IoT

San Jose, California, USA – ZEDEDA, a specialist in edge orchestration, announced the launch of the ZEDEDA Edge Academy, the free online hub with educational resources on edge computing and ZEDEDA’s solution for unlocking a company’s digital future at the edge.

Edison, NJ, USA. 25 May 2022 – Network engineers and CIOs agree that cybersecurity issues pose the greatest risk to organisations that don’t put networks at the heart of their digital transformation plans. According to research commissioned by Opengear, a Digi International company, 53% of network engineers and 52% of CIOs who participated in the survey​in the US, UK, France, Germany and Australia include cybersecurity in their list of their biggest risks.

Manufacturing has a history of moving at a glacial pace when adopting new technology such as cloud-based solutions, but cloud is not new anymore. In recent years, cloud computing and SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) have begun to dominate, says Jason Chester (director of global channel programme, InfinityQS) discusses 4 reasons why food and beverage processors should consider moving quality to the cloud.

Tampa, Florida, USA. 25 May 2022 – ConnectWise, a software company dedicated to the success of IT solution providers, has adds Todd Hale, chief information officer, and Ciaran Chu, general manager, ConnectWise Control, to its leadership team. They will spearhead innovation and enhance partner experience.

Data analysed by Atlas VPN reveals that Google collects the most information about its users out of five selected tech providers Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, and Apple. Barely anyone has the time or patience to read through dozens of pages of privacy policies for each website.

Stockholm, Sweden. 25 May 2022 – Insurtech company Lumera, has agreed to acquire Ai-London, insurtech experts in delivering AI-driven, open and configurable platforms to life and pension providers. Lumera is focused on digital transformation of the European Life and Pensions industry. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.

Stamford, Connecticut, USA. 24 May 2022 – Generative artificial intelligence (AI), autonomic systems and privacy-enhancing computation are three technology trends gaining traction in banking and investment services in 2022, according to Gartner, Inc. These trends will continue to grow over the next two to three years, contributing to growth and transformation of financial services organisations.

Berlin and New York. 24 May 2022 – Spryker, an enterprise digital commerce platform for business-to-business (B2B), enterprise marketplaces, Unified Commerce (UC) and D2C, has released a new version of its App Composition Platform at Spryker EXCITE 2022.

Over a quarter (26%) of financial services organisations believe web scraping has had the greatest impact on revenue out of all external data collection methods. This is one of the key findings from the new Oxylabs white paper, Alternative Data Unlocks Key Decisions in the UK & US Finance Industries, demonstrating how web scraping is shaping the sector in terms of gathering data and using it to improve services and generate revenue.

Reading, UK. 19 May 2022 – Egnyte, the specialist in cloud content security and governance, released the findings of a benchmarking survey of UK Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) professionals to evaluate how the industry is responding to the threat of ransomware attacks. The survey reveals that despite 87% of respondents having strong concerns about ransomware attacks, 71% describe their firm’s recovery strategy as being ‘weak’, ‘could be better,’ or admit to having ‘no plan.’

From major advances in medicine to taking the automotive industry by storm, the widespread implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming global industry at every level. As technologies, such as Big Data, robotics, and the Internet of things (IoT) continue to advance at a phenomenal rate, AI is becoming a key driver in global innovation, says Dr. Ray O. Johnson, chief executive officer, Technology Innovation Institute (TII).

London, UK. 19 May 2022 – Global Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP), SecurityHQ, have announced their partnership with cyber security solutions provider, SentinelOne.

London, UK. 18 May 2022 – KnowBe4, the provider of the security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, announced that its research arm, KnowBe4 Research, has launched the 2022 Security Culture Report, which looked at trends in security culture for the first time, finding that security culture worldwide has improved overall.

Mentor, Ohio & San Diego – Avery Dennison Corporation, the provider of RFID and digital ID solutions, and Wiliot, the Internet of Things provider, announced a strategic partnership dedicated to scaling the IoT to the next level, creating a new era of IoT that benefits people and the planet.

“Procurement has gone digital with a focus on cost-effectively sourcing the right technology platforms prevailing over the purchasing of physical IT assets to drive growth and productivity, and reliable mobile connectivity is integral to this process,” says Stuart Waine, director of research and development at Spry Fox Networks.

Today at Intel Vision, Intel announced that Habana Labs, its data centre team focused on AI deep learning processor technologies, launched its second-generation deep learning processors for training and inference: Habana Gaudi2 and Habana Greco. These new processors address an industry gap by providing customers with high-performance, high-efficiency deep learning compute choices for both training workloads and inference deployments in the data centre while lowering the AI barrier to entry for companies of all sizes.

It has been reported that the number of connected IoT devices will exceed 75 billion by 2025 (Source, Findstack), meaning for every human on earth, there will be approximately nine connected devices, says Jordan Appleson, CEO at Hark.

We live in a world where artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming ever more integrated into our lives and the economy. It’s no surprise, therefore, that it’s also getting some serious funding.

London, UK. 11 May 2022 – The financial services industry is embracing digital transformation plans that were accelerated as a result of the pandemic, according to a major recent study from Vodafone Business. This has led to 29% of financial services firms globally being considered ‘Fit for the Future’ (FFTF) and better prepared to deal with future challenges such as increased competition, changing employee expectations, and rising customer demand.

Lagos, Nigeria. 11 May 2022 – elev8 education, a global digital skilling and transformative education partner, has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Training Partner programme. Through this program, elev8 will deliver cloud computing skills training, developed and maintained by AWS, to organisations and learners in Nigeria and Rwanda.

Armonk, NY, USA. 10 May 2022 – IBM announced education initiatives with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Specialisterne Foundation, and six Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs) to provide no-cost STEM job training to U.S. military veterans, neurodivergent learners worldwide, and university students from underrepresented communities in the U.S.

London, UK. 10 May 2022 – Cybereason, the XDR company, launched new Incident Response (IR) and Professional Services subscription bundles with services designed to help organisations measure and optimise their security program, packaged with unlimited incident response services that identify, contain and remediate malicious cyber incidents in minutes.

According to Arimo, manufacturers can deal with up to 800 hours of downtime per year. As unscheduled downtime is far more costly than planned downtime, it’s important that manufacturers have real-time information about their equipment and processes to avoid unexpected faults and failures. Here Johan Jonzon, CMO and co-founder of edge analytics platform developer, Crosser, explains how edge analytics provides instantaneous data to prevent unscheduled downtime.

Trusted cybersecurity firm, Trustonic, has been granted Common Criterial Evaluation Assurance Level [EAL] 5+ for its Kinibi operating system [OS].

Innodisk, a global specialist in industrial storage and embedded peripherals, is delighted to announce its latest business strategy. Together with its subsidiaries, Innodisk will make every effort to promote Edge AI computing technologies to the world.

Hampshire, UK. 9 May 2022 – A new study from Juniper Research has predicted that the global spend using QR code payments will reach over $3 trillion (€2.85 trillion) by 2025; rising from $2.4 trillion (€2.28 trillion) in 2022.

Ballymore Group founder and group CEO Sean Mulryan has acquired a significant minority stake in the Zoosh Group (Zoosh), the cloud venture builder. He will now join the board as a non-executive director along with the four founders Balazs Bakos, Bert Farrell, David Brophy and Mervyn Graham.