Technology
Earth Day 2021: Technology Innovation Can Restore Our Planet
This year’s Earth Day theme is restoration. We need to reverse the detrimental effects of climate change and stop the pollution of our eco-system to preserve our planet for future generations. Consider this. Every year we are losing 4.7 million hectares of forests, an area larger than Denmark, according to UN data. For sports fans, this …
AT&T Debuts The 5G Innovation Studio
The studio will explore new 5G applications and drive further adoption. What’s the news? AT&T is officially opening the doors to a new innovation space – the AT&T 5G Innovation Studio. The studio, located in Plano, Texas, brings together the power of AT&T’s business, consumer and network organizations to accelerate the path to market for …
The First Ever IoT-Enabled Firefighter Helmet Provides ‘Superpowers’ Through Augmented Reality
Rackspace TechnologyTM (NASDAQ: RXT), a leading end-to-end multicloud technology solutions company, today announced it has worked with Qwake Technologies, a provider of revolutionary visual communication technology for firefighters, to accelerate Qwake’s cloud native approach. The company’s product allows firefighters to more effectively navigate and communicate in low visibility environments through its local and connected platform which leverages the use …
Rackspace Technology Collaborates With Blackline Safety To Expand Core Infrastructure To Support Rapid Growth And Industrial Contact Tracing Solution
Rackspace TechnologyTM (NASDAQ: RXT), a leading end-to-end, multicloud technology solutions company, announced its collaboration with Blackline Safety Corp. (TSX.V: BLN), a global leader of gas detection and connected safety solutions, to help drive critical software innovation and platform improvements that will support its expanding customer base and employee contact tracing solution. Blackline Safety provides wearable …
Apple Expands Free Professional Learning To Help Teachers Champion Creativity
Apple unveiled a new self-paced professional learning offering, Apple Teacher Portfolio, to help educators bring creativity to every lesson and any subject, no matter where learning happens. Apple is also providing updates across its Schoolwork and Classroom apps and the popular Everyone Can Create curriculum, which take advantage of the latest features of iPad and …
My Favorite Open Source Project Management Tools
If you’re managing large and complex projects, try replacing Microsoft Project with an open source option. Projects like building a satellite, developing a robot, or launching a new product are all expensive, involve different providers, and contain hard dependencies that must be tracked. The approach to project management in the world of large projects is …
Datto Explains Cyber Resilience Strategy To MSPs At Datto’s Fourth MSP Technology Day
Datto CISO Ryan Weeks details a practical strategy MSPs can use to develop their cyber resilience capacity in a way that will not overwhelm them, while also introducing some new product features designed to strengthen this capacity. On Thursday, Datto held their fourth annual MSP Technology Day, a half-day virtual event with the theme of …
29% Of Cyber Threats Previously Unknown, HP Research Finds
HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) released its new Quarterly Threat Insights Report, providing analysis of real-world attacks against customers worldwide. The report found that 29% of malware captured was previously unknown* – due to the widespread use of packers and obfuscation techniques by attackers seeking to evade detection. 88% of malware was delivered by email into …
New Research On How COVID-19 Changed The Nature Of IT
The impact of COVID-19 was felt everywhere, and the world of IT—and its budgets—was certainly not spared. Yet, along with the general slowdown in IT investment were widespread reports about how the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digital transformation. To learn more about how organizations are shifting their technology priorities, Google commissioned a study by IDG to …
Moving To The Cloud Doesn’t Prevent Outages
Are we learning from the past? At what point should others take accountability for their actions? When do we stop the cycle that has failed us and try a new approach? The move to the cloud started back in 2006. That was when AWS first started offering IT infrastructure services to other businesses. Over the …