By Nikhil Taneja, Managing Director-India, SAARC & Middle East, Radware According to a study by the Ponemon Institute in December 2018, bots comprised over 52% of all Internet traffic. While ‘good’ bots discreetly index websites, fetch information and content, and perform useful tasks for consumers and businesses, ‘bad’ bots have become a primary and growing…
AR, VR and 5G to enhance in-store customer experience by 2020: Gartner
Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) have the potential to shake up the customer experience by individualizing retailers’ offers and enabling customers to visualize products in different settings. By 2020, 100 million consumers will shop in AR online and in-store, according to Gartner. “Retailers are under increasing pressure to explain the purpose of physical…
Respond to Cybersecurity Incidents Faster, Smarter, Better
The rising complexities and scales of security threats require organizations to quickly hone their incident response (IR) skills. Security incidents are like fire incidents. You put all the prevention measures in place and are well-stocked with extinguishers to douse flames in case of an incident. Yet, the lack of a coordinated response could flare things…
Samsung C-Lab to Reveal Eight New AI Projects at CES 2019
Eight innovative new C-Lab projects as well as commercial products from eight spin-offs to be showcased. Samsung Electronics announced today that it will showcase eight innovative new projects related to Artificial Intelligence (AI), developed from its C-Lab (Creative Lab) program, from January 8 through 11 at CES 2019 Eureka Park. In addition, eight start-ups which…
How Tiny Fingernail Sensors and AI can help Monitoring Health and Disease Progression
Grip strength is a useful metric in a surprisingly broad set of health issues. It has been associated with the effectiveness of medication in individuals with Parkinson’s disease, the degree of cognitive function in schizophrenics, the state of an individual’s cardiovascular health, and all-cause mortality in geriatrics. At IBM Research, one of our ongoing challenges…
Narayana Provides Affordable and High-Quality Healthcare using Analytics and AI
“How much will the surgery cost?” This is one question that has haunted Dr. Devi Shetty, Founder and Chairman of Narayana Health since he began his practice in 1983. Even today, more than three decades and over 15,000 surgeries later, he dreads the question from his patients. “As healthcare providers, it is important that we…
IBM Expands Strategic Partnership with Samsung to Manufacture 7nm Chips for IBM CPUs
Agreement Expands 15-Year R&D Partnership to Define Leadership Roadmap for Semiconductor Industry. IBM today announced an agreement with Samsung to manufacture 7-nanometer (nm) microprocessors for IBM Power Systems, IBM Z and LinuxONE, high-performance computing (HPC) systems, and cloud offerings. The agreement combines Samsung’s industry-leading semiconductor manufacturing with IBM’s high-performance CPU designs. This combination is being…
Akamai Hits New High for Peak Web Traffic Delivered
World’s largest CDN exceeds 72 Tbps of data delivered; concludes record-setting year with another milestone. Akamai, the intelligent edge platform for securing and delivering digital experiences, has set a new record for peak traffic on its global content delivery network (CDN). On Tuesday, December 11, the volume of data being delivered across the Akamai network…
Microsoft to Build AI-ready Workforce using Intelligent Cloud Hub program
Microsoft will set up the core AI infrastructure and an IoT Hub for all selected campuses. The company will also offer a wide range of AI developmental tools and Azure AI Services such as Microsoft Cognitive Services, Azure Machine Learning and Bot Services. Training will include development workshops to help both the faculty and students…
McAfee MVISION portfolio added to CDM Approved product list
Federal customers can now access comprehensive and integrated device-to-cloud data protection and threat prevention capabilities from McAfee. McAfee announced the MVISION Portfolio Family of security technologies and McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been added to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) approved product list (APL) under the Continuous Diagnostics and…