Did Germany Cheat in World Cup 2014?
Now that I got your attention about Germany’s unfair advantage in the World Cup, I want to talk about how they used AI & analytics to their advantage to win the World Cup—in a legal way. It looks like Germany did a similar thing, legally, and had a virtual 12th man on the field all the time. For those who don’t follow football (the soccer kind) closely, it is played with 11 players on the field.
Secure IoT in the enterprise: Finding a model that works
VENTURE BEAT These days, when you hear about the Internet of things, it’s usually about body sensors, such as Fitbit, or smart home sensors. But while consumers are just now beginning to be exposed to these sensors, they already exist extensively in the enterprise. Industrial-grade sensors are being used in energy, retail, manufacturing, […]
A Proud Storytelling Moment: Know Your Elevator Pitches
IoT, API, Big Data, Mobile, SOA, Cloud & Security Blog Twitter: @AndyThurai This story originally featured on Innovation Insights @ Wired magazine. The year was 2002. Right after 9/11 everyone was hurting, especially the telco sector got almost wiped out – Nortel, Lucent, Alcatel, Avaya, Worldcom, MCI, and the list goes on. Some […]
Prescriptive analytics: an adaptive crystal ball
GIGAOM Knowledge is power, according to Francis Bacon, but knowing how to use knowledge to create an improved future is even more powerful. The birth of a sophisticated Internet of Things has catapulted hybrid data collection, which mixes structured and unstructured data, to new heights. Broken analytics According to Gartner, […]
How to build a hybrid SaaS API management strategy
GIGAOM If you’re trying to combine both a legacy and a cloud deployment strategy without having to do everything twice a hybrid strategy might offer the best of both worlds. That’s we discussed in our first post API Management – Anyway you want it!. In that post, we discussed the different […]
Which Kind of Cyborg Are You?
WIRED Machines are replacing humans in the thinking process. The field of Cognitive Thinking is a mixture of combining rich data collection (with wide array of sensors), machine learning, predictive analysis, and cognitive anticipation in a right mix. Machines can do “just-in-time-machine-learning” rather than using predictive models and are virtually […]
API management —Any way you want it!
GIGAOM Enterprises are building an API First strategy to keep up with their customer needs, and provide resources and services that go beyond the confines of enterprise. With this shift to using APIs as an extension of their enterprise IT, the key challenge still remains choosing the right deployment model. Even […]
How APIs Fuel Innovation
WIRED There has been so much talk about APIs and how they add additional revenue channels, create brand new partnerships, allow business partners to integrate with ease, and how they help with promoting your brand. But an important and under looked aspect, which happens to be a byproduct of this […]
Why we need more control over where our sensitive data is stored, analyzed and processed
Venture Beat Image Credit: Shutterstock Maintain your employer brand in a pandemic Read the VentureBeat Jobs guide to employer brandingDownload eBook Andy Thurai is chief architect and CTO of Intel App security and Big Data (@AndyThurai). David Houlding is privacy strategist at Intel (@DavidHoulding). These days, everyone seems to want our personal […]
Don’t be stupid, use (cloud) protection!
PANDO No matter how you feel about the NSA and the wide net it casts in surveilling people, one thing is certain: All this talk about spying on Americans and foreigners is having an effect on some businesses, namely American cloud companies. It’s also afforded opportunities to cloud companies based […]
