Pedro Hernandez

The theme of the Infosys Confluence 2017 event, taking place this week in San Francisco, is “Unlimit,” which executives at the IT services and consulting firm acknowledge is technically not a word, at least not one that can be found in a dictionary or be used to score points in Scrabble. The made-up term represents […]

Samsung and Apple, watch out. Gartner’s latest global smartphone market data is out, and the figures indicate that Chinese smartphone manufacturers are making major gains at the expense of market leaders Samsung and Apple. All told, the world’s smartphone makers shipped 380 million units in the first quarter (Q1) of 2017, a nine percent year-over-year […]

Thinking of nimble and innovative organizations, local governments rarely come to mind. Darren Koch, chief product officer of the SMB Team at SAP, and his group at the German business software giant, are looking to change that. Sure, “the complexity of government agencies is really high,” he said, but that shouldn’t keep the IT industry […]

The Internet of Things (IoT) is not only paving the way for intelligent enterprises and smart cities, it’s affecting the cost of delivering healthcare. Accenture recently released the results of its Internet of Health Things Survey of 77 healthcare providers and an equal number of healthcare payers (generally health insurance companies), conducted by McGuire Research. […]

A new study from Randstad Sourceright, a talent acquisition and human capital management specialist, reveals that companies are flocking to artificial intelligence (AI) solutions and robotics, but not necessarily as a means to replace workers. The company recently ran a global survey of C-suite executives and human capital leaders to determine how AI and robotics […]

Nowadays, chief information officers (CIOs) are charged with more than keeping their organization’s IT operations up and running, according to a new study from IT staffing specialist Robert Half Technology. In a survey of 2,500 CIOs in the U.S., the firm discovered that 35 percent of CIOs now consider their roles as chiefly functional, down […]

Digital transformation involves much more than adopting cloud services, delving into business analytics, and making mobility a priority. Without embracing automation to help manage increasingly complex IT environments, those efforts will not only fail but also lead some unfortunate companies to extinction, suggests a study from business software and services provider BMC. A majority (73 […]

It took some time to gain momentum but the semiconductor market wound up bouncing back in 2016. Chipmakers generated $343.5 billion in sales last year, a 2.6 percent improvement over 2015 ($334.9 billion), according to Gartner. “The semiconductor industry rebounded in 2016, with a weak start to the year, characterized by inventory correction, giving way […]

Demand for smart devices in manufacturing plants and other work sites will lift industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions market to $933.62 billion, said Grand View Research in a new report. Until then, the analyst firm expects the market to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 28 percent. Enterprises are turning […]

Here’s another reason not to get complacent with one’s career. Gartner today predicted that by 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) systems and the smart devices they power may take the place of highly trained professionals. “The economics of AI and machine learning will lead to many tasks performed by professionals today becoming low-cost utilities,” remarked Gartner […]