint a fascinating picture of the [...]

Securing things. Everything. Connected to the Internet. Simple enough, right? IoT security is a vast topic, with a lot of research going on, a lot of literature available, and a lot of different [...]

In the iconic Hollywood classic Sunset Boulevard, Norma Desmond famously utters the last line “All right Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.” Unlike Ms. Desmond, who was a fading and [...]

For a while now, I’ve been on the 7-Minute Workout.  This being 2015, of course I use an app to guide me through the routine, complete with coach’s voice, whistle, badges for staying on track, [...]

This is the fourth article in our series on building an IoT platform using open source components. In the earlier articles in this series, we looked at basic components of an IoT system and [...]