Yesterday, Apple hit a major valuation milestone becoming the first $1 trillion public company. Many Wall Street analysts and market pundits are calling it an important milestone. Well, apparently Tim Cook doesn’t think so. But it is a time to reflect on how the investor community and Wall Street have gotten Apple wrong consistently for quite some time. And they continue to get Apple wrong as they continue to characterize Apple as an iPhone company or a consumer product company, or a hardware company.
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Want to Get Value Out of IoT? Stop Talking About IoT
Do you scratch your head when someone asks you if you have an “IoT strategy”? I do, and I find myself inevitably asking what one means by “IoT strategy”. Why is the Internet of Things (a.k.a. “IoT”) such a confusing thing for many of us? According to a 2016 Gartner study, 43 percent of enterprises… Continue reading Want to Get Value Out of IoT? Stop Talking About IoT
The Hybrid Cloud Bill of Rights
The cloud landscape continues to change and evolve. Our current assumptions about cloud and how it will influence IT and our IT investments will need to evolve as well. When you consider the fluidity of the cloud vendor landscape, it is important to consider price/performance market intelligence to make the best decisions for your cloud strategy – your hybrid cloud strategy.
The Future of Cloud: The Cloud Continuum
Cloud of yesterday is not Cloud as we know it today. The computing model continues to evolve and virtualized enterprise data centers converge with public cloud service in creating the emerging frontier of hybrid computing. Where is cloud computing going and what is next?
Meltdown & Spectre – Part 3: Tackling The Great Digital Risk of Our Time
Meltdown and Spectre represent a new class of security threat that endangers our digital world at its core – the processor. What do enterprises need to do to protect their digital businesses and their customers from Meltdown and Spectre exploits in a Privacy First world with GDPR enforced?
Meltdown & Spectre – Part 2: The Internet of Security Risk
Meltdown and Spectre represent a new class of security threat that endangers our digital world at its core – the processor. What aspects of our digital lives, work, society and economy will be impacted by Meltdown and Spectre?
Meltdown & Spectre – Part 1: The Threat We Don’t Want to Talk About
Meltdown and Spectre represent a new class of security threat that endangers our digital world at its core – the processor. With the unveiling of such profound security holes, what do business leaders need to do to understand the potential impact of Meltdown and Spectre on their organizations and businesses?
CES 2018: Key Takeaways
neXt Curve attended the largest consumer electronics trade show on the planet with over 180,000 in attendance to identify the deeper technology and market trends that are underlying the rapid evolution of our digital lives and are expressed in the new digitally-enabled consumer applications from smart homes, virtually reality to connected vehicles.
World Internet Conference 2017: Key Takeaways
China’s journey toward becoming a digital economy is well underway. Internet Plus is the vision and the framework that is guiding the digitization of China’s economy and the development of the next generation of digital businesses and industry models. The epicenter of China’s digital industrial revolution – Wuzhen.
IoT Solutions World Congress 2017: Key Takeaways
IoT is still a widely confused topic for most businesses though the conversation has evolved a bit beyond sensors, connectivity and data. We are starting to see practical business applications emerge from the world of Industrial IoT, which will likely provide the blueprint, platforms and solution patterns for consumer-facing IoT applications as well as Smart City, Smart Grid and Smart Transportation.