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Robotic process automation, acronymed RPA, has been one of the hottest areas of tech in the last two years, based on venture investment and enterprise adoption. In 2018 alone, three companies raised more than $1 billion: Automation Anywhere ($550 million), UiPath ($378 million) and BluePrism ($130 million). Additionally, it was recently reported that UiPath plans […]

As the app economy grows, there’s a sense of urgency to create business value and drive mobility and agility. These digital opportunities to deliver value are massive, urging enterprises to develop applications with greater momentum. Technology is the primary enabler in enterprise-wide modernization, and the demand for developers to support this transformation is huge–and this […]

While negative headlines around facial recognition tend to dominate the media landscape, positive impacts of facial recognition technology are being created on a daily basis — despite these stories often being overshadowed by the negative noise. It is the mission of industry leaders in computer vision, biometric and facial recognition technologies to help the public […]

Not too long ago, most work was done inside offices. Today, however, most work is conducted remotely—at least a high percentage of the time. We connect from airports, coffee shops, hotels and trains. A significant number of workers work remotely most of the time—as employees or contractors—from home and shared offices such as WeWork. This […]

Key IT trends that include the migration to 5G, the emergence of IoT and smart cities and new routing and management architectures are changing the volume and nature of traffic on networks. Service providers now face the daunting task of building and operating cost-effective networks that can scale to the demands of hyper-connected consumers and […]

Enterprise IT is quickly becoming a data-centric and widely distributed environment that includes the soon-to-be tens of billions of connected, intelligent devices. This will make up the internet of things (IoT) and generate petabytes of data, multiple public and hybrid clouds and modern applications using such technologies as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, big data […]

Here is the latest article in an eWEEK feature series called IT Science, in which we look at what actually happens at the intersection of new-gen IT and legacy systems. Unless it’s brand new and right off various assembly lines, servers, storage and networking inside every IT system can be considered “legacy.” This is because the […]

Here is the latest article in an eWEEK feature series called IT Science, in which we look at what actually happens at the intersection of new-gen IT and legacy systems. Unless it’s brand new and right off various assembly lines, servers, storage and networking inside every IT system can be considered “legacy.” This is because the […]

From natural forces to cyber events to blackouts caused by worn infrastructure, disasters can cause business disruptions, work stoppage, a battered brand image and, worst of all, data loss. Loss of critical business and customer information can damage giant corporations; for small enterprises—which often lack the personnel and budget to protect against risk—the stakes are […]

The public cloud has certainly been a great enabler for business, but it has also created a number of blind spots and brought with it serious security challenges. The collection of cloud services and applications has continues to increase exponentially, making access logic, permission sets, resources, capabilities and risks much more difficult to manage. Authorization […]

This month in 2019 marks the 60th anniversary of COBOL. That’s right: In a world in which something can be outdated almost as fast as it moves off the shelf, COBOL (common business-oriented language), a code technology that predates Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Java and Linux, is 60 years old. COBOL is a high-level programming language […]

Here is the latest article in an eWEEK feature series called IT Science, in which we look at what actually happens at the intersection of new-gen IT and legacy systems. Unless it’s brand new and right off various assembly lines, servers, storage and networking inside every IT system can be considered “legacy.” This is because the […]