Steven Umbehocker, CEO/CTO, OSNEXUS Corporation, comments regarding metro clusters, “Recovery time objectives are critical to most organisations, so that’s imperative to allow enough performance to keep up with the data ingest rate at a primary site. The other key thing with metro clusters is that they are an increasingly in-demand architecture, where the storage is distributed across multiple sites to achieve zero downtime. That’s only possible when the latency is low enough to provide sufficient and adequate performance for the workloads. PORTrockIT solves these latency issues so that metro clusters can be deployed across a much larger geographic area.” Continue reading

Jack Palmer, senior consultant with European Mobility & Transportation Team, Frost & Sullivan, joined the conversation and says there has been much talked about the software-defined car for the past three to four years. Gaming has been particularly trendy, certainly at the annual gathering at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. He elaborates: “This feeds into the idea that the vehicle is the living room on wheels. There may be cases for streaming when an [electric or hybrid] car is charging but you can’t do this in the front seat until the vehicle has stopped. So, it’s a rear seat entertainment play.” Continue reading

The ABI would like to see more robust regulation and clearer guidance on the use of “remote driving technologies for automated vehicles for use in specific and limited operational design domains”. It believes it’s an imperative, let alone a prerequisite, for the regulations to be developed. It also wants the “responsibilities of the Entity for Remote Driving Operation to be more specifically defined to prevent the misuse of these technologies”. Among other factors, the ABI says insurers have serious concerns about the use of remote driving technologies to operate manually driven vehicles including issues related to connectivity, situational awareness and vehicle capabilities. Continue reading

Bruno Taratufolo, marketing and product strategy at AGC Glass Europe - “The smart transport system should prioritize sustainability, and the needs of pedestrians and cyclists by making cities more accessible and safer for non-motorized forms of transportation. There is also the carbon footprint, which will also come into the game, which smart transport should reduce but I am not sure AVs will represent the lowest carbon footprint, even though there will be electric vehicles. The smart city should go beyond AVs and consider a variety of factors to have a truly integrated and sustainable transportation system.” Continue reading

For a number of years, the discussion has been about digital transformation, increasing automation, SD-WANs, data protection, security, and every type of cloud. In 2023, these are still likely to play an important role in organisations and in data centres and now multi-cloud and hybrid cloud are driving changes in data centre networks. This is to better manage new security rollouts, introduce new levels of automation and to also help push forward evolving net-ops strategies. Continue reading

Loving data is about protecting it, no matter what. However, it’s also about having the ability to restore data quickly whenever it is needed. The trouble is, the further away organizations are from their data centers, the more they can face the imps of latency and packet loss. Although a good technology, not even SD-WANs can resolve this issue sufficiently without having a WAN Acceleration overlay. Continue reading

With a growing data influx from connected and autonomous vehicles, automakers their partners and third-party organisations are looking to develop connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) as a key platform for evolving the digital economy. They will use artificial intelligence and machine learning, as well as cloud platforms, to offer new services from the value data emanating from each vehicle. The key consideration is about how to extract enhanced value for the data, and to understand the impact of siloed development approaches to the software-defined vehicle, as well as the need for standards across in-car media systems. There is also a need to comprehend how aggregators, content providers and operating systems (OS) suppliers can work with automakers to monetize the vehicle through new consumer experiences. Continue reading

An AAAtraq Report claims that 96% of American Colleges are denying equal access to disabled people. The company finds that US higher education websites fail on the basics. That’s despite efforts and increasing spend on attempts to make websites more inclusive. Continue reading

With Wide Area Network traffic expected to increase, despite the financial and economic challenges that most enterprises, people, and markets are facing, data center engineer Aelfraedis advised Santa to consider implementing a WAN Acceleration overlay onto his SD-WANs. This is because Santa Inc. needs to maximize bandwidth utilization, while mitigating the effects of latency and packet loss. In the past, the option would have been WAN optimization. While it’s a great piece of technology, it’s not right for Santa’s sack, as it has some inherent shortcomings. Those shortcomings include an inability to meet performance expectations, and WAN optimization can’t handle sensitive, encrypted data. SD-WANs go some way to address these issues. However, even their performance is boosted with WAN Acceleration – a technology that is data-agnostic, and it can handle encrypted data. Furthermore, while SD-WAN adoption is buoyant, the global provider of managed network and security services, GTT, finds that enterprises are either missing out on an integrated approach to security, or they don’t have any security at all. Continue reading

