Fighting fire with fire
Data sprawl, fragmentation and silos are seen as the inevitable fallout of the ever-accelerating rate at which technology evolves. Problems that are bound to get worse as companies look to the cloud to deliver digital transformation. But they do not have to. According to Andrew Fitzgerald, sales director for Western Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa, at Cohesity businesses […]
Spatial computing will be an important tool for boosting factory performance and remote manufacturing
Spatial Computing has the power to optimise factories of the future and give us more frontline control according to one of the world’s leading IoT specialists. PTC’s Valentin Heun has been leading the company’s research and development work in this area and believes it’s the purest form yet of blending technology into the real world, […]
Siemens makes industrial data accessible and actionable
Siemens Digital Industries Software is leveraging the Mendix low-code application development platform to help customers across industries build contextual and personalised solutions and help enable data-driven decision-making processes. With the general availability of Mendix Data Hub and new Mendix for Industrial Edge services, customers can achieve an end-to-end view of their plants, factories, and systems […]
Historic agreement in digital transformation across the oil and gas industry
Schlumberger, IBM, and Red Hat have announced a collaboration to accelerate digital transformation across the oil and gas industry. The joint initiative will provide global access to Schlumberger’s exploration and production (E&P) cloud-based environment and cognitive applications by leveraging IBM’s hybrid cloud technology, built on the Red Hat OpenShift container platform. The collaborative development will initially […]
Organisations struggle to meet application delivery requirements with existing infrastructure
According to a report from NS1 organisations are beefing up enterprise network and application modernisation budgets to add automation, traffic management, and monitoring The NS1-sponsored study, ‘Meeting Application and Access Network Modernisation Challenges’, conducted by IDG examined enterprise network and application modernisation efforts, defined as the transformation of IT platforms of all types, applications, governance, […]
Patients set to benefit from Artificial Intelligence health solutions
Patients could benefit from faster and more effective introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) innovations to diagnose and treat disease – thanks to the first international standards for reporting of clinical trials for AI. As evaluation of health interventions involving machine learning or other AI systems moves into clinical trials, an international group has developed guidelines […]
ABB offers augmented reality on a smartphone to simplify robot installations
Discovering whether a robot is right for your application has never been easier following the launch of ABB’s new Augmented Reality viewer, which has been added to ABB’s powerful PC-based RobotStudio offline programming software. The app can be used to test any model created in RobotStudio, enabling users to get an idea of the size […]
5G and IoT are poised to revolutionise the manufacturing industry
Much of the fanfare about 5G has been focused on consumer benefits and there will be many to be sure. However, the new global, wireless standard designed to connect virtually everyone and everything including machines, objects and devices will arguably have an even larger impact in the enterprise market. While its name signifies the fifth […]
Computing giant created for the age of artificial intelligence
NVIDIA has reached an agreement with SoftBank to acquire Arm in a transaction valued at $40 billion. The combination brings together NVIDIA’s leading AI computing platform with Arm’s vast ecosystem to create the premier computing company for the age of artificial intelligence, accelerating innovation while expanding into large, high-growth markets. SoftBank will remain committed to […]
Half of UK organisations admit they haven’t updated security for the cloud
Nearly 50% of UK IT leaders are exposing their organisation to unnecessary extra cyber-risk because they have failed to upgrade security strategies to take account of their cloud environments, according to new research from Trend Micro commissioned exclusively for CLOUDSEC Online. The findings come from a three-part report series designed to create a Cloud Security […]
UK faces AI skills gap, Microsoft report reveals
The UK is facing an AI skills gap that could leave companies struggling to compete with rivals from across the world, a new Microsoft report has revealed. The research, entitled AI Skills in the UK, also found that businesses in this country use less AI than firms overseas, and when they do it tends to be less advanced. […]
Trusted Connectivity Alliance publishes recommendations to enhance subscriber privacy in 5G
Trusted Connectivity Alliance (TCA), formerly SIMalliance, has published a white paper outlining the clear benefits of 5G SIM capabilities to protect the most prominent personal data involved in mobile communications – the International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI). The paper has already been welcomed by Eurosmart, and the digital security organisation has expressed its full support […]
3D printing poses a grave and growing threat to people’s privacy, experts warn
3D printing technology poses a grave and growing threat to individual privacy because of the potential for products to reveal private information about individuals, experts have warned. People could use cameras, laptops, or mobile phones to track and trace the origins of 3D printed objects and how they have been used if they have watermarks. […]
A touch of gold sends crystals electric with excitement
A touch of gold – or another noble metal – can change the structure of crystals and their intrinsic properties, physicists at the University of Warwick have demonstrated in a display of modern-day alchemy. Scientists at the University of Warwick have found a way to induce electric effects in crystals that they were not previously […]
Emerson Invests in inmation Software
Emerson has made an equity investment in inmation Software, a global software platform developer that further deepens Emerson’s data management and integration capabilities, helping customers in process, discrete and hybrid industries advance their digital transformation programmes to achieve top quartile performance. The investment will increase data visibility and provide unified, actionable information to empower fast […]
Octopus Energy fuels global growth with AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that Octopus Energy has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider. The disruptive UK energy retailer, is leveraging AWS’s proven scalability and security, as well as its unmatched portfolio of services, including compute, analytics, storage, databases, and machine learning (ML), to improve its customer experience and support the company’s […]
NGMN Alliance publishes second 5G white paper
After the universally recognised NGMN 5G White Paper published in 2015, the NGMN Alliance followed up with another leading message to the mobile industry demonstrating how NGMN continues to drive the ecosystem forward. Whilst initial 5G services have been launched, there is much more underway to realise the full potential of 5G. The NGMN White […]
Arm and Vodafone take a big step forward with universal CPE
Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) has been ripe for innovation for years. Hundreds of millions of CPE devices such as network switches, Wi-Fi routers, and firewall appliances have been deployed at enterprise customers serviced by telcom providers. While CPEs can rival servers in technical sophistication or performance requirements, these so-called black boxes differ from application servers […]
ABB’s new 3D inspection robot system makes quality control testing ten times faster
A 3D quality inspection robot system, up to ten times faster than Coordinated Measuring Machine (CMM) systems, can dramatically accelerate production by providing fast, accurate testing to make metrology easier and less time consuming. Capable of detecting defects of less than half the width of a human hair and imperceptible to the naked eye, the […]
Digital Manufacturing – The analytical path to a smarter, cleaner future
As GE Digital unveils the latest enhancements to its digital manufacturing solutions, Connected Technology Solutions spoke to Richard Kenedi, GM manufacturing – digital plant, about how industrial companies are progressing on the digital transformation journey and the impact that COVID-19 is having on the manufacturing sector. What are you hearing from your customers about how […]
How business transformation really works
Kevin Bull, product strategy director at Columbus, explains how manufacturers who successfully master the constant battle to transform their processes will reap the considerable rewards of digital technologies. When Harley-Davidson wanted to enhance productivity at its motorcycle plant, the company deployed networked sensors and smart devices throughout the factory to collect data on its machines […]
