When a company’s product involves consumable dairy beverages, including milk and infant nutrition, safety is top of mind for everyone in the organization. That includes the information-technology staff at Royal FrieslandCampina N.V., a Dutch company that distributes dairy products around the world. “The challenge that we’re having is, we have to make sure that everything is ...

Although the past decade has seen innovation at a pace and scale without precedent, it’s time to fasten those seat belts. The world is about to enter a new phase that will be innovation in which emerging technologies will be invented at light speed not by a few bright minds in isolation, but collectively by thousands at any one ...

It’s called the “IKEA Effect.” In 2012, researchers from the Harvard Business School published the results of a study that showed that the act of building something on one’s own, such as building furniture acquired from an IKEA store, imbued it with value beyond its inherent quality. This principle applies to more than just sweating over ...

The fifth generation of cellular network technology known as 5G is gradually being deployed by carriers, but initial delivery is likely to be enterprise focused and will have a profound impact on the flow of network traffic and services. That’s the conclusion of Vikram Saksena (pictured), chief technology officer of cable markets at NetScout Systems ...

Enterprise security today demands not just a next-generation firewall, but intrusion detection and endpoint monitoring. As businesses migrate to a hybrid computing model comprised of on-premises and cloud operations, a solution with baked-in security that can deliver these and other key features across a complex infrastructure has genuine appeal. The Secure SD-WAN offered by Open Systems ...

Artificial intelligence has propelled many enterprise sectors, but perhaps none faster than the field of robotic process automation, or RPA. A recent Gartner Inc. report found that the RPA market grew 63% in 2018, making it the fastest-growing enterprise software category. And the market leader, according to Gartner, is UiPath Inc. Founded out of Romania ...

Zscaler Inc. has an interesting message for security professionals: Don’t bother with securing the network. Worry instead about securing user access to the right applications wherever the data resides. The company’s flagship services deliver fast, secure connections between user and application regardless of location, network or device. “The network is an important transport, but it ...

Investors are pouring a lot of money flow into bitcoin, but participants in the cryptocurrency market may be missing the real story: Ethereum is about to reinvent itself, and the impact could have far-reaching consequences throughout the enterprise world. Released in 2015, Ethereum has grown to become the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. It differs ...

There are at least 50,000 professional skills in the world, according to recent data provided by LinkedIn, and the number one hard skill that companies need most in 2019 is cloud computing. That single fact should send students rushing to fill classes in the field, yet there are currently 700,000 unfilled information technology jobs in ...

During the economic recession of 2008 and 2009, brought on by a collapse of the U.S. real estate market, business mergers and acquisitions were few and far between. Uncertainty in the stock market left what few offers there were as cash-only deals, a rare opportunity. Yet, one tech company not only got acquired in 2009 for ...