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New Global Study from LogicMonitor Reveals 61% of IT Professionals Lack Confidence in Ability to Deliver Digital Services During a Crisis

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 28, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A new global study from LogicMonitor examines how IT departments are evolving in a time of crisis to maintain business continuity and best meet the needs of their customers. LogicMonitor, the leading cloud-based provider of IT infrastructure monitoring, intelligence and observability, today released its Evolution of IT report, which is the result of a survey of 500 IT decision makers from across North America, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand during the COVID-19 pandemic. The report reveals a number of important trends, and identifies several IT challenges faced as countries and enterprises shut down physical offices and move operations online.
For example, the study found that 84% of global IT leaders are responsible for ensuring their customers’ digital experience, but nearly two-thirds (61%) do not have high confidence in their ability to do so. LogicMonitor’s research found that more than half (54%) of IT leaders experienced initial IT disruptions or outages with their existing software, productivity, or collaboration tools as a result of shifting to remote work in the first half of 2020. Within the Education sector, nearly a quarter (24%) of IT professionals stated that their employer did not have a business continuity plan in place to deal with the current crisis.Overall, 70% of IT professionals are finding it challenging to adapt to their new responsibilities of supporting a remote workforce. Respondents report significant concerns relating to security and stability; specific challenges experienced include the struggle to deal with outages remotely, and the network strain from the increase in remote employees using IT systems. These concerns represent a serious threat to the ability to deliver seamless digital experiences that consumers increasingly demand.“Maintaining business continuity is both more difficult and more important than ever in the era of COVID-19,” said Kevin McGibben, CEO and President of LogicMonitor. “IT teams are being asked to do whatever it takes — from accelerating digital transformation plans to expanding cloud services — to keep people connected and businesses running as many offices and storefronts pause in-person operations. Our research confirms that the time is now for modern enterprises to build automation into their IT systems and shift workloads to the cloud to safeguard IT resiliency.”IT teams lack confidence in their infrastructure’s resilienceBusiness continuity plans are integral to companies’ ability to withstand an unanticipated crisis. While LogicMonitor’s new study found that 86% of companies have a business continuity plan in place prior to COVID-19, 12% of respondents have minimal or no confidence at all in their organization’s plan to withstand an unanticipated crisis. Only 35% of respondents feel very confident in their plan.IT decision makers also expressed overall reservations about their IT infrastructure’s resilience in the face of a crisis. Globally, only 36% of IT decision makers feel that their infrastructure is very prepared to withstand a crisis. And while a majority of respondents (53%) are at least somewhat prepared to take on an unexpected IT emergency, 11% feel they are minimally prepared or believe their infrastructure will collapse under pressure.Learning from this crisis, IT decision makers report they’re investing in productivity tools and expanding the use of cloud-based solutions and platforms to maintain business continuity and serve customers during the global pandemic and into the future.Overall, 35% of organizations are investing additional funds in IT infrastructure monitoring, and 23% are investing in artificial intelligence and machine learning as ways to better cope with company-wide remote work policies.COVID-19 is dramatically accelerating cloud adoptionThe survey identified that 91% of respondents are working remotely and a full 78% said their entire company is working remotely. Indeed, 87% of IT leaders report COVID-19 is driving the need to work from home, which in turn is accelerating their migration to the cloud.Prior to COVID-19, IT professionals said 65% of their workload was in the cloud. However, just six months later, that number increased to 78%. With this in mind, 74% think it will take five years or less for more than 95% of all workloads to run in public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.While cloud migrations and usage soars, on-premises IT workloads are experiencing a substantial decline due perhaps in part to the global pandemic. Pre-COVID-19, 35% of workloads were housed on-premises. Now, IT professionals expect on-premises workloads to decrease to 22% by 2025.IT leaders are embracing automationThe benefits of IT automation have become increasingly clear in the first half of 2020: 50% of IT leaders who have a “great deal of automation” within their IT department also say they’re very confident in their ability to maintain continuous uptime and availability during a crisis.While the vast majority of IT decision makers (88%) say there has been a greater focus on automation in their department over the past three years, an even greater majority, 94%, say they expect this focus on automation to increase in the coming three years.In more normal times, IT leaders see automation as a business enabler that allows them to operate more efficiently and focus on innovating rather than keeping the lights on. 74% of IT leaders say they employ intelligent systems like artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide insight into the performance of their IT infrastructure. And 93% of IT leaders say automation is worthwhile because it allows IT leaders and their teams to focus on more strategic tasks and initiatives.However, although some IT professionals fear job loss due to automation, others view it as a saving grace when faced with the spectre of pandemic-related layoffs or budget cuts. Nearly three quarters (72%) of IT leaders believe that the automation of IT tasks would enable their department to operate effectively in the case of staff reduction.For more information on the global survey and its findings, please read LogicMonitor’s full Evolution of IT report.About LogicMonitor®Monitoring unlocks new pathways to growth. At LogicMonitor®, we expand what’s possible for businesses by advancing the technology behind them. LogicMonitor seamlessly monitors infrastructures, empowering companies to focus less on problem solving and more on evolution. We help customers turn on a complete view in minutes, turn the dial from optimization to innovation and turn the corner from sight to vision. For more information, visit www.logicmonitor.com.Contact
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Automotive Digital Cockpit Domain Controller Power Expected to Double by 2030

