Ohio University students will now be able to access mental health care services from their fingertips as part of an interactive online therapy program known as Welltrack.
By Steve Rosenbush
The contours of the new information technology market are coming into sharper focus, as emerging technologies dominate spending. CIO Journal’s Angus Loten reports that worldwide information technology spending this year is expected to hit $3.7 trillion, up 4.5% over 2017, as firms look to capitalize on the potential of blockchain, Internet of Things, and, of course, the cloud. An acceleration in spending on artificial intelligence is building, too, according to the forecast by Gartner Inc.
Growth has accelerated. IT spending last year totaled $3.5 trillion, up 3.8% from 2016, Gartner said. This year’s larger gains come as businesses across all industries continue to shift IT spending away from data center systems and into cloud-powered software and services, according to John-David Lovelock, a Gartner research vice president.
The agenda. Spending on enterprise software is projected to reach $389 billion, up 9.5% from 2017, as corporate budgets channel more funds into software-as-a-service. Other big gains include spending on devices, expected to grow 5.6% over last year to $704 billion, and IT services, up 5.5% to $985 billion. By 2021, spending on AI will generate an estimated $2.9 trillion in new business value, according to Gartner. But spending on data center systems is expected to grow 0.6% this year, to $179 billion, before declining by 0.2% in 2019.
gShift, an industry leading web presence analytics and content performance technology vendor, has been accepted into the IBM Watson and Bluemix I3 program to further develop its use of machine learning and AI to, in turn, help marketers fully optimize their data-driven content marketing efforts. Specifically, gShift will be using IBM Watson’s Natural Language Understanding and Tone Analyzer solutions to further analyze selected content in order to derive insights and make recommendations regarding the optimization of the content and its distribution, as well as to develop competitive analysis opportunities.
Mariner is pleased to announce Anthony English, VP – Mariner Security Solutions has been appointed to the Standards Council of Canada (SCC) IT Security Techniques committee (MC/ ISO/IEC/JTC 1/SC 27). He will contribute his expertise to help build IT security standards for Canada.
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HALIFAX – Helping you think like a hacker will be the focus of Mariner’s upcoming cyber security course.
Ethical Hacking and Counter Measures will be a five-day program offered by Mariner Security Solutions at its Halifax office, starting November 27.
“This is a world class course, with a trainer live and in person, to help organizations defend themselves against hackers by understanding how they work,” said Paul Eisner, President of Mariner Innovations. “Ethical hacking is one of the hottest skills for information security professionals. By taking this course, you will be able to learn 270 attack technologies hackers are known to use.”
Eisner noted that by participating in the course, existing security professionals will also earn 30 continuing professional education (CPE) credits, which will support maintaining their certification.
Mariner is also announcing a full suite of security courses for 2018. Dedicated sessions for specific companies and other organizations can also be arranged.
As one of the largest independent information technology services firm in Atlantic Canada, Mariner has a proven track record of helping clients innovate beyond complexity. Since opening for business in 2003, Mariner has developed the top pool of senior hands-on executive talent, delivered advanced IT projects worth more than $2 billion and identified and deployed more than a million hours of skilled talent.
Gerry Pond is one of Atlantic Canada’s greatest entrepreneurship champions – an entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist and civic leader. As the Chairman and Co-Founder of Mariner Partners Inc., he has co-founded a number of successful ICT start-ups, including iMagicTV, Q1 Labs, Brovada Technologies, Radian6, Shift Energy and Cirrus9.
Statistics Canada recently released its latest GDP and related figures for 2016 and New Brunswick has performed surprisingly well.
Business capital spending is still very weak but household expenditures are up and overall GDP is up modestly over 2015. If you combine the GDP growth rates over the past two years, the provincial economy grew by 3.5 percent – above average among the 10 provinces.
A New Brunswick startup is helping professional sports teams bring a more experiential approach to their group ticket sales– and some big names are taking notice.
Tukan Das, CEO and co-founder of LeadSift – a company that generates leads by mining publicly available information – joins BNN to discuss the growth of the company and why it has no plans of moving its business outside of Canada.