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Articles by Rick Delgado
How Network Security Can Benefit a Small Business
In a world where security threats seem to rise up every day, protecting vital business data is more important than ever before. Stories of large corporations suffering from security breaches seem to be a common sight in the headlines now. It’s something every company wishes to avoid, but finding ways to fight present and future attackers has proven challenging to say the least.
Tech for the Hungry: Why Technology is Key for Feeding the World
What a great irony it is that we live in a world where there is more than enough food to feed all seven billion people, yet statistics show that 870 million people go hungry every year. One person out of every nine lacks the daily nutritional requirements to “be healthy and lead an active life.” At this point, ending world hunger depends not on getting more food, but on improving technologies that identify where it is needed most, and get it distributed there quickly and efficiently.
What the Future Holds for Data Storage
Predicting future changes in the world of technology can be a tricky endeavour. New products and innovations are revealed so rapidly that even experts may be caught unprepared. Even so, that doesn't mean looking into the future is without merit as it helps businesses and industries plan ahead. One of the most important aspects of any organization’s operations is the use of storage, particularly as more of the world becomes driven by data.
How Machine-Learning-as-a-Service Can Help the Internet of Things Reach its Potential
By the sound of it, the Internet of Things (IoT) might be one of the biggest technological breakthroughs since the invention of the internet itself. The basic concept revolves around sensors embedded in nearly anything (mobile devices, clothing, manufacturing equipment, appliances, etc.) being able to communicate with each other, providing for a more convenient interconnected life with the cloud.
7 Tech Experts To Follow on Social Media (and Why)
August 3rd, 2015 Tech Rick Delgado Social Media Week is a leading news platform and worldwide conference that curates and shares the best ideas and insights into social media and technology's impact on business, society, and culture. Access exclusive SMW+ content by marketers whose careers you can emulate with a free 30-day trial! The tech industry is full of experts and even celebrities, and many become influencers on social media.
How CIOs are Finding Unlikely Partnerships with CMOs
Successful business ventures usually come down to effective collaboration and teamwork. After all, a good team that works well together can overcome almost any challenge if they set their minds to it. Unfortunately, many organizations still operate as if they’re only a collection of separate divisions with high walls keeping them apart. This has largely been true when it comes to marketing teams and IT.
Three onboarding trends to look out for in 2019 | Articles | Chief Human Resources Officer
Hiring has never been more important. The business world is experiencing an enormous growth spurt as the economy becomes more global. The rise of technology in the digital age has created an atmosphere that means companies need to be more efficient with their day-to-day tasks. This means that companies more than ever need to hire the right employees who are going to help them get ahead of trends so that they can become the leaders in their markets.
Five ways AI will change the recruitment process | Articles | Chief Technology Officer
Data and AI are not only helping companies to compete but also infiltrating every part of our lives. One area that AI has already made a definitive business impact is in talent acquisition. AI can help automate tasks for recruiters and provide them with insights they have never thought of.
How 2018 has changed the role of the CHRO | Articles | Chief Strategy Officer
The chief human resources officer (CHRO) has a vital role within any company or organization in 2018. Gone are the days where the CHRO simply made overarching decisions on behalf of talent acquisition and employee retainment and satisfaction. In this article, we consider some of the ways that the CHRO is making a significant impact in the modern workplace.
How big data has changed the music industry | Articles | Chief Data Officer
Spotify has announced their first music streaming analytics tool, also known as Publishing Analytics. It would give music publishing companies daily streaming statistics for recordings, such as data about the songwriters and how many albums they have sold since their debut. Furthermore, the program will aim to accurately evaluate the performance of playlists on Spotify so it can support songwriters who are eager to upload their music onto the streaming platform.
Automation Is Key To Network Security
In more ways than one, the key to the future is automation. The more we can have computers and some of the latest technology handle daily tasks, the more that frees us up for other pursuits. Some of these automation changes may be seismic in their impact, like with the self-driving car phenomenon. Much of the automation revolution, however, will likely take place behind the scenes, away from our view.
How to market your business creatively in three easy ways | Articles | Chief Strategy Officer
Traditional advertising is great. The typical ways that you most likely got your business in front of consumers are probably similar to how others have: direct mail campaigns, digital marketing and print media. If you have the cash to do all of that, congratulations. However, for most companies, the idea of expanding their marketing efforts is an idea fraught with financial risk that can sink their business if any of it doesn't generate substantial income.
AI has the potential to impact every aspect of business | Articles | Innovation
Technology is constantly evolving, in order for businesses to maintain relevance within the market, they need to stay up to date with emerging technological trends. They also need to have a certain level of adaptability, willingness to learn, and innovation.
