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Why conventional vs. autonomous cars is not a zero-sum game | #NAIAS
It’s not difficult to find predictions about autonomous vehicles completely replacing conventional ones in the near future. Naturally, this may have some in the automotive business worried about the industry’s trajectory. Will there be a place for their skills as conventional car engineers in the autonomous future? “I strongly believe that we still will have conventional cars ...
Why reinvent the wheel? A smart way for startups making inroads to smart cars | #NAIAS
In Los Angeles, the joke is that everyone and their mother has a script they’d like to sell. In Silicon Valley, the joke could be that everybody has an idea for an app. PC and mobile users are bombarded daily with offers to download yet another one. It’s not hard to see why some startups ...
Your network is your net worth: How security affects the bottom line in the Digital Age | #ACCELERATE2017
Disagreement on exact numbers aside, most everyone agrees that Internet of Things products will increase in coming years, with Gartner’s estimate clocking in at 20 billion. The actual number of events that come out of these connected devices is staggering, creating rich opportunities for hackers looking to cash in on device-accessed data. How will businesses secure all of ...
Uh-oh — is your enterprise security spending about to go up threefold? | #ACCELERATE2017
Recent cyber security research suggests nearly 90 percent of companies’ security budgets go toward the perimeter. Ironically, the research reveals that only about 20 to 25 percent of breaches occur there — the rest happen on the inside. Does this mean that enterprises should reverse their spending ratio? Or will they have to keep spending steady at ...
The finance sector is suddenly stampeding to public cloud for — security? | #ACCELERATE2017
There is an unexpected wave of financial institutions moving to public cloud. Even as many still believe tightly regulated institutions like banks and healthcare organizations will forever be bound to on-prem infrastructure, some on the ground are reporting, “au contraire.” Shockingly, one of the biggest draws the public cloud has for them was once its biggest ...
Security blanket: Can new tactics provide full data coverage in the Digital Age? | #ACCELERATE2017
Cloud-native security products are cropping up to mitigate cyber security’s “M&M” problem — firewall protection at the parameters with vulnerable data at the center. As companies amass increasingly huge datasets to differentiate themselves in the data-driven Digital Age, the problem of protecting it all remains. Wouldn’t it be great if they could just throw a ...
Feedback frenzy: Can subscription business fill in data blanks? | #theCUBE
As companies struggle to convert the right data types into a profit punch, new approaches are tested and discarded. One method for honing in on customer behavior may lie in the emerging subscription economy. Can the data flowing in from subscriptions, combined with other data inputs, help businesses better understand their consumers? David Gee, CMO of ...
Will data-driven ‘communication cloud’ create an influence economy in media and PR? | #theCUBE
Some say that having access to data is like shining a light on the dark corners of a business: The cockroaches scurry and the flowers bloom. In other words, data lets the C-suite know which investments are working and which are not. In the marketing and public relations realms, data has given companies the ability to ...
Next-gen CRM: Changing the customer relations game in the Digital Age | #theCUBE
What happens to companies’ marketing efforts in the age of internet reviews and social sharing? Consumers are turning to the wisdom of crowds online for the straight dope before making a purchase. A fancy and expensive advertising blitz could bring disappointing returns if the internet’s response is more jeers than cheers. Companies and salespeople will ...
Stop starving IT: misallocation of data resources could hurt business | #theCUBE
Companies gearing up to make a big data play need to be careful they don’t simply spray bullets in every direction and hit everything but their target. According to some, many companies are seriously misallocating resources in their efforts to profit from data. The imbalance lies in the data pipeline worker bees versus decision makers ...