Information Technology

CIOs spending more time on innovation than ever before

London 26th January, 2022: CIOs are spending more time on innovation, with three quarters stating they have increased innovation efforts, according to the 2021 Global CIO Survey from Logicalis, a global provider of IT solutions. The study, which questions 1,000 CIOs from around the world, finds that despite a strong focus on innovation, just 27% of CIOs describe innovation as part of their company culture.

UltimateSuite Recognized as a Task Mining Market Leader by Research Firm Deep Analysis

Prague, The Czech Republic – January 20th 2022 – UltimateSuite, the tasking mining company, today announced that it has gained further endorsement for its products and approach as advisory firm Deep Analysis identified the company as a market leader in the Task Mining space, commenting favorably on its highly granular data analysis and visualization capabilities. The company was also regarded as a valuable SaaS offering for continuous business improvement and initiating new automation projects. While Task Mining is a known concept, UltimateSuite’s ability to collect task data and automate the manual analysis processes have been identified as valuable additions that not many other solutions provide.

Endpoint Malware and Ransomware Volume Exceeded 2020 Totals by End of Q3 2021

19 January 2022 – Endpoint malware and ransomware detections surpassed the total volume seen in 2020 by the end of Q3 2021, according to researchers at the WatchGuard Threat Lab. In its latest Internet Security Report, WatchGuard also highlights that a significant percentage of malware continues to arrive over encrypted connections. While zero-day malware increased by just 3% to 67.2% in Q3 2021, the percentage of malware that arrived via Transport Layer Security (TLS) jumped from 31.6% to 47%. WatchGuard’s data shows that many organizations are not decrypting these connections and therefore have poor visibility into the amount of malware hitting their networks.

Real-time inventory visibility to be the top priority for 43% of retailers

Dallas, Texas - 17th January 2022: SML, an end-to-end RFID specialist for brands around the globe, has announced today that it has released part two of its State of Retail Insight Report: Better Serving Customers Through Technology, finding that 43% of retailers believe enhanced stock level visibility would help them better serve customers and increase the overall customer experience.

TurinTech’s evoML reduces AI’s carbon emissions by 50% with multi-objective optimization

London, UK; 12th January 2022: TurinTech, the UK company which empowers businesses to build efficient and scalable AI by automating the whole data science lifecycle, has announced its greener AI platform- evoML- which reduces AI’s carbon emissions by 50%.

With the average carbon footprint of AI equivalent to five times the lifetime emissions of an average car, TurinTech is the first company to optimise model code efficiency for quicker inference speed, which lowers memory and energy consumption and reduces carbon emissions. It also uses multi-objective optimisation to help businesses speed up the end-to-end data science process from months to weeks, while also increasing the flexibility of model deployment.

socPub: Relaunching CMS Report and having fun at the After Work Pub

It make take awhile but when I make a mistake I will eventually admit and correct the error of my ways. Half a decade ago, I turned my back on supporting niche websites and focused all my effort in creating a new multi-topic website which you now know as socPub. As counter-intuitive that it sounds, the more diverse and interesting topics we published under this website, our number of loyal visitors to the website decreased in numbers. I found this analysis to be alarming and discouraging.

The Rise of a New Analytics Hero in 2022

Every year industry pundits predict data and analytics becoming more valuable the following year. But this doesn’t take a crystal ball to predict. There’s actually something much more interesting happening that’s going to change everything in the analytics world: the rise of a new hero, the software developer.

If the past is any indication of the future, then what we are seeing is a major transformation unfolding across every industry: a changing of the guard, so to speak, of the ones who are creating value from data.

Why IoT Will Grow Even More in 2022

As years pass, technology becomes more advanced and more industries can benefit from using these technologies. Some examples include artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, which have caused significant shifts in the way companies operate. 

One technology becoming more prevalent in tech and manufacturing is the Internet of Things (IoT). It’s a popular topic of discussion, and as 2022 is just around the corner, it’s interesting to see what types of predictions are being made regarding the IoT’s impact.

Four in Ten Retail and E-commerce Organizations Struggle to Find the Most Efficient Tools for Data Acquisition

More than 40% of retail and e-commerce organizations have struggled to find the most efficient tools or tech stack for data acquisition over the past 12 months to help them rapidly analyze data in real-time resulting in actionable business insights; with 39% of respondents struggling to find reliable partners to outsource their web scraping activities to and 40% finding it challenging to ensure the quality of the data they were collecting.

Survey: Businesses are struggling to manage hybrid cloud environments

Cambridge UK, December 9 – The big move to the cloud is bringing as many challenges as opportunities, a major database monitoring survey from Redgate has found. With 80% of organizations now using a mix of cloud and on-premises database environments, the survey shows that the focus of data professionals is shifting to addressing the difficulties of migrating to the cloud ahead of improving the performance of their database estates.