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BIS Automotive predicted in a report that the global in-vehicle entertainment market will reach a total market value of $52.2Bn ($37.6Bn) by 2022. The report, Global In-Vehicle Infotainment Market, Analysis and Forecast 2017-2022, was announced in a BIS Research press release in May 2017 and claims that the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) will be 7.5% during this period.
James Manning Smith, a research analyst at Futurescope, explains this growth potential saying: “With autonomous driving technologies set to make the car the next living room, entertainment companies are exploring new technology and services to entertain passengers”.
“Once Level 4 or 5 autonomous driving technologies are perfected and accepted by consumers, key differentiators such as in-car choice will become the entertainment experience, over the driving experience. This provides an opportunity for audio and entertainment companies to innovate bringing more immersive entertainment technology to the car, whilst car manufacturers are challenged to stay competitive bringing the right entertainment technology to the cockpit.”
Published by TU Automotive magazine. Author: Graham Jarvis
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With new jargon, new bandwagons and hype, it’s a minefield for even the smallest organisation and the largest conglomerate to understand the technologies that exist on the market today
The misunderstanding of what’s available to particularly large international enterprises is leading to a disconnection between them and the innovations that exist on the market today.
There is so much pressure on CEOs to cut costs. This can be achieved because of the many innovative, low-cost technologies available, and yet CEOs choose to optimise rather than rip out the technologies they already possess.
To cut costs, there’s no need to outsource and many organisations are now choosing to insource because it offers them greater control over the IT and business operations. Companies, such as BA, should be leading the utilisation of the cloud. Yet there are claims that BA, while at the top of their game, don’t quite know what they are supposed to be doing.
Read the complete article about educating CEOs.
Published by Information Age on 19th March 2018. Byline: David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks. Client: Trudy Darwin Consulting.
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Hospitals are vulnerable to the same cyber threats as businesses and must take action to protect themselves.
According to BBC News, “WannaCry was the biggest cyber-attack that has affected the NHS to date: NHS trusts were left vulnerable in a major ransomware attack in May 2017 because cyber-security recommendations were not followed, a government report has said.”
The BBC report claims that a third of the NHS systems in England was disrupted by the WannaCry ransomware attack, according to the National Audit Office (NAO). This led to at least 6,900 NHS appointments being cancelled because of the attack. “NHS England reported that no patient data had been compromised or stolen and praised the staff response. The NAO chief said the Department of Health and the NHS must now get their act together”, the BBC stated.
You might be forgiven for thinking that ransomware was no longer an issue, but it still remains a cyber-security threat to most healthcare organisations around the globe – including NHS hospitals in the United Kingdom. However, new strains of ransomware are constantly emerging. This means that hospitals must think how they can prevent ransomware and malware attacks today. The battle to stop such incidents in their tracks is ongoing, taking up invaluable time and resources.
Find out how hospitals can protect themselves, read the complete article. Client: Trudy Darwin Consulting.
Published by IT Pro Portal on 29th March 2018. By-line: David Trossell.
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With the performance improvements over the past few years with Intel x86 processors, we have seen a rapid movement to software-defined storage, software-defined networks, software defined data centres, and software-defined everything else. Add to this the cloud factor, and this dramatically changed the way we now design, specify and buy and use computer platforms.
The flip side of this is we now have a myriad of choices. So it’s a huge and sometimes difficult question to ask about which one is the most suitable for your application, or even for your organisation to base their future strategy on.
The established large players can provide a menu of products to choose from to cover every aspect of computing and networks, but choosing between them requires skill sets to implement them. What’s great about cloud computing is that it is all there for you to run up in an instant. Then there is the man in the middle – converged systems (SD- everything) and the hyper-converged players, such as Nutanix.
Cloud: Easy choice
Cloud computing makes an easy choice for start-up companies. Yet one should be careful. There comes a point where the cloud will start to become more expensive than a cap ex model. Inevitably your computing, performance and storage requirements grow, and with that your costs will grow too. Let’s also remember that the utility operational expenditure model of cloud computing is much like making the choice between hiring a car and renting one.
Learn more, read the complete article.
Published by Data Centre News, March 2018. Features: David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks.