Over the years, automotive vehicles have become increasingly connected, and so connectivity will increasingly underpin the future of the industry. At least that’s the view that was discussed by Steve Bell, chief analyst – connectivity, Informa Tech Automotive Group at September’s WardsAuto Intelligence Outlook Conference at The Townsend Hotel, Birmingham, Michigan. It also suggests that there is an evolution in vehicle architecture, and a transition to software-defined vehicles that will depend on connectivity to ensure they are up-to-data and cyber-secure. The executive summary of his presentation adds: “The rapid evolution of BEVs means the traditional vehicle business model of profit on initial sales is being replaced by lifetime earnings that rely on over-the-air (OTA) upgrades to enhance the vehicle value to consumers.” Continue reading

Bridgeworks CEO David Trossell said the company was "proud" to support the awards and "to recognise student talent in these fields". Continue reading

Over the years automotive vehicles have become increasingly connected, and so connectivity will increasingly underpin the future of the industry. At least that’s the view that was discussed by Steve Bell, chief analyst – connectivity, Informa Tech Automotive Group at September’s WardsAuto Intelligence Outlook Conference at The Townsend Hotel, Birmingham, Michigan. It also suggests that there is an evolution in vehicle architecture, and a transition to software-defined vehicles that will depend on connectivity to ensure they are up-to-data and cyber-secure. The executive summary of his presentation adds: “The rapid evolution of BEVs means the traditional vehicle business model of profit on initial sales is being replaced by lifetime earnings that rely on over-the-air (OTA) upgrades to enhance the vehicle value to consumers.” Continue reading

At AutoTech Europe, TU-Automotive took a step back to look back at last year’s conference in which it was claimed that 5G C-V2X is paving the way for fully autonomous vehicles. Key to the discussion is whether 5G as well as 5G C-V2X are sufficient for creating a fully autonomous vehicle future. Niels Peter Skov Andersen, chair of ETSI Intelligent Transport Systems Technical Committee of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), begins by saying V2X and C-V2X are basically the same things. ‘C-V2X’ is a term used by the telecommunications companies. Continue reading

Data is very much behind the success of Black Friday – particularly for e-commerce operations. So it’s no surprise that new research from Oxylabs, in collaboration with CensusWide, reveals that 85% of ecommerce organisations have chosen to make more significant use of data to attract customers. In response to their survey of over 1,000 UK and US-based senior decision makers, including CTOs, VPs of Engineering, Chief Data Officers, Heads of Business Intelligence and Heads of Data & Analytics, they comment that this “…highlights how businesses are using newer, more advanced forms of technology, such as web scraping, to get ahead of the competition.” Continue reading

The witches have used WAN Optimization in the past, but they have found that it doesn’t live up to their expectations. Halloween is here again, and the witches are hard at work. Yet, their Wide Area Networks are suffering from jitter and packet loss caused by the specter of latency. It’s more trick than treat – even when working remotely, operations are hindered by slow WANs. Backing up and restoring data takes ages to complete, making disaster recovery and service continuity hard to achieve. Continue reading

The automotive market is very close to adopting the MIPI A-PHY standard for CSI-2 and the DSI-2 standard for connectivity. Daniel Shwartzberg, director of automotive system solutions at Valens hopes that is will become the connectivity solution of choice. He believes it will offer the automotive industry a standardized SerDes solution for high bandwidth, ultra-low latency, including EMI-EMC robust data links for video. He explains: “Until this point OEMs and automotive suppliers (Tier 1s) have had to use proprietary, single source solutions for extending video within the vehicle but the A-PHY standard will enable an ecosystem of vendors supplying multiple interoperable products into the market.” Continue reading

