Check Point Research puts a spotlight on the hospitality industry with an underground market for selling flight points, hotel rewards and stolen credentials of airline accounts.   Check Point Research reveals a growing industry selling credentials to stolen hotel and airline accounts. The end goal is to get access to accounts with reward points and sell […]

The pandemic drove this sector into recession but to cope with recovery and business ramp up, technology and innovation must play a role here says Paul Armstrong at Amazon Web Services. Organisations are looking at global trends and early indicators of the nature and scale of recovery, and what form this could take. It is […]

Executives will continue to grapple with challenges during the 2020s, but from the maelstrom new business opportunities will arise says Mark Raskino at Gartner. A decade-long boom, generated substantially from inexpensive finance and lower-cost energy, led to structural stresses such as highly leveraged debt, crumbling international alliances and bubble-like asset prices. We were overdue for […]

Service robots differ dramatically from industrial robots, performing work much closer to humans in the home or at work, explains Mohammed Aldousari at Proven Robotics. The futuristic vision of humanity has always been of a society where devices of all sorts, little and large, are capitalised on by people to improve the quality of personal […]

Ram Ramachandran at Tech Mahindra describes the key role that CIOs need to play in taking their enterprises to a leading position in regional market and the role of innovation. I was reading an article recently and this phrase caught my attention, “CIOs can be trend masters or trend victims.” Very aptly, I believe this […]

Cyber ranges provide evidence which can be presented to regulation Boards and shareholders, proving that an organisation’s systems are combat-ready says James Gerber at SimSpace. In March 2022, the Security Exchanges Commission, SEC issued a proposed regulation titled Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Governance, and Incident Disclosure. Within it, the SEC describes the need to enhance […]

Manufacturers should align with industrial software channel partners to facilitate migration to hybrid cloud platforms, that have end to end data integration, explains Kerry Grimes at AVEVA. Since the 1990s, manufacturing organisations have taken gradual steps to automate and digitise their processes and operations by adopting ERP software. However, ERP applications were never intended to […]

Stephen Reynolds, Industry Principal Chemicals, AVEVA, explains how a digital twin, which replicates company assets in the cloud, helps to design low carbon processes and plants. In recent decades, digital technology has been successfully used to optimise plant operations, increase production, or reduce costs. But today, field-proven software can go so much further – allowing […]

The advantages of Network as a Service exceed those of asset purchases or leasing and CFOs need to begin their diligence here, writes Jacob Chacko, Regional Director Middle East, Saudi and South Africa at Aruba HPE.  The mainstream adoption of cloud has created an environment where CFOs are increasingly comfortable with consumption of IT in […]

Every time an engine runs, it generates heat. Anyone who has felt the warmth behind their fridge can confirm this. The same is true on a larger scale in supermarkets, datacentres, factories, wastewater facilities, metro stations and commercial buildings. Excess heat can be reused to supply a factory with heat and warm water or reused […]