Talk about data privacy in business today and you have experts speaking high of VPN implementation. So, what is VPN? The acronym for Virtual Private Network, VPN refers to a group of computers sharing various resources under “encapsulated” protection online. When one connects to VPN network, all data which are sent from his browsing device to private network would be thoroughly encrypted for optimum protection. The bottom line is a network-within-a-network yet given the encapsulation and…

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)  s a system that integrates complex machines with high-end software programs and sensors for analyzing data to increase productivity and reduce operational time and costs. IIoT systems differs from Internet of Things (IoT) systems. Failure in IIoT systems would lead to disastrous situations where as in IoT systems the failure would barely lead to emergency situations. IoT systems are designed at consumer level device such…

Summary: In this review of Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends report for 2016 we’ll look for the advanced analytics that makes these trends possible.

It’s that time of year again when Mary Meeker, the great seer of the internet once again releases her annual…

Today I want to write about two trends and how the collision of those trends is changing the world we live in.

The first trend is the internet of everything. Right now, we have electronics and sensors tracking the behavior of almost everything. And as a consequence of the increase in the number…

How does a company break into the huge potential marketplace that is the Industrial Internet? Spending on the Industrial Internet—the convergence of industrial machines, data, and the Internet (one aspect of the Internet of Things)—was $20 billion in 2012. Analysts are forecasting that number will reach $514 billion by 2020, creating nearly $1.3 trillion in value. MIT Sloan Management Review recently published a case study of one company that…

Another big part of the food supply comes from ranches and farms that raise and slaughter various livestock. While ranching is sometimes bundled with agriculture, I discussed farming in Big Data in Agriculture, so we’ll focus on ranching this time around. Somewhat surprising is that big data usage in ranching appears more limited than in farming. That said, there are a number of novel uses of technology and…