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Supply chain traceability is as important as ever

The digital supply chain market is being disrupted rapidly. On November 14, 2022, Microsoft introduced its Supply Chain Platform enabling organizations such as Daimler to improve product traceability. Two weeks later, Amazon announced AWS Supply Chain as a response to [...]

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Addressing limited resources

In 2021, Kubernetes adoption increased by 67%. According to a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) report, edge computing was one of the main drivers behind Kubernetes usage. While adoption among back-end developers grew by 4%, it rose by 11% among edge developers.

The CNCF forecasts an annual rise of [...]

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The state of Kubernetes security

Containerization has significantly changed the software life cycle as containers provide portability, agility, scalability, and the ability to use a microservices architecture. However, containers, being distributed, make it harder to identify security risks, such as vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. Organizations will typically deploy an increasing amount of [...]

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Increasing power consumption is a problem

Over the past few years, edge computing, which places computation and data storage closer to the devices where it is being gathered, has become more prevalent due to the widespread adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT). Edge computing using 5G networks may reduce communication [...]

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Too much car data

As automobile manufacturers embrace the Industry 4.0 trend, newly produced vehicles are being equipped with an increasing amount of sensors. These devices then collect all sorts of data—such as location, mileage, or the health and status of individual car components.

According to McKinsey, a connected car generates around [...]

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Challenges in developing blockchain projects

When enterprises start adopting blockchain, typically, there arise problems from understanding blockchain itself to building an application. While blockchains can be associated with DApps, smart contracts, consensus mechanisms, ledgers, tokens, and shared business processes, not all blockchain applications require all of these things.

Once an enterprise figures [...]

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Whither Predix—is it history for GE?

Well, Prince, so Predix and APM are just portfolio assets of GE.

The opening line of Tolstoy’s War and Peace will seem an appropriate allusion to those of us who have put significant stock in the potential of Predix and its siblings to transform the industry [...]

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Preventive maintenance to minimize repairs

Annually, NYC office workers waste 16.6 years waiting for elevators. Additional 5.9 years are spent stuck in an elevator shaft. While buildings are getting higher, the problem escalates. It is also accompanied by other issues, such as increased energy consumption, especially during peak hours.

These problems are [...]

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Addressing the issues in IoT

The number of devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) is growing at an exponential rate, reported to have reached more than 8 billion in 2017. Moreover, the figure is expected to increase up to 20 billion by 2020. The implications are already evident [...]

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