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Scott Jeschonek, Director of Cloud Solutions at Avere Systems, thinks that although oil and water don’t mix, legacy and cloud do. Despite the hype about moving applications to the cloud and about turning legacy applications into cloud natives, he finds that legacy systems are alive and well, and he believes they aren’t going anywhere anytime soon: “Though the cloud promises the cost savings and scalability that businesses are eager to adopt, many organizations are not yet ready to let go of existing applications that required massive investments and have become essential to their workflows.”
Complexity and Challenges
Jeschonek adds that rewriting mission-critical applications for the cloud is often inefficient: The process is lengthy and costly in financial terms. Unexpected issues can also arise from moving applications to the cloud, but they will vary from one firm to the next. At the top of the list is the challenge of latency. “Existing applications need fast data access, and with storage infrastructure growing in size and complexity, latency increases as the apps get farther away from the data. If there isn’t a total commitment to moving all data to the cloud, then latency is a guarantee,” he writes.He mentions other challenges in his DatacenterDynamics article “Unlike Oil and Water, Legacy and Cloud Can Mix Well,” including mismatched protocols and the amount of time required to rewrite software applications to conform to cloud standards. With regard to mismatched protocols he says legacy applications typically employ standard protocols such as NFS and SMB for network-attached storage (NAS). They’re “incompatible with object storage, the architecture most commonly used in the cloud.” To many, this fact makes moving to the cloud a daunting prospect, but it needn’t be.
Find out more, read the complete article. By-lined to David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks. Client: Trudy Darwin Consulting.
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The performance of telecom/IT systems and increasing reliance on data means that inadequacies within a network can lead to expensive business costs. This article examines the Citrix-sponsored research by Tech Research Asia and discusses how these expenses can be minimized. It highlights that poor network connectivity is costing Australian companies an average of 71 hours of lost productivity per employee, per year. Estimating that a company with 50 employees would have a total cost per year equating to $144,563.
Firms in New Zealand fared only slightly better with an average productivity loss of $NZ66,399 per year for the same sized enterprise. The study found that 23% of outages affected Australian companies’ revenue source, and in New Zealand, 47% of the companies surveyed said that network issues impacted only 14% of their revenue streams.
There are other locations in the world where the situation is far worse. In certain areas, network size is limited, latency is a big problem, and packet loss is huge. Often bandwidth is still extremely expensive and therefore it is a precious commodity. Therefore, companies need to be able to utilize the bandwidth they do have to the optimum.
Put your finger network inadequacies today to accelerate your data.
Published by ISE Magazine on 1st March 2018. By-lined to Jamie Eykun, Chairman of Bridgeworks.
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While the British government, among other across the globe, is putting its faith in an autonomous vehicle future, consumers are maintaining a certain degree of opposition to this technology. Southampton University reported in September 2017 that it had joined forces with comprethemarket.com to future-gaze, and they found that 73% of Brits oppose driverless cars because they believe they could malfunction.
A further 72% of the respondents claimed that they couldn’t trust a computer with car safety (and that’s even though many people fly on holiday in fly-by-wire aircraft that use information technology for this purpose). Subsequently, 68% of them want to have full control of their vehicles despite the industry-proclaimed improvements in safety of autonomous driving…
Read the complete article here to learn more…
Published by TU Automotive Magazine on 2nd March 2018. Author: Graham Jarvis.
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Electroneum CEO Richard Ells talks with Financial Journalist Graham Jarvis .
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A gambling and gaming company has achieved 75% in cost-savings with Amazon Web Services (AWS). The return on investment (ROI) it has achieved is incredible and, more importantly, it can be replicated by banks and other financial services organisations at a time when the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are just around the corner – coming into force on May 2018.
So, now is a good time for banks to think audit their back-up and storage to achieve both cost-savings and regulatory compliance.
The other key challenges include:
- data locality;
- bandwidth and data change rate that needs replication to a remote site hosting the cloud;
privacy
The gambling and gaming company is keeping some of its data on-site and some of it resides in the cloud. To improve the speed at which it can back up and restore its data, the firm has used a data acceleration to reduce the time it takes to back up its data. The less time it takes to back up data, the more it can save financially – and that’s despite growing data volumes. The larger the data volume, the more challenging companies, including banks, find it to move data to and from the cloud.
Find out how to increase the speed of your WAN with data acceleration here.
Published on 19th February 2018 by Banking Technology and Fintech Futures. Author: Graham Jarvis.
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