Many people hold the perception that electric vehicles are greener and, in some respects, cheaper to run than their internal combustion engine diesel and gasoline counterparts. However, the reality is far more complex than many would imagine. To gain a more accurate picture, it’s important to consider the complete lifecycle of each vehicle – from the sourcing of the materials to manufacture them and their batteries, fuels, or energy sources to their environmental and social governance impact from start to end of life. This includes how the materials used in them are recycled and reused. Continue reading

There are a range of factors that will be crucial for connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs). Among them is 5G connectivity, automation and electrification. They are converging to transform the automotive industry – enabling and enhancing, for example, the connected car. An introduction to a TU-Automotive webinar, which was held in February 2022, and which was sponsored by Infovista went on to add: “From self-driving prototypes on private networks in mines and ports to connected mobility applications that enhance user experiences and enable new business models, the value potential is enormous. Wireless connectivity, however, has gaps and performance variability that, if not well managed, can impact application performance and reliability.” Continue reading

With connected and autonomous vehicles set to change the insurance liability paradigm away from human drivers, this article examines whether insurers and automakers are really ready for a driverless future. That’s the question posed by Ulrike Deetjen, partner and co-leader... Continue reading

The effects of the pandemic over the past couple of years has hastened the move towards digital transformation of many companies – and to the cloud in many cases. Organisations concerned for the safety of their personnel and what shape organisations will look like in the future, moved from a traditional capital expenditure (CapEx) model, to a work-from-home and operational expenditure- (OpEx) based SAAS model. At the same time, there is a push for Internet of Things (IoT) devices to monitor and manage many aspects of our daily lives. Continue reading

With data volumes increasing, healthcare organisations are having to handle, move and back-up growing amounts of data. Even though there is a shift to mobile networks, SD-WANs and to edge computing, there is still a need to find ways to... Continue reading

Caroline Bergmann, spokesperson for Deutsche Telekom, comments: “Until there is seamless connectivity, a number of challenges still need to be overcome. This refers to legal, organizational and also technical aspects. For cross-border connectivity, all EU telecoms companies need to work together.” With connected and autonomous vehicles set to change the insurance liability paradigm away from human drivers, this article examines whether insurers and automakers are really ready for a driverless future. Continue reading

Quite often and in many industries, such as financial services, there is call for the reduction of regulation and the liberalization of market. In the case of connected and autonomous vehicles the opposite is true, and it has to be so. The key issue is the lack of regulatory harmonization across borders, making the development of what Magnus Gunnarsson, head of connected vehicle at Ericsson, calls ‘global cars’ much trickier to achieve. He points out that the automotive industry is global. Vehicles may be engineered in one country and then manufactured in another part of the world before being shipped and sold in a third nation. “With the increase of local data protection regulations, the environment is getting somewhat more complicated and we are, therefore, designing our technology in a way that can combine the automaker’s need for global service roll-outs with the regulatory needs for local data management,” he says. Continue reading

With safety being paramount, and with the threat that hackers could take over a connected and autonomous vehicle, there is increasingly a need to ensure that smart car data leakages. Cassandra Moons, data protection officer at TomTom explains why CAVs are a ticking data privacy timebomb by first of all suggesting that connectivity in cars has evolved in ways that reflect how people live their lives today. So, not long ago the idea of always being connected was just a prediction of the future but nowadays being “always-on” is an increasing reality for many people. It’s becoming the norm. Continue reading

While there are many significant trends at the moment, one of the key connected vehicle commerce trends to stand out is the monetization of vehicle data by automakers. Sherry Calkins, vice-president of connected car and platform solutions at Geotab also sees a shift from vehicle ownership to share mobility and electrification. Citing McKinsey’s report Unlocking the full life-cycle value from connected-car data, she says the connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) data monetization trends could add between $250Bn to $400Bn in annual incremental value. She adds: “Connectivity is an opportunity that OEMs cannot afford to ignore or be slow to endorse. For OEMs to capitalize on the opportunity, they must consider evolving their business models to support the connected-car ecosystem.” Find out why automakers are in the driving seat, read the complete article. Continue reading