Technology at the helm in the Volvo Ocean Race

It was during the brutal seventh leg of the around-the-world Volvo Ocean Race in March 2018 when the unthinkable happened. The 65-foot ocean yacht Scallywag, Hong Kong’s first-ever entry into the grueling race held every three years, was 1,400 nautical miles west of Cape Horn and slicing through rough seas, high winds, and driving rain…

Pilot Flying J digitally transforms the truck stop

From agriculture to industrial manufacturing, no business is impervious to digital disruption. So it should come as no surprise that even the truck stop is ripe for digital transformation. Pilot Flying J, owner and operator of 750 travel centers in 43 U.S. states and six Canadian provinces, is looking to the internet of things (IoT),…

6 most-dreaded IT projects

The projects that most IT professionals dread are the thankless yet essential tasks that garner little acknowledgment or respect. Patch management isn’t glamorous, but fail to keep up and your organization could suffer a massive security breach. Cloud migration projects aren’t often sexy, but running email servers on premises in 2018 is a bit like…