Why Company Culture Is Critical For Efficient Employees | Articles | Chief Human Resources Officer
The company culture that you can establish and maintain for your employees is critical to them being efficient. We see many companies that try to focus on improving their culture, but a lot of attempts that they make seem to fall through. This is because they don’t understand the conditions that employees find to be problematic, and so their efforts seem to miss the mark.
How To Hire The Right Employee | Articles | Chief Strategy Officer
Every employer will admit that one of the challenges they have to face is hiring the best employees. The negative impacts of hiring the wrong employees can take a toll on the reputation of your company and its profits as well as the company's culture.
Security Boulevard
Small business owners who choose to discount the risks associated with a cyber attack or data breach could be making a very serious error. From social engineering to the vulnerabilities found within outdated software, identifying the biggest threats to their digital infrastructure is often the first step in ensuring that businesses and commercial organizations are able to take whatever steps are necessary in order to address the situation.
How To Unite Your Workforce During A Company-Wide Change | Articles | Chief Strategy Officer
It can be harder than you think to hold your company together during a massive organizational shift. Aside from the many other details that are likely on your mind, you also have to pay close and special attention to how your employees are feeling about the change. This is much harder than it sounds, especially if the organizational change is related to a merger or you are in a position where you have to restructure and lay off employees. Here's how to keep everything together.
The cloud develops alongside ingenuity: How cloud is essential to underpin new technologies
The Internet needed a means to maximise its potential – and the solution would need to be highly adaptable and accepting of a wide variety of technology. Cloud computing has evolved with the information age. The Allied Telecom Group describes cloud computing as an interconnected network of remote servers; specifically, Internet-host servers that process and manage information, as well as a place to store data. Cloud computing was initially seen as a backup solution for hard drives.
How Big Data Analytics Is Boosting Cybersecurity
To prevent such a threat, the system administrator should liaise with the human resource department to give every employee different login details depending on their level of complexity of their job description and responsibility to the business. Intrusion detection system Firewalls, multi-factor authentication and data encryption are common big data security measures today. One critical and more progressive precaution is the incorporation of an Intrusion Detection System (IDS).
How Big Data Analytics Is Boosting Cybersecurity
Information and business data are among the most valuable assets of any company. Entrepreneurs are increasingly cognizant of the importance of this data for their success in the current market economy. Knowing this, we need to understand how to protect this information. Big data analytics professionals are making use of
A guide: How to better manage your personal information
Today, information is being collected at a rapid pace. If you don't take the right steps to protect your information, you could suffer from a breach that would endanger your private banking and other personal information. Therefore, you need to manage it with the right tools and strategies. But this can seem overwhelming at first. Luckily, it doesn't have to be. If you use the advice below you can have peace of mind and be efficient while using your information in the best way possible.
5 Tips to Improve the Efficiency of Data Storage
IT experts usually work to make their applications get the resources needed to work efficiently. Back when hard disks were the main storage devices, backing up data used to involve techniques such as data striping across numerous hard disks; this process was inefficient and expensive. In the recent past, the use of affordable flash storage has shown the potential to change the course of issues in application performance.
The Top 5 Threats to Your Company’s Data
With every new technology you introduce in your company, new security threats emerge. Security threats can be time-consuming, tiresome and expensive to manage. But since they exist, you cannot afford to ignore them. Here are five security threats you should be aware of. Vulnerabilities are very common, especially when it comes to cloud security.
Data Security Tips and Pitfalls to Know About in 2018
Data Security Tips and Pitfalls to Know About in 2018 In 2017 we saw international corporations, public figures, and individuals alike become the victims of major data security breaches. Most prominently, perhaps, was the leaking of nearly 150 million American’s social security numbers by Equifax. There were also major breaches at Sony, Microsoft, UNC Health Care, and even the IRS.
The Last Year In Tech: 2017 Review
The past year was a unique period of technological growth and advancement. Technology impacts the lives of people in new ways, thanks to the internet, politics, and other market forces. Understanding what happened in 2017 and what that means for the year coming will be the key for making upcoming plans. Here is our technological year of 2017 in a nutshell: Bitcoin is an alt-currency that allows it users to transfer funds digitally without a bank or intermediary.
How Advanced Technology Helps Recover Stolen Vehicles - CTOvision.com
Walking out the door one morning to discover your car has been stolen can be a shocking experience. Car thefts, however, do occur with alarming frequency all over the world. Even owners with decent alarm systems find their vehicles targeted and successfully stolen. The positive news here comes in the form of current technology developments. Innovations in technology bring about the potential to recover stolen vehicles efficiently and quickly.
