This article describes an experiment under way at China Southern Airlines that is weaving augmented reality, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and 5G connectivity into a single network that is being used to extend human capacities, enhance safety, and improve performance. Technologies sometimes take a surprisingly long
Category: Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage and computing power, without direct active management by the user. The term is generally used to describe data centers available to many users over the Internet. Large clouds, predominant today, often have functions distributed over multiple locations from central servers. If the connection to the user is relatively close, it may be designated an edge server.
Investigator’s Nightmare Denonia Malware: A Specifically Designed Malware To Run In An AWS Lambda Environment
AWS Lambda is one of the many tools provided by Amazon Web Services. It allows the execution of code using a serverless method. Now, a group of cybercriminals has found a way to exploit it and run malware on it. AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that allows the
In Times Of Crisis And Uncertain World, It Is Important For Companies To Become Future Ready
What makes a company “future ready”? The author analyzed top companies by revenue across four sectors, measuring seven equally weighted factors, then analyzed what leading companies were doing differently. They discovered industry specific insights, which also informed more universal lessons. First, don’t play zero-sum games with disruptors. Looking at the
Digital Transformation In Health Care: Building A New Business Models To Co-Create Goods And Services, Wider Customer Reach, Access To New Capabilities, And Increase Revenue
Health tech innovators are investing in the Future of Health through platform businesses. Digital platforms can bring together ecosystem participants to build new business models that co-create goods and services, enable wider customer reach, access to new capabilities, and increase revenue. Executive Summary COVID-19, value-based care, data liquidity, consumer expectations,
The Benefits Of Integrating The Tax Function Into Cloud-Based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Solutions
AS the COVID-19 crisis has made crystal clear, agility is key to survival in the face of disruption. Those organizations foresighted enough to have digitized, automated, and cloud-enabled their back-office processes have been able to pivot toward recovery. Those still pushing paper and working with on-premise systems have struggled. In
Public Sector Cloud Adoption: To Take An Advantage Of The Scalability, Flexibility, And Shareability Inherent In Cloud, You Have To Adapt It
The pandemic has accelerated government organizations’ adoption of cloud. But it has also shifted how those organizations use the cloud – using cloud’s scalability, flexibility, and shareability to revolutionize services. How can they keep up the momentum? Introduction The pandemic caused many government agencies to dive headfirst into cloud. The
Cloud Goes Vertical: From Infrastructure To Industry-Specific Verticals
Industry-specific cloud solutions can enable organizations to automate manual tasks and shift their focus to competitive differentiation. Cloud and software vendors now offer vertical-specific solutions that modernize legacy processes and jump-start innovation, freeing organizations to focus resources on competitive differentiation. As the global economy moves from a pandemic footing to
New Era Of Data Monetization: Advances In Data-Sharing Technologies Made It Easy To Share Data While Preserving Security And Privacy
New technologies give rise to innovative business models and products by simplifying the mechanics of data-sharing across and between organizations – all while preserving the veil of privacy. Thanks to advances in data-sharing technologies, you can buy and sell potentially valuable information assets in highly efficient, cloud-based marketplaces. Combine this
Digital Technology For The Future Of The Planet: Lives, Society, And The Physical Environment
Digital technology is becoming an indispensable and crucial component of our lives, society and the environment. We present a framework for computing in the context of problems facing the planet. The framework has a number of goals: an optimal digital infrastructure, sensing and optimizing with a global world model, reliably
Cloud Innovation Strategy: Four Potential Circumstances For Future Of Cloud Innovation Programs In Any Organizations
Cloud innovation programs have competing priorities across the c-suite. Organizations can better align business outcomes with technical requirements and gain economies of scale across these programs with scenario thinking. Introduction What if a large hospital system could aggregate all of its data for opioid prescriptions – how many milligrams were
Cloud Migration: A Cohesive Approach To Cloud Strategy – Implementing The Right Mix Of Security, Trust, And Business Agility
Introduction Increasingly, global organizations are migrating from legacy on-premise infrastructure to the cloud in order to achieve greater business agility and resilience with a modern IT approach. Yet too often, cloud migration and cybersecurity are considered separately, with different teams focused on different phases of what could be a shared
Creating XaaS Business (Anything As A Service): Building Scalable Lead-To-Cash Operations For Industry 4.0 With Sales And Back-Office Capabilities
In an XaaS environment, leaders are looking to meet changing customer needs by transforming their lead-to-cash value chain. In the 16th article in our series on digital industrial transformation, we examine how to institute a scalable yet flexible omnichannel sales process. Introduction Shifting to an as-a-service purchasing model can present
