Buzzword Talk – ‘Machine Learning’

  We hear the term Machine Learning so often. It has been immensely popular in the cyber world today. Machine learning is the technology which can make computers work without being explicitly programmed. It enables learning ability in information systems/...

Data Centers – an overview

Data centers are technical facilities composed of networked computers and storages that are used by organizations to store, manage, disseminate and process large amounts of data. Data centers house even the most critical systems which are extremely vital for business...

Buzzword Talk – ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT)

Let’s talk about ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) today. Term IoT has been coined by Kevin Ashton, a British technology pioneer. We can have a clear understanding of IoT through this quote by Ashton, from one of his published articles: “If we had computers that knew...

Checklists for Outsourcing Technical Support

Outsourcing is the business practice where a company (say company-X) hires another company (say company-Y), to perform certain tasks. These tasks might have been previously executed by the company-X’s employees itself. IT outsourcing is the use of external parties for...

Security Threats

In computing, security threats are possibilities of danger that might exploit a vulnerability to breach security, causing damage. The vulnerability is the weakness which allows an attacker to reduce a system’s information assurance; It occurs due to the presence of a...