Innovations as Catalysts for Growth Technological innovation is one of the fundamental instruments of growth to help developing countries lift themselves out of poverty. In the context of economic developments over recent decades, technological innovations draw exemplary inspirations from the Read more…
Context While there are a number of cloud service providers (CSPs) out there, it would be almost impossible to write an article like this with absolute neutrality and without referring to a real cloud platform. This article uses the Microsoft Azure Read more…
Overview If you’re old enough to recall PDP-11 minicomputers (even this term seem to be fading!) and similar multi-user computers running the Unix operating system – yes, famous at being multitasking multi-user operating system – you’ll no doubt remember a cluster of dumb terminals connected to a central computer for Read more…
1. Overview Cloud Computing is ushering in a new technological landscape by way of IT systems migration onto the cloud platform. Businesses and organizations, large and small, are increasingly in the process of moving their infrastructure and applications to the Read more…
Introduction The European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the most significant piece of data protection and privacy legislation with great impact on the IT industry. The legislation came into effect on 25th May 2018, and having just Read more…
Introduction With new technologies come new terminologies. As technology evolves, the words used in the context of that technology may also have a qualified meaning. This is usually out of necessity for terms or phrases to convey new concepts in Read more…
Disclosure: As a developer more familiar with Microsoft technologies, the descriptions and examples I present below are based on Azure: the Microsoft Cloud Services Platform. There are cloud service offerings from over a dozen well-known names including Adobe, Amazon, Google, IBM, Read more…
Background Overview Innovations based on scientific and technological knowledge have underpinned successful developments all over the world. These developments span from poverty-reduction efforts in developing countries to tackling some grand challenges in the industrialized world. Regardless of where the developmental Read more…
Technological changes have always created challenges to citizens and governments alike. While we can trace back such phenomenon to a century ago for automobiles and telephones, the Internet is the one technology with profound impact in instigating new challenges of Read more…
We are all becoming familiar with the phrase “disruptive technologies” nowadays which is in widespread use in connection with emerging technologies (e.g., cloud services) because these technologies do away with conventional on-premises deployment of services (e.g., servers and associated IT Read more…