Log4j – Pandemic of the Year?
IBM, Oracle, Google and Amazon may have been exposed to one of the most serious cybersecurity threats ever seen. Here’s how: In fact, Check Point Research regards this as a truly global ‘cyber pandemic’, with over 90 countries in the world already affected by the attacks. As commented in an excerpt from the report: “..the impact itself is […]
Building a Blockchain: Part I: On the Handling of Digital Assets
Digital assets have radically reshaped the face of traditional accounting over the past few years. Additionally, given the recent boom in the global volume of digital assets, creating a systematic approach in the efficient storage, organisation, management and distribution of an organisation’s digital assets is unequivocally crucial. In fact, according to a July 21 report […]
COP26: Yet another carbon copy?
Although the Glasgow Summit on Climate Change held much promise, in the end it looks like hot air. And the climate suffers The much-debated 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference – commonly referred to as COP26 – that had started with high hopes, was recently concluded without much to celebrate. Held at Glasgow, Scotland, it […]
2022 HR Trends – Priorities and Challenges
Companies that adjust the fastest will thrive the most post-pandemic. Global HR survey stresses on building critical skills and competencies. Very recently, Gartner surveyed over 500 HR leaders across all business sectors in 60 countries to analyze the trends, priorities and expected challenges for the coming year. While the list churned out ‘building critical skills […]
Big Data Analytics – Emerging Trends
For business organisations, Big Data Analytics is proving to be a game changer and its scope is ever-expanding. Here’s looking at the emerging trends for 2022 Big Data goes much beyond data crunching. Put simply, it is what its name implies – body of data that is huge in volume. Usually, this is the data […]
Retailing in the Metaverse
The digital will turn physical in the Metaverse – unleashing a whole new future for immersive retail The emerging “Metaverse”, that promises to take us to a new universe where the physical and digital converge, could actually have a more of a physical start for Facebook – instead of virtual. Think deeply! It is only […]
Machine Learning: It’s Importance in today’s world
Machine learning enables software applications to improve their prediction accuracy by using historical data as input. Machine learning is part of artificial intelligence that focuses on leveraging data and algorithms to mimic how humans learn. Machine learning is one of the most intriguing technologies that the world has ever encountered. What role does machine learning […]
IT Companies: The Talent Rush
War for talent in new-age technologies will intensify in 2022 for IT companies Information technology (IT) service companies, both home-grown and global MNCs, are facing double-digit attrition throughout 2021, will continue to witness intensified war for talent in 2022, according to analysts. Return to Office, upskilling, and new companies hunting for talent from the same […]
A Decade of AI :Part 2
If one technology had impacted the maximum number of domains in the last 10 years –it was AI. We continue with our whirlwind tour of the captivating timeline of AI innovations In our previous episode, we saw how routine data crunching gradually evolved into Data Science, and how Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) […]
Cybersecurity: What might be the threats to the world in 2022?
Cybersecurity threats today are more rampant than ever before. And the scale has escalated to heights they’ve never reached before. Last week, the New York Times reported the following on the current cyberwar attacks between Israel and Iran: “Iranians couldn’t buy gas. Israelis found their intimate dating details posted online. The Iran-Israel shadow war is […]