The world’s farmland is in crisis. The earth is not creating enough new fertile soil to mitigate what our agricultural activity is losing. According to the U.N.’s Food and Agricultural Organization, the world’s topsoil could be depleted by 2080.   Scientists [See the full post…]

Climate change touches everything important to us, according to Dr. Renee Salas, and that includes our health and well-being. And perhaps there’s no clearer example of how we’re all bound together by the effects of climate change than the 2021 [See the full post…]

Interoperability across owned and rented IT systems is essential and a major challenge for IT departments evolving their hybrid multicloud operations. As more IT leaders ask for tighter integration between Red Hat OpenShift and Nutanix software, the two companies joined [See the full post…]

Rick Vanover handles product strategy at VEEAM, a backup and replication services firm. In this segment, learn about the service most companies hope they’ll never need. But Vanover says a good backup service is the best thing ever after a [See the full post…]

There are many parts of the solution to climate change from scientific research to each person’s daily lifestyle choices. Perhaps the most critical piece is getting the world’s industries to make carbon neutral or negative products, and to cut emissions [See the full post…]

Cybercrime has become a sophisticated enterprise. Hacking tools built on the latest technologies such as AI or hybrid cloud are available on the black market, where stolen data is also bought and sold. And digital tools used in cinema have [See the full post…]

There was a shortage of health care workers before COVID. Now that the dwindling labor pool is a top news headline, the realization has set in – which medical professionals were trying to communicate from the beginning of the pandemic [See the full post…]

BAE Systems contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense. It’s in the difficult business of handling military and intelligence secrets. And while there is a lot the company can’t talk about, there are plenty of useful insights they can share, [See the full post…]

Over 20 years ago the Institute of Medicine included “equitable” as one of six domains of quality, but when we talk about equity and quality today, we don’t often discuss them in tandem. To reach health improvement goals, that must [See the full post…]

Medicine has eluded the tech disruptions which seemingly overnight rewrote business models in media, telecommunications, transportation and other industries. That doesn’t mean healthcare is untouched by technology. Hospitals are keen on innovations for diagnosis and medical procedures such as AI [See the full post…]

One of the world’s biggest defense contractors, BAE Systems, has to navigate the world of cloud computing just like everyone else. But the stakes are much higher. The company not only provides weapons systems to the U.S. military but cybersecurity [See the full post…]

Parenting is a deeply personal journey with profound professional implications. And never has it been more important for employers to acknowledge and adopt strategies to help employees and their families navigate pregnancy, the baby years, and beyond. In this episode [See the full post…]

How can workplaces create equality, inclusion and belonging for LGBTQ+ employees? That’s the topic of this episode of the Business Group on Health Podcast, in which we speak with Beck Bailey, Managing Director of Inclusion & Diversity at Accenture. A [See the full post…]

If a child, family member or friend was in an accident tomorrow or had an organ failure, there’s a good chance United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) can help find a donor with the necessary attributes. Donated organs are managed [See the full post…]

For decades, the Ad Council has brought together the advertising industry to serve the social good through public service engagement; today, they’re providing critical information to Americans across the country about the COVID-19 pandemic, with a specific focus on building [See the full post…]

In July 2020, we spoke with Professor Mauro Guillén, author of 2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything, on the global factors influencing the next decade and the role of COVID-19 as an accelerant [See the full post…]

Restaurant owners and experts explain how the industry responded to the COVID-19 lockdown with technologies that keep them connected to customers. Two sisters, Shanny Covey and Deborah Mok, tell how they evolved their central California coast restaurants through the pandemic. [See the full post…]

New innovations can quickly become IT sweethearts, but what’s best for the business remains the overriding factor for deployment. The emergence of cloud native was born from developers needing to flexibly deploy resources and reconfigure them as needed. “That’s why [See the full post…]

In the real world, infrastructure is railroads, highways and power grids. In the digital world, infrastructure is servers, networks and data centers. Rajiv Ramaswami is a man of both worlds. He grew up on India’s national railway system, which employed [See the full post…]

Purpose-driven companies aren’t just important, they’re also a growing trend, says Bill Novelli, author of Good Business: The Talk, Fight, Win Way to Change the World. And in order to compete for talent and succeed in the world today, businesses [See the full post…]

IT leaders are hungry for cloud native technologies but struggle to find expertise because Cloud Native is nascent. SUSE and Udacity team up to feed the need by creating courses to train the next wave of engineers. In this Cloud [See the full post…]

The COVID-19 pandemic proved that video conferencing could sustain businesses even if workers couldn’t work from their company’s office. It also peaked interest in VR, AR and other technologies that will shape the future of work. In this Tech Barometer [See the full post…]

For more than a year we’ve upended our daily lives and altered our behavior to avoid contracting the coronavirus. Post-vaccination, why are we uncertain and even anxious about taking off masks around other vaccinated people, sending our kids back to [See the full post…]

Tech innovations aren’t enough to keep companies ahead of the curve. Their stakeholders need to buy in to new approaches and skills, according to Brent Schroeder, CTO of SUSE. Follow the enterprise cloud tech revolution at The Forecast by Nutanix.

Automation technologies have evolved rapidly in recent years and they’re helping IT pros manage more things across their data centers. In this tech Barometer podcast interview, Rahul Kelkar, Global Head of Product Management at Digitate and Tarak Parekh, director of [See the full post…]