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Apple's HomeKit Will Bring Smart Device Tech to Your Home At the 2014 Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Apple made several announcements, including the company's move into the smart home industry. Apple's smart home platform, which is being called HomeKit, will aim to be a centralized way to run your home. |
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Can MIT's RoboWall Make a Small House or Apartment Seem Bigger? The MIT Media Lab’s Changing Places research group created a prototype of “The CityHome,” an ultra-efficient, responsive small home/apartment that is only 840 square feet and has hardware and software that lets you customize your living space to function like an area two or three times larger. |
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Enterprise OpenStack Deployments—Why Hide? With more than 4,700 attendees, double the number at the Hong Kong Summit a mere six months ago, the May 2014 OpenStack Summit in Atlanta was by all measures a resounding success. So why are so many enterprises reluctant to go on record about their OpenStack implementations? |
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Major US Retailers Set Up Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center In hopes of minimizing the risk and financial fallout from another disastrous cyber attack, some of the top retailers along with the Retail Industry Leaders Association have announced they are launching a clearinghouse: the Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center (R-CISC). |
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Cloud Orchestration—Are We Finally Singing the Same Tune? Are you holding back on moving applications to the cloud because of a diverse portfolio of installed systems? Beth Cohen examines whether cloud orchestration tools can be used to improve the management of IT application portfolios as they migrate on to public, private, and hybrid cloud platforms. |
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Should You Consider a Private Cloud? The days of traditional data centers are numbered, but it's important to know that there are more options out there than just throwing all your information up on the cloud using Google Drive. If you haven't already looked into using a private cloud platform, today might be the day to do so. |
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Big Data Makes Big Impact on Retailer Location Freedom from the commitment of a lease or rental agreement gives virtual stores the advantage of flexibility with future decisions while using big data to maximize their revenue streams. Now, big data can help level the playing field when it comes to the perceived disadvantage of rental space. |
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Data Leaks—Will Secure Programming Save the Day? 2014 is already shaping up to be another horrible year for compromised data. With all the widely publicized large-scale data leaks, there has to be a better way to secure sensitive data and applications. Secure programming, combined with more sophisticated network separation, might be the answer. |