Ways through which Technology is Making Businesses More Efficient - SmartData Collective
Technology has had a positive impact on almost every aspect of human life. It has enabled us to do things faster, smarter and in a reduced amount of effort. We can now entertain ourselves by the touch of a button while the internet has transformed the world into a global village. We are able to interact with friends and family who live in different continents than us in real time and get immediate feedback through Skype and other social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.
How Far Away Are We from Inventing True A.I.?
The famous inventor and computer scientist Ray Kurzweil has made some very bold predictions about the pace at which human technology is advancing toward the ultimate threshold. That threshold is known as “The Singularity.” That epithet is a metaphor borrowed from physics terminology to express the point at which information technology—specifically artificial intelligence—becomes sufficiently advanced as to irreversibly alter the course of history on earth.
The Impact of Big Data to Marketing - SmartData Collective
Marketing is one of the most important variables in growing a business. Many small business owners struggle to design an effective marketing strategy for their company. The good news is that big data is opening up a lot of doors to improve marketing. Big data refers to the massive amount of data available to companies. With the right software, companies can use this data to make more informed decisions about marketing to their customers.
4 Fundamental Benefits of CRM Use - SmartData Collective
Thinking about using CRM software? While you may not realize it yet, customer relationship management software, or CRM software, can help to change the way you do business. Many types of CRM software solutions exist. However, each of them come with some amazing features that can help to automate many processes. In addition they can better analyze data and create stronger relationships with your customers. Below are some of the top ways CRM software can revolutionize the way you do business.
What Trends Are In Store For Data Storage? - SmartData Collective
Data storage trends become more encouraging year after year. Larger-scale companies discover storing and managing data becomes much easier to manage as new innovations and trends develop. Even those requiring data storage for personal, non-commercial purposes should look at the big changes in data storage. Unique trends emerge and do so on a continual basis. Technology is, after all, something that never ceases to evolve. What are some of these trends to be on the lookout for?
What Is the Future of Ad Blocking?
Whether you opened a spam email by accident or went to a website on the bad side of the internet, we’ve all had that experience once – though for most of us, it’s been several times. All it takes is a click, and suddenly myriad CPU-draining, eyeball-staining, Trojan-uploading pop-up ads flood you like a hail of cannon fire from English privateers seeking to capture you for violating one of the the Crown’s laws. Pop-up ads, and even more docile and reputable ads, are no one’s friend.
A Bright Future in the Computer Industry with Quantum Computers
A computer is more than a gadget for conducting an online chat or sending emails. This gadget contains programs for carrying out multiple tasks. A conventional computer might not be effective in the future because of the high amount of data existing in data banks. However, an introduction to quantum computing will benefit the data processing sector. A quantum computer uses qubits instead of bits like conventional computers. As a result, they can store zero or one particles (or both).
How wearable tech can help children with autism
Wearable tech has grown in leaps and bounds with new features added all the time to make everyday life easier and more fun. But this new technology isn’t just fun – for children with autism, it can be a game changer. Can a bracelet, glasses, and shoelaces ensure a child is safer and happier? GPS tracking is nothing new; we have it in our cars and our phones.
How Artificial Intelligence Can Improve Sales
Sales is tricky, even for humans. With all our creativity and intuition for how each other works, you’d think the art of marketing would be a task kept exclusively in human hands. However, recent development on the artificial intelligence (AI) front means that to experience success as a business, that’s just not the case. We’re talking about more AI developments than helpful Siri giving you the quick answer to win an argument or telling you about the weather.
Cloud Security Requires a Diverse Skill Set
The cloud is a daunting place, but it is also full of growth and potential. As cloud technology grows, businesses can see increased productivity, flexibility, and efficiency, but securing the data can be a difficult job. Cloud security has roots in traditional physical and cybersecurity, but it is also a different animal that requires unique understanding and experience.
Cal State Fullerton women's soccer reunites with past Titans
Cal State Fullerton women’s soccer was more excited than usual to take the field Saturday and go head-to-head with its past alumnae in an exhibition game. “It’s really inspiring to go out on the field and watch how they play,” said midfielder Hailey Pohevitz. Driven to prove to their alumnae that they too can contribute to the reputation they left behind, the Titans took home a 5-1 victory over the veterans.
The Cloud Wars May No Longer Focus On Price
The Cloud Wars May No Longer Focus On Price The cloud wars are an ongoing battle for supremacy of cloud services. The competition is fierce and intense, as can be assumed regarding what is a multi-billion dollar market. Cloud providers come in many varieties, but the most popular are names known to most people and businesses out there.