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NEW YORK, March 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The lengthening lifecycle of vehicles is driving automotive Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to plan several years of customer support through regular Over-the-Air (OTA) updates. Achieving this requires a digital Cockpit Domain Controller (CDC) with an architecture that supports long-term updating and maintenance. According to a new report from global technology intelligence firm ABI Research, the computing power of the CDC will increase significantly over the next few years, with graphical computing power and deep-learning processing power (for AI-powered functions) expected to double by 2030 for an average mid-market CDC.

OEMs are beginning to plan for several years of support, both in software patches and bug fixes, and for delivering new added value features to the driving experience. “This support and feature roadmap requires a hardware and software architecture that supports the continuous updating of vehicles over time. OEMs need a system that accommodates quick, targeted updates by shipping vehicles with planned overhead in computing power, software containerization, and robust hypervisors. These can be accommodated by silicon vendors such as NVIDIA or Qualcomm with their suite of high-powered System-on-Chips (SoCs), along with hypervisor and software specialists such as Blackberry QNX. The ecosystem hasn’t fully adjusted to OTA updates in mixed-criticality systems like the digital cockpit domain controller yet, with most OEMs speculating about the level of computing power that is needed for several years of support and few going to their silicon and tier-one partners with roadmaps of planned features,” explains Abu Miah, Smart Mobility and Automotive Analyst at ABI Research.
The computing power of the CDC will increase significantly over time. The Tera Floating-Point Operations per Second (TFLOPS) of an average mid-market CDC is expected to rise from 1 TFLOPS in 2023 to 2.5 TFLOPS by 2030. Miah adds, “One of the primary drivers of this increase is the implementation of a larger number of higher resolution screens in the vehicle to accommodate new high-end gaming and video-on-demand features.”
Building a ‘future-proofed’ CDC is not as simple as throwing compute power at the vehicle. “OEMs, tier ones, and silicon vendors must all work toward an ecosystem of hardware and software agnosticism, modular architecture, and collaborative software development if they are to match customers’ expectations of updates, patches, and bug fixes from the consumer electronics space,” Miah concludes.
These findings are from ABI Research’s Future-Proofing Digital Cockpit Domain Controllers application analysis report. This report is part of the company’s Smart Mobility and Automotive research service, which includes research, data, and ABI Insights. Based on extensive primary interviews, Application Analysis reports present an in-depth analysis of key market trends and factors for a specific technology.
About ABI Research
ABI Research is a global technology intelligence firm uniquely positioned at the intersection of technology solution providers and end-market companies. We serve as the bridge that seamlessly connects these two segments by providing exclusive research and expert guidance to drive successful technology implementations and deliver strategies proven to attract and retain customers.
ABI Research是一家全球性的技术情报公司,拥有得天独厚的优势,充当终端市场公司和技术解决方案提供商之间的桥梁,通过提供独家研究和专业性指导,推动成功的技术实施和提供经证明可吸引和留住客户的战略,无缝连接这两大主体。
For more information about ABI Research’s services, contact us at +1.516.624.2500 in the Americas, +44.203.326.0140 in Europe, +65.6592.0290 in Asia-Pacific, or visit www.abiresearch.com.
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ACL Digital in Collaboration with AWS and Infineon to Participate at Embedded World 2024

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SAN JOSE, Calif., March 28, 2024  /PRNewswire/ — ACL Digital, an ALTEN group company, is a pioneer in design-led digital experience, innovation, enterprise IT modernization, and product engineering services, announced that ACL Digital, in collaboration with AWS and Infineon, is going to showcase its AWS IoT & Cloud capabilities at Embedded World 2024, Hall 4 (Booth #4-552) from April 9 to April 11 in Nuremberg, Germany.

