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In almost equal measure, the year 2019 promises to be a challenging and positive one for the IT industry. The tech landscape in particular will be dominated by conversations around edge computing, artificial intelligence (AI) and the holy grail, work/life balance. Edge Computing Becomes Reality  2019 promises to be the year that edge computing becomes a reality in day-to-day business operations. As a concept, edge development and definitions have been discussed and analyzed in depth for years. Now we’re at the point where edge computing is entering production and becoming “live.” For enterprise users and consumers, edge data centers will be visible through the services they provide. Edge infrastructure investments will also significantly accelerate in 2019. According to Global Market Insights, the  edge data center market is projected to hit USD 13 billion by 2024. Capital is already deployed in edge data center infrastructure across almost every sector such as retai...

EFF and MuckRock Release Records and Data from 200 Law Enforcement Agencies’ Automated License Plate Reader Programs EFF and MuckRock have filed hundreds of public records requests with law enforcement agencies around the country to reveal how data collected from automated license plate readers (ALPR) is used to track the travel patterns of drivers. We focused exclusively on departments that contract with surveillance vendor Vigilant Solutions to share data between their ALPR systems. Today we are releasing records obtained from 200 agencies, accounting for more than 2.5-billion license plate scans in 2016 and 2017. This data is collected regardless of whether the vehicle or its owner or driver are suspected of being involved in a crime. In fact, the information shows that 99.5% of the license plates scanned were not under suspicion at the time the vehicles’ plates were collected. On average, agencies are sharing data with a minimum of 160 other agencies through Vigilant Solution...

The era of digital transformation is not only upon us, it is already in full swing, accelerating at a blistering pace and reimagining every aspect of our lives. Connectivity, predictability, simplicity, and, therefore, speed and agility, are the digital building blocks critical to future success for all businesses. A successful and profitable business manages its expenses and revenue and, as digitization sweeps the world, puts IT and OT convergence, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and collaboration solutions to work to gain better visibility into expenses and better manage revenue priorities. Profitability can be managed much more closely and more widely across a business than ever before – taking into consideration ALL the inputs that make your company profitable. Finding the sweet spot between the orders in your pipeline and what you will have to spend to produce those orders profitably can be made much easier by digitally managing the planning and order inputs, resourc...