UK ready for driverless cars in theory

The Modern Transport Bill confirms actions that are being taken to make sure the UK is at the forefront of the most modern transport revolution. The economic potential of the new technology drives the UK to adopt a new legal system and draw up laws to provide a strong support for autonomous car development and… Read more UK ready for driverless cars in theory

Leveraging Centralized Data to Benefit Residents

California’s Deputy CIO, Chris Cruz, provided an illuminating account of the State of California’s efforts to modernize its IT systems and attract innovators to the public sector. One area that he discussed was the state’s efforts to reduce unnecessary waste (ex. eliminating separate servers for each state board, commission, or department by centralizing data storage… Read more Leveraging Centralized Data to Benefit Residents

Why Banks are Being Slow to Invest in Cloud Computing

We are in the midst of a new technological revolution, but its progress is being halted by outdated data protection laws, and the reluctance of governments to adapt in light of these new opportunities. Cloud computing poses massive benefits across the board – to businesses, governments and individuals. Benefits include greater flexibility, disaster recovery, automatic… Read more Why Banks are Being Slow to Invest in Cloud Computing

Blockchain Scalability

During his presentation Dr. Jeff Welser commented on current innovation and potential impact of an exciting new technology, blockchain. In addition to a brief explanation and some example use cases (escrow, audits, general transaction processing) he conveyed that he recognizes that blockchain has a scaling issue, a popular concern in the space. I chose to… Read more Blockchain Scalability

Cognitive Computing - The Recent Breakthroughs and Discoveries

What is cognitive computing? We would like computing systems to be able to do exactly what humans can do – think for themselves, make judgement and decisions based on the information they have. The traditional systems have only been acting on instructions programmed into them; with tremendous speed and accuracy – better than the human… Read more Cognitive Computing - The Recent Breakthroughs and Discoveries

What is Workday?

You may have noticed that both Chris Cruz (CIO & CDT, State of CA) last week and Carl Eschenbach (Partner, Sequoia Capital and Ex-COO, VMware) this week, used Workday as an example of an innovative system. Carl even asked the audience who is familiar with the system and a few raised their hand. In an… Read more What is Workday?

Cloud-computing advantages and challenges from a business point of view

During last Friday lecture, we talked about several benefits of cloud-computing and the brand-new solutions it provides for information system users. For instance, Deputy Director & Deputy State CIO, Chris Cruz told us about the way cloud-computing had been a solution to save time and money while gathering the information of all departments on a… Read more Cloud-computing advantages and challenges from a business point of view

Application of Open Data by the City of Los Angeles Office

Last week, the CIO of the California Department of Technology mentioned that Open Data is one of the big technology initiatives that is facilitating the democratization data to the public for various use cases. The open data website mentions that “California believes in the power of unlocking government data. We believe the California open data… Read more Application of Open Data by the City of Los Angeles Office

How can companies seamlessly move to the cloud?

Cloud computing is growing to become the main infrastructure of handling both personal and enterprise computational work. The main advantages cloud computing is that it offers easy access of data and computational resources only at a subscription cost without the overhead of acquiring and maintaining your own infrastructure. Some major concerns are privacy and security… Read more How can companies seamlessly move to the cloud?

A Shift Towards Cloud Computing

Mr. Chris Cruz, Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the state of California shared his views on Cloud Computing for transparency to foster sharing and pooling of computing resources in the public sector. Mr. Chris Cruz talked about how the state of California´s motivation on transparency and its engagement towards it´s citizens to unlock government data… Read more A Shift Towards Cloud Computing