Mining big data with mobile apps and wearables
Does your workout routine and calorie intake impact your purchasing decisions? Under Armour and many other athletic and lifestyle brands are betting that it does. That’s why they recently invested heavily in a number of fitness apps, like Endomondo and MyFitnessPal. It’s just another example of how every company is adopting technical aspects in order stay relevant. Ultimately, Under Armour’s decision is a big data strategy.
Why the solution to ransomware may be predictive analytics
Ransomware is quickly becoming a problem for both businesses and personal computer users. It is also becoming more sophisticated; users may not even have to click or download something to become victim to this scam. Ransomware can spread between networked PCs and servers quite quickly, which leaves the owners of these machines at the mercy of hackers demanding money for access to the owner's’ most valuable files.
Why is Big Data security so difficult?
How to keep your stuff safe With data breaches hitting the news every other day, how can developers keep information secure? In this article, Rick Delgado explores how companies can improve their security practices and save everyone a whole lot of trouble in the meantime. More and more data is collected and stored today than ever before making big data a solution to just about every industry’s needs.
Artificial Intelligence Can Be Our Best Travel Guide - AI News on SDC
Travel has become a mainstay in American society. Whether traveling abroad or exploring the best places to live in California, today’s technology has become one of the more important companions for people on the go. Fortunately, technological advances have created computer systems that learn about their users needs, wants and desires quickly so they may provide the information needed with more accuracy than ever before. Those systems are termed artificial intelligence (AI).
Regulations are Failing to Keep Up with Healthcare Tech. That Needs to Change
Technology has advanced in the last few years so much that many companies are having a hard time keeping up. This falling behind in up-to-date technology is an issue when it comes to healthcare technology and the regulations established to keep patients safe. In the healthcare industry, tech can help with tasks such as ACLS recertification, patient admission rates, and faster test results.
Improved Decision Making Comes From Connecting Big Data Sources
Both small businesses and big businesses have much to gain from connecting big data sources. In case you don’t know what big data is, here is a simple definition: Big data is the gathering and collecting of large amounts of information with the goal of analyzing it to improve decision making in helping the business grow and achieve revenue goals. The rise of big data has made it easier for key players to access and share actionable information.
Why the solution to ransomware may be predictive analytics
Ransomware is quickly becoming a problem for both businesses and personal computer users. It is also becoming more sophisticated; users may not even have to click or download something to become victim to this scam. Ransomware can spread between networked PCs and servers quite quickly, which leaves the owners of these machines at the mercy of hackers demanding money for access to the owner's’ most valuable files.
Opinion: Why ‘robotics as a service’ is on its way
It feels like everything is a cloud service these days, and it turns out that includes robotics. Robotics as a Service (RaaS) is quickly growing into a multi-billion dollar industry. An International Data Corporation report said that in 2015, global robotics spending was at $71 billion. The report also stated that worldwide spending on robotics and related services are to hit $135.4 billion by 2019.
Tips for Moving Your Business Into the Digital Era
It’s time for companies to fully move into the digital era. How we promote and market our businesses is changing rapidly, and no matter how small your company the need to change can no longer be ignored. Business success is now dependent on the use of technology. However, many businesses struggle with making the transition into this new digital era, especially due to its daunting overhaul and the misunderstanding that going digital means adopting just one specific technology.
Why Java is the Language of Choice for the Internet of Things (IoT)
What has caused this Java revival and why is Java so useful in the Internet of Things? Better yet, what is the Internet of Things? The famed founder and former CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, was known for having strong feelings about the programming language, Java. According to him, within the programming realm, it was a dead language. Naturally, he worked to distance his tech products from Java.
Could Artificial Intelligence Save Small Security Teams?
Protecting company assets is becoming more and more difficult as the presence of malware continues to grow as well as the increasing activity of ill-meaning individuals who attack businesses. The increase of bad guys on the offense means companies with small security teams due to financial restraints are under greater stress. Fortunately, malware and hackers aren’t the only things on the rise. The development of artificial intelligence is also growing at a rapid rate.
Why the public cloud is outpacing the private cloud
Making the decision between the public cloud and the private is a tough one. However, adoption rates between the two vary dramatically. In this article, Rick Delgado explains why companies are making the choice to go with public cloud services. The cloud is rapidly growing as the number one choice for many. In recent months, it’s becoming clearer that keeping up with industries is impossible without the advantages the cloud offers.
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