ACL Digital, a top-tier AWS Services partner, propels organizations of all sizes to navigate digital transformation to accelerate time-to-market. The company provides comprehensive support, from adopting to modernizing IT infrastructure on AWS. By leveraging expertise in architecture, security, migration, and operations, ACL Digital unlocks the full potential of AWS, streamlining IoT and cloud journeys and fast-tracking business growth and innovation.
The AWS Advanced Tier partnership enables ACL Digital to leverage AWS expertise, its robust support ecosystem and best practices to deliver customer delight.
ACL Digital offers visitors at Embedded World 2024 a chance to experience the exclusive demo of a Smart Stove Solution, built by leveraging the AWS Cloud and Infineon platform and how it has added value to our customers.
With over 100 AWS-certified experts, ACL Digital empowers clients to achieve breakthrough results in their digital transformation. Also, the leading digital transformation company supports global clients in navigating the complexities of cloud implementation, migration and digital transformation with ease and helping them unlock new growth opportunities.
About AWS
Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it now has more than 240 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, media, and application development, deployment, and management from 105 Availability Zones within 33 geographic regions, with announced plans for 12 more Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in Malaysia, New Zealand, Thailand, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit https://aws.amazon.com .
About Infineon
Infineon Technologies AG is a global semiconductor leader in power systems and IoT. Infineon drives decarbonization and digitalization with its products and solutions. The company has around 58,600 employees worldwide and generated revenue of about €16.3 billion in the 2023 fiscal year (ending 30 September). Infineon is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (ticker symbol: IFX) and in the USA on the OTCQX International over-the-counter market (ticker symbol: IFNNY). To learn more about Infineon, visit https://www.infineon.com/
About ACL Digital
ACL Digital an ALTEN Group Company, is a digital product innovation and engineering leader. We help our clients design and build innovative products (AI, Cloud, and Mobile ready), content and commerce-driven platforms, and connected, converged digital experiences for the modern world through a design-led Digital Transformation framework.
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, ACL Digital is a leader in design-led digital experience, innovation, enterprise modernization, and product engineering services converging to Technology, Media & Telecom. The company has a workforce of 57,000+ spread across more than 30+ countries.

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Gilbarco Veeder-Root champions fuel efficiency, clean fuels and diesel rebate solutions in mining

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JOHANNESBURG, March 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Global leader in technology solutions OEM Gilbarco Veeder-Root (GVR) is dedicated to enhancing operational performance by delivering comprehensive end-to-end wetstock, industrial, mining, and business-to-business solutions, all tailored to meet the specific needs of the customer.

 
 
By encompassing every aspect of mining operations, GVR commercial and industrial Middle East and Africa director Westtar Kapito says, “the company is setting new benchmarks for fuel efficiency, safety and sustainability within the mining industry”.
As part of a holistic approach to mining excellence, Kapito explains that Gilbarco’s integrated fuel and fleet management technology solutions are designed to address the multifaceted challenges of the mining industry.
Some of these facets include wetstock control, equipment maintenance and management, fleet management and automation, compliance monitoring and environmental sustainability, as well as driving productivity and profitability through innovation.
In addition, the introduction of Gilbarco’s clean fuel solution exemplifies the company’s commitment to maintaining equipment integrity and performance.
This technology, GVR says, monitors in real-time the status of up to 16 “clean fuels” key performance matrices, thereby ensuring that dirty fuel is flagged and not transferred into mining equipment which would affect engines and injectors and thus lower productivity.
Gilbarco’s comprehensive site automation solutions empower mining companies with critical data analytic insights, facilitating efficient monitoring and management of fleet and fuel inventory. Gilbarco’s dataFLEX360 platform plays a pivotal role, offering near real-time reporting and analytics to drive informed decision-making and operational agility.
dataFLEX360 is a Web-based, cloud-hosted strategic operational insights platform. The system ensures accurate, reliable and relevant reporting of all fuel, fleet and asset transactions, and provides for proactive corrective measures to reduce complex reporting and gives a consolidated and comprehensive view across all sites and assets.
With reconciliations at its core, dataFLEX360 provides solution accuracy on operational data.
Integral to the company’s solutions is compliance with Global Industry Standards and environmental stewardship, from leak detection to vapour recovery and clean fuel technologies. Gilbarco’s products are designed to ensure compliance and minimise the carbon footprint of mining operations.
Additionally, through the company’s innovative telematics technology and the data generated, it can systematically and seamlessly generate South African Revenue Services- (SARS-) compliant fuel rebate reports for any selected tax period.  
GVR’s technology provides a full audit trail required for eligibility for SARS rebates, and its reporting platform simplifies logbook and data gathering required, enabling successful rebate claims and return on investment.
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